LINGUIST List 22.4477 Wed Nov 09 2011 Calls: Discourse Analysis, Socioling, Pragmatics, Applied Ling/Poland Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Janusz Badio , Talk, Action, Interaction Message 1: Talk, Action, Interaction Date: 09-Nov-2011 From: Janusz Badio <jbadiouni.lodz.pl> Subject: Talk, Action, Interaction E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Talk, Action, Interaction Short Title: TAI Date: 03-Oct-2012 - 05-Oct-2012 Location: Łódź, Poland Contact Person: Janusz Badio, Kamila Ciepiela Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/action Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2012 Meeting Description: Talk, Action, Interaction (TAI 2012) 3-5 October 2012 Chair of English & General Linguistics University of Lodz, Poland The aim of the conference is to provide a multilingual, international platform for exploration and exchange of research findings, perspectives, and experience in the field of discourse and conversation analysis across communicative and cultural contexts. The event will bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, and students concerned with the analysis of language in use. Special emphasis will be given to empirical research on manifestation of mental representations in interaction. Plenary Speakers (confirmed): Prof. Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands Prof. Anna Cieślicka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Prof. Jean-Rémi Lapaire, University of Bordeaux, France Prof. Sue Widdicombe, University of Edinburgh, UK Prof. Robin Wooffitt, University of York, UK Venue: Lodz University Conference Centre Address: ul. Kopcińskiego 16-18, 90 -232 Łódź http://www.csk.uni.lodz.pl/en Registration: All participants are asked to register for the conference using a registration form at http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/action. Participants without a paper are asked to register with their affiliation details. More information on registration, conference fees, travel and accommodation can be found on our website. Call for Papers: We invite papers on all topics related to how mental representations get surfaced, performed, and accomplished in interactional contexts including, but not limited to: - Goals, intentions and commitments in communication - Non-linguistic interaction in communication - Gestures as a communicative system - Natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken language - Multimodal interaction - Meaning in institutional contexts - Interaction in a foreign language - Identities as discursive-performative/multiple/fragmented/constructed and negotiated/narrated/etc. - Categorization and personal identity - Construal of meaning - Identity and bilingualism - Identity and foreign language learning/teaching - Identity and belonging - Discourse analysis - Conversation analysis Abstracts: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by 15 June 2012. Abstracts should be registered via the web page: www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/action/form_registration.php Only plain text will be accepted by the web page, so abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). The length of the presentation will be limited to 20 minutes with a 10 minute discussion following each. Publication: Selected conference papers will be eligible (subject to conditions) for publication with Peter Lang Organising Committee: Kamila Ciepiela (Chair) Janusz Badio (Chair) Edward Lowczowski (secretary) Deadlines: 15 June 2012: Abstracts due 30 June 2012: Notification of acceptance 30 September 2012: All conference fees due 15 September 2012: Final program 3-5 October 2012: Conference Contact: jbadiouni.lodz.pl kciepielawp.pl http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/action Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Nov-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.