LINGUIST List 23.69 Wed Jan 04 2012 Calls: General Linguistics/Canada Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Rennie Gonsalves , Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Message 1: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Date: 02-Jan-2012 From: Rennie Gonsalves <lacus.treasurergmail.com> Subject: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Short Title: LACUS Date: 08-Aug-2012 - 11-Aug-2012 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Contact Person: Rennie Gonsalves Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://lacus.weebly.com Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce that the 2012 annual meeting of LACUS will be held August 8-11, 2012, at York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the western end of Lake Ontario. Conference theme: Language Varieties Call for Papers: LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas. The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: Cognitive approaches to language varieties Computational and corpus approaches Critical discourse approaches Language contrast Language varieties in multimedia Language varieties in forensic linguistics Language varieties in clinical linguistics Language varieties and genre Language varieties in teaching second and foreign languages, especially EFL and ESL Neurolinguistic approaches Stratificational modelling of language varieties Systemic functional approaches Text and context varieties in graphology, phonology, grammar, lexis, discourse, modality, ontology, historical varieties, institutional varieties, regional varieties, and social varieties The full Call for Papers is now available on the LACUS website at: http://lacus.weebly.com/2012-call-for-papers.html The deadline for submission is January 31, 2012. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Jan-2012       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.