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Thu 22 Oct 1992

Calls: SCIL-5, Children's lg ,Discourse analysis

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 SCIL-5
 April 17-18,
 1993
	The Fifth Student Conference in Linguistics
is accepting abstracts in all areas of linguistics.
Abstracts must be received by Friday, Dec. 18, 1992.
Abstracts will be accepted by e-mail or by post. Send
e-mail abstracts to "scil5u.washington.edu". Send
posted abstracts to:	SCIL-5 Conference Committee
			Dept. of Linguistics, GN-40
			University of Washington
			Seattle, WA 98195
All abstracts should be one page in length and contain
the following information (on a separate card for posted
abstracts): 1) your name, 2) the title of you paper, 3)
your affiliation, 4) your e-mail and regular mail addresses,
5) a daytime telephone number. Papers should be appropriate
for 30 min. presentation period, and will be followed by a
10 min. question/answer period. All accepted papers will
be published in a special volume of the MIT working papers
in linguistics. A hard copy of each paper will be required
at the conference (no more than 15 pages in length).
Participants will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1993.

 Call for Papers

 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics

 Pre-Session:

 BEYOND ACQUISITION:
 LANGUAGE PRACTICES OF OLDER CHILDREN

 March 10, 1993

Organizers:
Susan Hoyle
Georgetown University

Carolyn Temple Adger
University of Maryland

 Most studies of language in interaction have focused on the
talk of adults, including, most recently, the elderly. In
addition, a rapidly growing body of research is expanding our
understanding of the pragmatic and discourse competence of young
children. Only a few researchers, however, are investigating the
language practices of older children and adolescents. Attention
to this neglected population is essential to a complete
understanding of the dimensions along which language use can
vary. This session will explore the ways that those in this age
group construct their social worlds through linguistic
interaction in a variety of natural settings, addressing such
theoretical and methodological issues as:

--What is distinctive about the language of this population?

--What are appropriate models for investigating the language of
this age group (e.g., language contact, flawed adult model,
interlanguage model)?

--Does this population constitute a "group"?

--What are barriers to investigation of this population.

20-minute papers are solicited on these or any related topics.
Send 1-page abstract by Jan. 15, 1993 to:

Susan Hoyle
Dept. of Linguistics
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057

e-mail: s_hoyleguvax (Bitnet) or s_hoyleguvax.georgetown.edu
(Internet)

Please include name, address, telephone number, and e-mail
address (if applicable). Electronic submissions are encouraged.

 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

 DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: WRITTEN TEXTS

 March 9, 1993

 Pre-session to the
 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
 March 11-13, 1993
 Washington, DC

Abstracts are invited for individual papers to be part of a one-day
multidisciplinary pre-conference session on DISCOURSE ANALYSIS:
WRITTEN TEXTS. Contributions from the fields of linguistics
(including sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied
linguistics), anthropology, sociology, psychology, cognitive sciences,
speech pathology, and communication studies are welcome. Papers
investigating issues of INTERTEXTUALITY, the ways in which relations
are established and maintained between written texts and how these are
used by the reader to (re)construct a (the writer's?) meaning, are
especially encouraged, but papers taking a discourse-level approach to
any aspect of written texts or to the comparison of written and spoken
texts are welcome.

Papers will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes' discussion time.
Send three copies of an anonymous one-page abstract along with a 3"x5"
card containing the title of your paper, your name, address, and
institutional affiliation to:

 Heidi E. Hamilton
 Department of Linguistics
 ICC 453
 Georgetown University
 Washington, DC 20057-1068

 tel: 202/687-6226
 301/294-1670

 e-mail: hhamiltonguvax.bitnet
 hhamiltonguvax.georgetown.edu

 Deadline for receipt of abstracts: January 15, 1993