LINGUIST List 8.739

Fri May 16 1997

Calls: TESOL, Chinese

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <seelylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. ENGSPEAK, TESOL
2. David Prager Branner, Local Language in Local Chinese Culture

Call for Proposals
NYS TESOL Conference, November 21-23, 1997 
Rye Town Hilton, Rye, NY 

Deadline for proposals has been extended to June 10, 1997. 

Please email Cynthia Wiseman engspeakaol.com for proposal
forms...send the fax number or name and address for snail mail.

Papers, wkshps, demos, panels, comm. presentations, poster sessions
welcome.
 

Abstracts are being accepted for a panel to be submitted to the Association
for Asian Studies, on "Local Language in Local Chinese Culture" to be held
at the AAS annual meeting in Wash. DC, 26-29 March, 1998. 

Preference will be given to papers presenting concrete descriptive material
from specific parts of China, but without sacrificing accessibility to a
non-specialist audience. The goal of this panel is to investigate the
regional texture and colloquial color of the weave that makes up that broad
fabric called the Chinese language.

All presentations must be given in English, and conform to the usual AAS
specifications. Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words to

 David Prager Branner or Richard VanNess Simmons
<yuen.ren.societybigfoot.com> <rsimmonrci.rutgers.edu>

by 10 July, 1997. Our regular mail addresses are:

David Prager Branner Richard VanNess Simmons
Asian Languages & Literature East Asian Languages and Cultures
Box 353521 Scott Hall, Room 330
University of Washington Rutgers University
Seattle, WA 98195-3521 USA New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA

FAX: (206)-633-5501 FAX: (908) 932-7926


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