LINGUIST List 9.1796

Thu Dec 17 1998

Calls: Endangered Languages, Sociolinguistics

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. rblight, Student Conference in Linguistics
2. Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS

Student Conference in Linguistics 11
Special Theme: Endangered Languages
Keynote Speaker: Jonathan David Bobaljik

May 8-9, 1999
The University of Texas at Austin

The 11th annual Student Conference in Linguistics will be held at The
University of Texas at Austin May 8-9, 1999. SCIL is a student-run
conference which aims to bring together graduate students from around the
world to present their research and build connections with other students.
The proceedings are published in the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

We invite original, unpublished work in any area of linguistics. We would
particularly like to encourage submissions which focus on endangered or
underdescribed languages, in keeping with the conference theme.

Guidelines for Submission:

Please submit ten copies of a one-page, 500-word, anonymous abstract for a
twenty-minute paper (optionally, one additional page for data and/or
references may be appended), along with a 3" by 5" card with:

 (1) your name,
 (2) your affiliation,
 (3) your address, phone number, and e-mail address,
 (4) the title of the paper, and
 (5) an indication of which subdivision of linguistics best describes the
topic (e.g., Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics,
Anthropological Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics,
etc.)

The abstract should be as specific as possible, and it should clearly
indicate the data covered, outline the arguments presented, and include any
broader implications of the work.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 5:00 PM, February 15, 1999. Send
abstracts to:

SCIL 11 Abstract Committee
Department of Linguistics
501 Calhoun Hall
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712

E-mail abstracts will be accepted. Please email us or consult our web page
for detailed instructions. Email abstracts should be submitted to
scilccwf.cc.utexas.edu by 5:00 PM, February 15, 1999.

Further information is available at http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~scil/index.html

Questions can be directed to scilccwf.cc.utexas.edu

- Ralph C. Blight
Department of Linguistics,
The University of Texas at Austin
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~gizzmo/index.html

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Status: R

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL (UWE, Bristol)
CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES (CES), FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND EUROPEAN STUDIES 
(LES) 
& SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (ESS) 

Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000
The Interface between Linguistics and Social Theory

27-29 April 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000 is the thirteenth meeting of the 
Sociolinguistics Symposium which meets once every two years. This conference 
will focus primarily on the Interface between Linguistics and Social Theory, 
and it is hoped the meeting will contribute to further cooperation between 
the two disciplines. The conference welcomes papers from a range of different 
subject areas such as: language variation and change, language and gender, 
language and the media, discourse analysis, languages in contact, creole 
linguistics, intercultural communication, language and migration, social 
stratification of language, language development and other related topics.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

Professor Jack Chambers (Toronto): Leaders and laggers in the diffusion of 
changes 
Professor David Corson (Toronto) Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social 
Philosophy for Sociolinguistics 
Professor Pieter Muysken (Leiden): Radical Modularity and the Possibility 
of SocioLinguistics
Professor Shana Poplack (Ottawa): The Social Context of Linguistic Variation 
(working title) 
Professor Ruth Wodak (Vienna): Does Sociolinguistics need Social Theory? 
New Perspectives in Critical Discourse Analysis

PROVISIONAL TITLES OF COLLOQUIA

 Language, Nationalism and Minority Rights
 Multilingualism and Migration
 Intercultural Communication
 Language Contact along the Language Frontier
 Discourse

Suggestions for other colloquia are welcome (see deadline for applications 
on the back of this page).

COMMITTEE 

Professor Michael Scriven (Dean,LES,UWE, Bristol) 
Professor Alison Assiter (Dean, ESS,UWE, Bristol) 
Mr Felix Bihlmeier (Associate Dean (Resources), LES, UWE, Bristol) 
Dr Susan Price (Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) of LES, UWE, Bristol) 
Dr Carmen Arnaiz (UWE, Bristol) 
Mrs Kate Beeching (UWE, Bristol) 
Mr John Bird (UWE, Bristol) 
Professor Jim Coleman (University of Portsmouth) 
Professor Nikolas Coupland (University of Cardiff) 
Dr Aidan Coveney (University of Exeter) 
Dr Helmut Daller (UWE, Bristol) 
Professor Roy Harris (University of Oxford)
Dr Stephen May (University of Bristol) 
Dr Tom Osborne (University of Bristol)
Dr Mark Sebba (University of Lancaster) 
Dr Sali Tagliamonte (University of York) 
Dr Jeanine Treffers-Daller (UWE, Bristol) 
Mr Jem Thomas (UWE, Bristol) 
Dr Glyn Williams (University of Wales at Bangor)

DEADLINES

 The deadline for proposals of colloquia is: 1 June 1999.
 
 The deadline for submission of abstracts is: 1 September 1999.

Abstracts are welcomed for oral presentation (20 mins + 10 mins discussion) 
or poster presentation. Please send 4 hard copies, one of which contains 
your name and address, as well as an electronic version (Rich Text Format) 
of the abstract to the address given below.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

More information about the conference programme, the venue and the general 
organisation of the event can be found either on our website:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/research/sociling2000.html

or at our addresses/numbers below:

Jessa Karki/Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Centre for European Studies (CES)
Faculty of Languages and European Studies
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane
Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK
E-mail:Jessa.Karkiuwe.ac.uk (administrative matters) 
	Jeanine.Treffers-Dalleruwe.ac.uk (academic affairs)
Tel: ++ 44 117 976 3842, ext 2724, Fax: ++44 117 976 2626