LINGUIST List 9.78

Sun Jan 18 1998

Calls: 1998 NIC Symposium, SLE 98 St. Andrews

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1. Tong Youhua, 1998 NIC Symposium
2. abraham, SLE 98 St. Andrews

		1998 NIC SYMPOSIUM ON INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

			November 25-27, 1998 G\246teborg, Sweden
 	
		 		Hosted by 
		The Department of Linguistics, G\246teborg University
		(with support by KIM and the Immigrant Institute in Bor\229s)


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# Background #
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The Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication (NIC) was founded in
1994 for the promotion of intercultural research and education in the
Nordic and Baltic countries. The objectives of NIC are to support active
interaction and to support information exchange concerning higher education
and research projects in the Nordic countries, and in the new, Baltic
countries. In addition, NIC supports development of research and training
in intercultural communication in different locations. 

The present activities of NIC include mainly:

\183 to hold annual symposia or conferences on intercultural communication 
\183 to keep an address list of interested researchers and organizations
\183 to maintain an internet based forum for discussion. 

The first NIC symposium on Intercultural Communication was held in 1994, in
Stavanger, Norway, subsequently symposia have been held in Jyv\228skl\228,
Finland, November 1995; in Aalborg, Denmark, November 1996; and in Tartu,
Estonia, November 1997.

The Fifth NIC Annual Conference on Intercultural Communication will take
place in G\246teborg, Sweden, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at
G\246teborg University, Sweden and supported by KIM (Inderdisciplinary center
for research on Cultural and Intercultural Migration) and the Immigrant
Institute in Bor\229s.	


 		 
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# First Call for Papers #
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The 1998 NIC Symposium on Intercultural Communication Committee now
invites all prospective participants to send abstracts of proposed papers
or full papers, research-in-progress papers, and proposals for panels or
other activities pertaining to the conference. 

The main theme suggested for the 1998 NIC Symposium will be "Intercultural
Communication through Multimodal Media", which may include Spoken
Intercultural Communication, Nonverbal Intercultural Communication, Long
Distance Intercultural Communication (e.g. telephone, email, Internet),
etc. The following and other suggested topics are also welcome. 
 
1. ICC and the Internet
2. Political Rhetoric	 
3. Intercultural Conflict Handling
4. Spoken language and ICC
5. Intercultural Business Communication
6. Educational Aspects of ICC 
7. ICC and Nonverbal Communication
8. ICC and Sign-Language 
9. Immigration and ICC
10. Managing Cultural diversity
 

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# Submission of abstracts (deadline: June 1, 1998) #
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Please prepare your abstract within 250 words. The abstract should contain
the title, name(s) and address(es) of the author(s), e-mail address, and
fax numbers of the author to whom the acceptance/rejection notice should be
sent. The abstract for each presentation should be received by June 1,
1998. Please send your abstract to one of the following addresses.

Jens Allwood, G\246teborg university, Department of Linguistics 
Box 200, SE 405 30 G\246teborg, SWEDEN 
Email address: jensling.gu.se Fax: +46 (0)31 773 4853 

Youhua Tong, G\246teborg university, Department of Linguistics 
Box 200, SE 405 30 G\246teborg, SWEDEN
Email address: youhualing.gu.se Fax: +46 (0)31 773 4853 

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# Paper presentation #
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The Symposium committee will select papers for presentation and
will organize the final program and inform you whether or not your paper
proposal is accepted by September 1998. If your paper proposal is accepted,
you will be invited to present a paper for about twenty minutes. Please
note that the working language of the conference is English. 


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# Publication of papers #
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Publication of papers will be considered according to various circumstances
as well as conditions of funding at a later stadium of the conference
organization. Decisions concerning publication will be announced later at
the Web homepage for the 1998 NIC Symposium at the following address:


http://www.ling.gu.se/events/icc98reg.html
 



 
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# Registration (deadline: August 31, 1998) #
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Payment received before August 31, 1998

Students: 	300 SEK
Nonstudents: 	700 SEK 

Payment received after August 31, 1998

Students: 	400 SEK
Nonstudents:	800 SEK

	
	WELCOME TO THE 1998 NIC SYMPOSIUM ON 
	INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ! 

Invitation

to Workshop during the 31st SLE Conference
at St. Andrews, 26-30 August, 1998

Workshop organizer: Werner Abraham, Groningen
(E-mail: ABRAHAMLET.RUG.NL, FAX: +31-50-363 58 21)

Workshop topic: `Spoken and written languages; their structural and
typological differeences'

The workshop aims at presentations in the following subfields to the
general title: parsing strategies divided between spoken and written
vernaculars; typological differences and historical changes initiated
by parsing rather than logical-structu- ral triggers (such as, as the
underwritten himself will claim in a contribution to the workshop, the
Upper German preterite decay); typological differences be- tween
genetically closely related languages such as Afrikaans, Yiddish and
dial- ectal Germans (more or less strongly svo) vs. written German
(sov); what me- diates between sov and svo other than (Charles Fries'
claim) distinctions of mor- phological case? It will be shown in the
paper referred to above that distinctions of a discourse-functional
sort and their prerequsites in structural terms (wide middle field!)
can contribute to the upkeeping of sov despite the fact that case
morphology is rather weak (dialectal German and Dutch).

Organization: (especially younger) colleagues interested should
contact organizer at Groningen with an abstract covering an adjacent
topic no longer than one page (for a 20-30 minutes presentation). The
intention is to submit a collection of the- matically unified papers
to FoL as a self-contained volume.

Heed: To attend the conference you need to be a member of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea. Please contact the local organizers,
Dr. Christopher Beedham and Dr. Isabel Forbes, Dept. of German,
School of Modern Languages, The University, St. Andrews, Fife KY16
9PH, Scotland/UK, cb1st-and.ac.uk, FAX (01334) 46 36 77, home page:
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/modlangs/SLE98/SLE98.html

Mail to: Werner Abraham, Duits-Letteren-RUG, Oude Kijk in 't Jat
Straat 26, NL-9712 EK Groningen