LINGUIST List 14.2334

Thu Sep 4 2003

Calls: General Ling/Malaysia; Syntax/Semantics

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  • Hazidi, Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities
  • carlo.cecchetto, Snippets

    Message 1: Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities

     Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:02:14 -0700
    From: Hazidi <scribetm.net.my>
    Subject: Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities


    SoLLs.INTEC.03 International Conference: Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities Date:16-18 December 2003

    Venue: Hotel Marriot Putrajaya Organizer: School of language Studies and Linguistics Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

    Keynote Address YAB Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed

    Plenary Speakers: Abdul Rahman Embong (Malaysia) Alastair Pennycook (Australia) Awang Had Salleh (Malaysia) Farish Noor (Malaysia) Ibrahim Bajunid (Malaysia) Joseph Lo Bianco (Australia) Niyi Osundare ( Nigeria) Wang Gung Wu (Singapore)

    Language and Nationhood: Confronting New Realities The Conference is organized by the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. The conference aims to create an international platform where pertinent issues and ideas related to language and nationhood in the face of new realities may be foregrounded, explored, examined, and discussed. It will be the stage for discussions in the areas of language, literature, linguistics, culture, education, communication, technology, and translation.

    Objectives � To explore how language can play a meaningful role in confronting the new realities of the 21st century that impact on the process of nation building and the concept of nationhood. � To provide a forum for sharing and learning the latest ideas and developments related to the role of language in developing concepts of nationhood. � To gain insights into the complexities of the interface between language and nationhood experienced elsewhere in the world.

    Topic Areas This conference encourages the discussion of the following issues in the contexts of language education, culture and communication, linguistics as well as literature and society in the following topic areas: . changing constructs of nationhood . language policies . language and literature curricula . language learning and teaching . teacher education . national, vernacular and religious school systems . the duality of public and private educational systems . linguistic imperialism in global communication . communication management ( print, media, IT, etc.) . diplomatic discourse . language of international relations/business . translation of foreign languages to communicate across cultures . identity construction . imperialism/hegemony . representation and misrepresentation . imagined communities . hybridization . language and cognition . standard English or varieties of English . national or sectional literatures . the rise of the cyber generation . language maintenance . language and gender . linguistic issues

    Presentation Format Presentations may be in the form of paper presentations, workshops, demonstrations, panel discussions, poster or multimedia presentations. All enquiries concerning the SOLLS conference should be sent to:

    The Secretariat SoLLs.INTEC.03 School of Language Studies & Linguistics Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 Bangi, Selangor Malaysia Contact numbers: Ms. Shahizah: 603-89216494 Ms. Norizan: 603-89216580 Dr. Ruzy: 603-89216481 Prof. Zawiah: 012-2965267 Fax :603-89254577 E-mail:sollspkrisc.cc.ukm.my

    Message 2: Snippets

     Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 07:20:55 +0000
    From: carlo.cecchetto <carlo.cecchettounimib.it>
    Subject: Snippets


    Snippets

    Call Deadline: 1-October-2003

    Issue 7 of the syntax/semantics minijournal SNIPPETS has now joined the earlier issues on the website http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/index.html. The next submission deadline is

    * October 1, 2003 *

    As usual, submissions are to be sent to the address snippetsunimi.it (relevant excerpts from the SNIPPETS editorial statement follow).

    Contents of SNIPPETS Issue 7:

    Elissa Flagg. Against heterogenous origins for _n't_ and _not_.

    Danny Fox and Jon Nissenbaum. VPP ellipsis and the position of adverbs.

    Naomi Harada. No head raising in light verb constructions.

    Shigeto Kawahara, Makoto Kadowaki and Kazuko Yatsushiro. A gap in the interpretation of embedded tense in Japanese.

    Feng-shi Liu. Definite NPs and telicity in Chinese.

    Excerpts from the SNIPPETS Editorial Statement: 1. Purpose

    The aim of Snippets is to publish specific remarks that motivate research or that make theoretical points germane to current work. The ideal contribution is the ideal footnote: a side remark that taken on its own is not worth lengthy development but that needs to be said. ... 2. Content

    We will publish notes that contribute to the study of syntax and semantics in generative grammar. The notes are to be brief, self-contained and explicit. They may do any of the following things: - point out an empirical phenomenon that goes against accepted generalizations or that shows that some aspect of a theory is problematic; - point out unnoticed minimal pairs that fall outside the scope of any existing theory; - point out an empirical phenomenon that confirms the predictions of a theory in an area where the theory has not been tested; - explicitly describe technical inconsistencies in a theory or in a set of frequently adopted assumptions; - explicitly describe unnoticed assumptions that underlie a theory or assumptions that a theory needs to be supplemented with in order to make desired predictions; - call attention to little-known or forgotten literature in which issues of immediate relevance are discussed.

    3. Submission details

    Snippets is an electronic journal. We solicit submissions twice a year: the submission deadlines are April 1 and October 1. The submissions that we accept are posted on the journal website approximately 3 months after each deadline, and all accepted submissions remain permanently on the website.

    Snippets is intended as a service to the linguistics community. Consequently, authors are advised that, when they submit to Snippets, we understand them as allowing their submission to be reproduced if published. At the same time, the rights for the notes themselves will remain with the authors. As a result, citation of Snippets material will have to indicate the author's name and the specific source of the material.

    We will accept electronic submissions at the address snippetsunimi.it. Electronic submissions may take the form of (a) the text of an e-mail message, or (b) an attached file. The attached file should be a simple text file, a Word file (Mac or Windows), or a Rich Text Format (RTF) file. All submissions must state the name and affiliation of the author(s), and a (postal or electronic) return address.

    Submissions are to be a maximum of 500 words (including examples), with an additional half page allowed for diagrams, tables and references... We will not consider abstracts.

    4. Editorial policy

    Submissions will be reviewed by our editorial board, and review will be name-blind both ways.