LINGUIST List 15.1612

Fri May 21 2004

Calls: General Ling/Spain; Language Learning/Journal

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    Message 1: Conference on German Contrastive Linguistics and Literature

     Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 05:56:41 -0400 (EDT)
    From: fipaylim <fipaylimvh.ehu.es>
    Subject: Conference on German Contrastive Linguistics and Literature


    Conference on German Contrastive Linguistics and Literature Short Title: GECOLILI

    Date: 15-Dec-2004 - 17-Dec-2004 Location: Seville, Spain Contact: Miguel Ayerbe Contact Email: fipaylimvh.ehu.es

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Subject Language: German, Standard ,Spanish

    Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2004

    Meeting Description:

    The Conference is organized by the Research Group ''Filologia Alemana'' (''German Philology'') of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Seville (www.us.es/gfilalem). To this group belong researchers of both German Linguistics and Literature.

    This is the third edition of the Conference on ''German Contrastive Linguistics and Literature''. Papers presented in the last editions have been published each time in a special issue of the Journal ''Estudios Filologicos Alemanes'' (www.us.es/restfa). This journal, devoted to contributions about German Linguistics and Literature, appears once a year (see the Web for more details and/or subscription).

    The Conference will take place on December (15th-17th) at the University of Seville with the participation of professors and scholars from other Universities in Spain and from abroad.

    The Conference Commitee welcomes papers (20 min. + discussion) and lectures (40 min. + discussion) concerning aspects of German Linguistics and Literature in contrast with other languages and cultures, according to the subtitle of the Conference ''Alemania y otras culturas'' (''Germany and other worlds'').

    Paticipants are invited to present a paper or a lecture about one of the following subfields:

    -Phonology -Morphology -Syntax -Semantics and Pragmatics -Sociolinguistics -History of the Language -Computational Linguistics -Language Teaching -Early German Literature -Medieval German Literature -Modern German Literature -German Literature after 1945 -Translation -Others

    It is very important to focus the paper / lecture on German Linguistics / Literature in contrast with other languages or literatures.

    Further information about the Conference and accomodation will be provided next September.

    People interested in participating in the Conference are required to reach the contact person in order to get (through E-Mail) the registration form. Registration form and payment of fees must be submitted before next September the 10th.

    Participation fees:

    -Presenting a paper or lecture: 50 European Euro -Participants without paper / lecture: 30 European Euro -Students: 15 European Euro

    Message 2: Language Learning

     Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:21:17 -0400 (EDT)
    From: aguiora <aguioraumich.edu>
    Subject: Language Learning


    Language Learning

    Call Deadline: 31-DEC-2010 From: the General Editor, LANGUAGE LEARNING A Journal of Research in Language Studies http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ll

    In our continuing desire to widen the scope of LANGUAGE LEARNING, but without giving up our core identity, we wish to actively encourage and invite submission of manuscripts that treat the broad area of cognitive neuroscience of language acquisition and language processing.

    The language sciences, as part of the sciences of human behavior are facing daunting new challenges in the questions raised and in the ways these questions are answered. The questions lie at the interface of the life sciences and the social sciences and humanities, and represent substantial challenges both at the empirical and theoretical levels. The issues are deceptively simple: What questions to ask, how to look for answers and how to communicate the results of this quest.

    John Schumann et al. in their recent book ( The Neurobiology of Learning, Perspectives From Second Language Acquisition. 2004, Lawrence Earlbaum, Mahwah, N.J., London) have this to say: '' If our thinking about second language learning is not constrained by the biology of learning, and if it is only constrained by an analysis of the product of that learning, then we can say almost anything about underlying mechanisms. .......we can invoke, as though they were real, mechanisms such as an affective filter, cognitive operating principles, noticing, monitoring, pidginization, nativization, cognitive strategies, learning strategies. But �Euro�.. should we limit ourselves to metaphors? We can constrain our metaphors with biological knowledge. Second language acquisition is a subfield of Applied Linguistics and is as much psychological as it is linguistic. But just as we are making our links with psychology, psychology is becoming radically biologized....''

    The unprecedented advances in imaging technologies and computational capabilities give real hope for major breakthroughs in the coming years in the understanding of human behavior. In other words, for the first time there is a real possibility to establish direct relationships between observed behaviors and their neurobiological substrates, thus allowing for first-order explanations of these phenomena. A true revolution in the way we conceptualize and think about the complex proposition called human existence. The thrust of this exciting new development, of course, is that we can now look at this process in radically new ways, taking full advantage of the dramatic discoveries in the neurosciences and in computer science.

    We at LANGUAGE LEARNING - A Journal of Research in Language Studies, as a leading journal in applied linguistics, wish to give concrete expression to these convictions. I am writing now to invite you personally, you, your colleagues and your students to share with us the fruits of your research endeavors and consider our journal as a possible venue for publishing your work.

    These are truly exciting times.

    Alexander Z. Guiora General Editor LANGUAGE LEARNING A Journal of Research in Language Studies aguioraumich.edu



    Manuscripts should be sent to: Prof. Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Editor, Language Learning Program in TESOL/Applied Linguistics Memorial Hall 313 1021 East Third Street Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-7005 USA