LINGUIST List 15.1616

Fri May 21 2004

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  • ginzburg, 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

    Message 1: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

     Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:37:52 -0700
    From: Norbert Francis <Norbert.FrancisNAU.EDU>
    Subject: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism


    Call for Papers

    International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (General Editor: Colin Baker, University of Wales at Bangor)

    SPECIAL ISSUE ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE BILINGUALISM

    Guest Editor: Norbert Francis, Northern Arizona University

    FOCUS

    Manuscripts are being requested for the upcoming special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism on Indigenous Language Bilingualism. The focus of the special issue will be on research reports from field studies of bilingualism and language learning, aspects of language use and language competence, and research applied to both educational contexts and language development in general involving indigenous language communities and indigenous cultures. Papers should be reports on an actual empirical study, or a theoretical discussion or review of literature that references empirical work in the field. A broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches is to be included, from: educational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological studies of language and education, and work from experimental, controlled-descriptive, and ethnographic approaches. Aspects of language development and language use focused on either the indigenous language or the national language or both, children and/or adults, in school and/or extracurricular-community settings are being solicited.

    SUGGESTED TOPICS Reports, reviews, and discussions related to the study of indigenous languages from the following areas of research are especially welcome:

    -Literacy learning (indigenous language and/or national language) -Written language, writing systems -Oral tradition -Narrative development -Analysis of narrative, ceremonial, poetic, pedagogic, oral history genres -Second language learning of indigenous and/or national languages -Language preservation/revitalization -First or second language attrition, language shift -Bilingual instructional models, indigenous languages in content area teaching -Classroom interaction, academic achievement -Cross-cultural communication, discourse analysis -Development of pragmatic knowledge -Grammatical aspects of bilingual development (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) -Bilingualism and cognition, metalinguistic awareness<br> -Early childhood bilingualism, L1 acquisition of indigenous languages -Intergenerational transmission -Late L2 learning of indigenous languages -Research methodology, language assessment -Codeswitching, borrowing, mixing -Crosslinguistic influence, transfer, language processing -Language variation, language change

    Authors may, if they wish, send an abstract and introductory section of a proposed paper to the guest editor to receive initial observations regarding suitability for the special issue theme, final acceptance subject to a full review of the completed paper.

    SUBMISSION FORMAT

    Papers should be original, previously unpublished research, approximately 6,000 - 7,000 words, in English. Guidelines for authors can be found at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

    Then click: Journals info International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism � General Guidelines for Authors of Journal Papers.

    Interested persons should feel free to send any inquiry related to this project to the guest editor.

    Send your submission (preferably as a Word file attached to an email message), prepared for anonymous review, to: norbert.francisnau.edu or by post to: Norbert Francis College of Education, P.O. Box 5774 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona 86001, USA

    Please indicate a return address and/or email, including institutional affiliation, of the primary author. An electronic version of your paper, if accepted, will be required.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Paper submissions: May 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2005 Final versions due: November 30, 2005

    Message 2: 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

     Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:43:24 -0400 (EDT)
    From: ginzburg <ginzburgdcs.kcl.ac.uk>
    Subject: 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue


    8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Short Title: CATALOG '04

    Date: 19-Jul-2004 - 21-Jul-2004 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Enric Vallduv� Contact Email: catalog04upf.edu Meeting URL: http://www.upf.edu/catalog04

    Linguistic Sub-field: Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Catalog'04 will be the eighth in a series of workshops that aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The Dial/Log conferences are always stimulating and fun and Barcelona, which will host ACL 2004 immediately following Catalog'04, is a great place to visit. Barcelona will also host, during the summer of 2004, its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events, exhibits, and performances (http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/). So mark your calendar now.



    Call for Demos and Project Descriptions

    Catalog '04

    EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra July 19-21 2004

    http://www.upf.edu/catalog04

    Catalog 2004 will be the eighth in a series of workshops that aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

    The following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation: *Robin Cooper (G�teborgs Universitet) *Massimo Poesio (University of Essex) *Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University) *Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester)

    For the program, see the Catalog '04 website.

    REGISTRATION

    The registration process has started, see the Catalog 04 website. Note that the early registration deadline with a reduced fee is June 30 2004.

    DEMOS AND PROJECT NOTES

    We invite abstracts describing software demonstrations and/or actual projects relevant to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues.

    SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

    Authors should submit a two page abstract including names, affiliation, address, and e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in postscript, pdf, html or ascii) to: catalog04upf.edu. Submissions have to be in English, which is the workshop language.

    Selection will be made on the basis of relevance to the workshop. The accepted abstracts will be made available on the workshop website and will get time/space for presentation during the workshop.

    IMPORTANT DATES:

    Demo and project abstracts due: June 15 2004 Acceptance notice: June 21 2004 Early registration deadline: June 30 2004 *********Final version due: June 30 2004************* Workshop dates: July 19-21 2004

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London, Chair), Anton Benz (Syddansk Universitet), Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh), Justine Cassell (Northwestern University), Lawrence Cavedon (CSLI, Stanford), Robin Cooper (G�teborgs Universitet), Paul Dekker(University of Amsterdam),Claire Gardent (CNRS, Loria), Simon Garrod (University of Glasgow), Pat Healey (Queen Mary, University of London), Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, (Universit�t des Saarlandes), Staffan Larsson (G�teborgs Universitet), Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh), David Milward (Linguamatics, Cambridge), Massimo Poesio (University of Essex), Hannes Rieser (Universit�t Bielefeld), David Traum (University of Southern California)

    ORGANIZATION:

    The workshop will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Rambla building) in the center of Barcelona.

    ENDORSEMENT:

    The workshop is endorsed by SIGDIAL http://www.sigsem.org

    FOR MORE INFORMATION:

    More information on the conference is being posted on the workshop's Webpage at http://www.upf-edu/catalog04. For further information you can also mail to catalog04upf.edu