LINGUIST List 17.1406
Sun May 07 2006
Calls: General Ling/UK;Computational Ling/USA
Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows
<kevinlinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. John
Kirk,
6th Language and Politics Symposium on the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht
2. Jussi
Karlgren,
Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice
Message 1: 6th Language and Politics Symposium on the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht
Date: 03-May-2006
From: John Kirk <j.m.kirkqub.ac.uk>
Subject: 6th Language and Politics Symposium on the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht
Full Title: 6th Language and Politics Symposium on the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht
Short Title: 6L&PS
Date: 30-Aug-2006 - 01-Sep-2006
Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Contact Person: John Kirk
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): None
Call Deadline: 15-May-2006
Meeting Description:
6th Language and Politics Symposium on the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht
Economic Development through Language:The Role of Communities, the State and Enterprise Initiatives
First Circular: 19 April 2006
Arts and Humanities Research Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
6th Language and Politics Symposium on the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht
Economic Development through Language:The Role of Communities, the State and Enterprise Initiatives
Organised by John M. Kirk, Dónall P. Ó Baoill and Raymond Cummings
Queen's University Belfast, 30 August - 1 September 2006
The central questions to be addressed in this symposium are the following:* How is economic development being achieved through the language?* And how could it be done?* Are the agents at the grass roots with development being driven by communities bottom-up?* Or are the agents the various embodiments of the state (the Government, NGOs and Agencies, universities, the educational sector, broadcasting, and the media), driving development top-down?* Or is it up to laissez-faire enterpreneurism within the commercial sector to drive development through language?* Or are there other enterprises or initiatives which are bringing or could bring beneficial forces? For instance, Cultural tourism? Academic tourism?
The symposium will also be interested in exploring the following areas: minority languages in the world of work; minority languages and the private sector; Labour Employment Law; 'the Irish language industry'; Gaelic as a language at work; the barriers to minority languages at work; the relationship between minority languages and the international economy; globalisation => monolingualism; need to consider macro-economic level as well as micro-economic and meso-economic levels; is the Gaelic economy only where Gaelic is spoken? Area economics vs. the economics of the individual as creator of wealth and payer of taxes; the minority language speaker as a fiscal unit. Are the discourses and perceptions about learning Gaelic economically-driven or economically-empowering?The symposium might also consider the effects of globalisation and the inhabitation of the local (language, culture, economy, work); globalisation vs. glocalisation.
Contacts:j.m.kirkqub.ac.ukTel. 028 9097 3815 // Fax 028 9031 4615
Confirmed supported from AHRC RCISS, Queen's University of Belfast, and Foras na Gaeilge. Other applications pending.Thursday 31 August 2006 (provisional schedule)
Sessions with invited, key-note speakers (30 minutes presentation + 15 discussion)
Section 1: The current situation· Senior Representative(s) of Údarás na Gaeltachta and Foras na Gaeilge· Senior Representative(s) of Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Bòrd na GàidhligSection 2: Models, theory and practice and Ireland Confirmed speakers· Prof. Francois Grin (University of Geneva)· Dr John Walsh (University College Galway)Section 3: Other voices Confirmed speakers· Prof. Glyn Williams (Currently Research Professor, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University Ramon Llull, Barcelona. Formerly Director, Research Centre Wales, University of Wales, Bangor)· Professor Finbarr Bradley (Maynooth University)Section 4: Scotland· Speakers not yet confirmedPanel Discussion
Friday 1 September
Call for Papers on Economic Development through Language: The Role of Communities, the State and Enterprise Initiatives.
For the Friday sessions, we invite offers of suitable papers. To be considered, abstracts of at least 500 and no more than1500 words should be sent to the organisers by 15 May 2006. Papers are to be of no more than 20 minutes duration, to be followed by up to 10 minutes discussion. Up to 12 such papers can be accommodated.
Call for Participation
We invite all those interested in participating to declare themselves as far as possible by 15 May 2006, particularly those coming to Belfast from a distance who might wish us, as in previous years, to contribute to their travelling expenses.
TimetableInformal Get-together & registration: evening of Wednesday 30 AugustDaytime: sessions; evening: Conference Dinner on Thursday 31 AugustDaytime sessions; evening: Book Launch: Friday 1 September
Publication of edited papers by December 2006, to be edited by John M. Kirk, Dónall P. Ó Baoill and Raymond Cummings.
Message 2: Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice
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Date: 03-May-2006
From: Jussi Karlgren <jussisics.se>
Subject: Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice
Full Title: Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice
Short Title: SIGIR workshop
Date: 10-Aug-2006 - 10-Aug-2006
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Contact Person: Jussi Karlgren
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.lingcog.iit.edu/style2006
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Forensic Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2006
Meeting Description:
The workshop on Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice follows four previous successful exploratory events on stylistic analysis and will focus on the practical craft of stylistic analysis in natural language texts.
Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice SIGIR 2006 Workshop Seattle, August 10, 2006
http://www.lingcog.iit.edu/style2006 style2006sics.se
IMPORTANT DATES
Expression of interest to participate now!Submission of participation proposals June 1Notification of acceptance June 14Program published June 20Workshop August 10
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