LINGUIST List 17.2029

Tue Jul 11 2006

Calls: General Ling/Qatar

Editor for this issue: Dan Parker <danlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Murtadha Bakir, Linguistics in the Arabian Gulf

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Message 1: Linguistics in the Arabian Gulf
Date: 10-Jul-2006
From: Murtadha Bakir < mjbakirqu.edu.qa>
Subject: Linguistics in the Arabian Gulf



Full Title: Linguistics in the Arabian Gulf
Date: 14-Mar-2007 - 15-Mar-2007 Location: Doha, Qatar Contact Person: Murtadha Bakir
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2007

Meeting Description:

All areas of language study in the region.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Foreign Languages / Qatar University, is pleased to announce its conference on ''Linguistics in the Arabian Gulf'' to be held on March 14-15. 2007.

We invite contributions in any area of research on the language scene in this region including, but not limited to;-Formal aspects of the Gulf spoken dialects-Contact with other languages-Linguistic variation-Linguistic change-Language planning and language politics-Relation to Standard Arabic-Language and mass media

The Department hopes that the conference will bring together researchers and experts investigating a wide range of topics related to the study of language in the Arabian Gulf region.

Keynote Speaker:Professor Clive Holes, Oxford University

Submission of Abstracts:Abstracts ( of 400 words max) should be submitted electronically as an attachment (in rich text format), to mjbakirqu.edu.qa