LINGUIST List 18.1092

Wed Apr 11 2007

Calls: Anthropological Ling,Socioling/South Korea;General Ling/Spain

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Hye-Sook Kim, Workshop on Language and Gender at CIL 18
         2.    Andrew Smith, Evolution of Language: 7th International Conference
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Message 1: Workshop on Language and Gender at CIL 18
Date: 11-Apr-2007
From: Hye-Sook Kim <hskimkonyang.ac.kr>
Subject: Workshop on Language and Gender at CIL 18



Full Title: Workshop on Language and Gender at CIL 18
Date: 21-Jul-2008 - 26-Jul-2008 Location: Seoul, Korea, South Contact Person: Hye-Sook Kim
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.cil18.org/workshop/workshop_10.htm
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-May-2007

Meeting Description:

Workshop Title: Language and GenderDate: July 21-26, 2008Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 31, 2007http://www.cil18.org/workshop/workshop_10.htm

Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

A workshop on Language and Gender will be held in conjunction with the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18).

Organizers:Hye-Sook Kim (Konyang University)Kathleen Ahrens (National Taiwan University)Ik-Hwan Lee (Yonsei University)

Contact:Hye-Sook KimDept. of English,Konyang University,Nonsan, Chungcheongnam-do, 320-711South KoreaEmail: hskimkonyang.ac.kr. An MS Word and/or .pdf file may be accepted.

Important Dates:-Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 31, 2007-Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 31, 2007


Message 2: Evolution of Language: 7th International Conference
Date: 10-Apr-2007
From: Andrew Smith <andrewling.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Evolution of Language: 7th International Conference



Full Title: Evolution of Language: 7th International Conference Short Title: EVOLANG7
Date: 11-Mar-2008 - 15-Mar-2008 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact Person: Jim Hurford
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~evolang2008/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2007

Meeting Description:

Evolution of Language: Seventh International Conference, 2008 (EVOLANG7)

CosmoCaixa (Museum of Science), Barcelona, Spain.Tuesday 11th March - Saturday 15th March, 2008http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~evolang2008/

Call for papers

Papers and Abstracts are now solicited.

Content: The conference welcomes substantive contributions relating to the evolution of human language from any relevant discipline, including Anthropology, Genetics, Population Biology, Linguistics, Psychology, Primatology, Ethology, Paleontology, Archeology, Artificial Life, and Mathematical Modelling. Normal standards of academic quality apply. Thus, submitted papers should aim to make clear their own substantive claim, relating this to relevant scientific literature, and briefly setting out the method by which the claim is substantiated, the nature of the relevant data, and/or the core of the theoretical argument concerned.

Deadline: Papers/Abstracts should be submitted by September 1st, 2007

Paper/Abstract Format:

Papers can have a length of between 6 and 8 pages using the World Scientific Publishing format.

Abstracts can have a length of maximum 2 pages, using the same format.

All formatting guidelines (including word and latex style files) are available in the conference submission webpage: http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~evolang2008/submission.html

All accepted papers or abstracts accepted will be allotted the same presentation length (probably 25 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion).

Submission Method:1. Email your paper/abstract to evolang7ling.ed.ac.uk with the following single-line message (not in the subject header):

subscribe evolang

Conference Organizing Committee:

Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth)Jean-Louis Dessalles (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris)Tecumseh Fitch (University of St Andrews)James R Hurford (University of Edinburgh)Chris Knight (University of East London)Maggie Tallerman (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)