LINGUIST List 18.3362
Tue Nov 13 2007
Calls: General Ling/USA; Historical Ling,Phonology,Syntax/UK
Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz
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1. Catherine
Lai,
Penn Linguistics Colloquium
2. Phillip
Tipton,
3rd Northern Englishes Workshop
Message 1: Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Date: 12-Nov-2007
From: Catherine Lai <laicbabel.ling.upenn.edu>
Subject: Penn Linguistics Colloquium
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Full Title: Penn Linguistics Colloquium Short Title: PLC 32
Date: 22-Feb-2008 - 24-Feb-2008 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Contact Person: Catherine Lai Meeting Email: plc32ling.upenn.edu Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/
Penn Linguistics Colloquium Department of Linguistics 619 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Message 2: 3rd Northern Englishes Workshop
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Date: 12-Nov-2007
From: Phillip Tipton <P.Tiptonsalford.ac.uk>
Subject: 3rd Northern Englishes Workshop
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Full Title: 3rd Northern Englishes Workshop Short Title: NEW 3
Date: 27-Mar-2008 - 28-Mar-2008 Location: Salford, United Kingdom Contact Person: Phillip Tipton Meeting Email: P.Tiptonsalford.ac.uk by 7th December 2007. Decisions on abstracts will be communicated by 21st December 2007.
The 3rd Northern Englishes Workshop will have an interdisciplinary theme and we are therefore delighted to announce the following plenary speaker:
Dr Gaynor Bagnall (School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford)
Social class and the performance of 'being Northern' in narratives of identity and belonging
Professor Mike Coombes (School of Geography, Politics and Sociology)
Abstract TBC
Accommodation and workshop dinner There will be a workshop dinner in Manchester city centre on 27th March, and accommodation will be arranged at city centre hotels for those who require it. More information on accommodation will be available nearer to the time of the workshop.
Postgraduate workshops
On the afternoon of 27th March, a number of postgraduate workshops will be held. It is anticipated that the following sessions will be offered (more may be made available according to demand):
- Theoretical approaches to syntactic variation in the speech community (Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh) - Do we still need dialectology? (Joan Beal, University of Sheffield) - Sociophonetics: more than the sum of its parts? (Kevin Watson, Lancaster University) - Why Language Variation and Change needs phonological theory (Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh) - How to get published in a linguistics journal (Diane Blakemore, University of Salford)
More information will be made available at the following address: http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/esri/news/article/index.php?id=19. Click on the Northern Englishes Workshop link to be taken to the website.
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