LINGUIST List 24.2284

Tue Jun 04 2013

Calls: English, Applied Ling, Socioling, Discourse Analysis, Historical Ling/Greece

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org>


Date: 04-Jun-2013
From: Chryso Hadjidemetriou <c.hadjidemetriousheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Responses to the Lingua Franca Role of English
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Full Title: Responses to the Lingua Franca Role of English
Date: 23-Nov-2013 - 24-Nov-2013 Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Contact Person: Chryso Hadjidemetriou
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.englishineurope.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/Conference%20in%20Thessaloniki/
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2013

Meeting Description:

Responses to the Lingua Franca Role of English
23 November - 24 November 2013
Thessaloniki, Greece

Organised by the South-East European Research Centre

The aim of the fourth conference in the ‘English in Europe’ series is to gain a comparative understanding of the debates surrounding the role of English as a lingua franca throughout Europe but with a particular focus on South East Europe and the Balkan region. We invite participants who are located both within the Balkan region and in other countries who are involved in research on ELF in the context of Europe for a series of sessions.

We are extremely proud to confirm that the following keynote speakers will be speaking at the conference:

Professor Cem Alptekin (Boğaziçi University)
Professor Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna)
Dr Nicos Sifakis (Hellenic Open University)

2nd Call for Papers:

Topics will include, but not be limited to:

Language attitudes
Language identity
English in the Media
Discourses of English as a lingua franca
ELF in education
Language contact, language variation and language loss
English language hegemony and language diversity

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts related to any of the topics listed above or to the overall theme of the conference should be sent to the conference email address: eie-organisergmail.com.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: 10 June 2013
Deadline for registration: 15 July 2013
Conference: 23-24 November 2013


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