LINGUIST List 26.341
Mon Jan 19 2015
Calls: General Linguistics/Qatar
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 19-Jan-2015
From: Michael Grosvald <lingingulf
qu.edu.qa>
Subject: Linguistics in the Gulf-5
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Short Title: LGC-5
Date: 29-Mar-2015 - 30-Mar-2015
Location: Doha, Qatar
Contact Person: Michael Grosvald
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/english/lingconference/fifth
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 08-Feb-2015
Meeting Description:
Title: Linguistics in the Gulf-5 (LGC-5)
Date: 29 March 2015 – 30 March 2015
Location: Doha, Qatar
After the success of the previous four conferences held in 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013, the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University, is pleased to announce its 5th Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC-5), to be held on March 29-30, 2015.
The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for scholars and professionals whose research interests focus on language in the Gulf region to share their ongoing research and expertise and to promote the study of linguistics in the region. The conference also aims to create opportunities for research collaboration among linguists working in institutions across the region.
Keynote Speakers:
LGC-5 will host two prominent keynote speakers.
Dr. Abdelkader Fassi Fehri is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Linguistics at Mohammed V University Rabat and is the founding President of the Linguistic Society of Morocco. The title of his talk will be “Arabic Ways to be Gendered.”
Dr. Yasir Suleiman is the Director of the Centre of Islamic Studies, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He will present a talk called “Arabic Language Ideology: Principles and Applications.”
Contact Person: Dr. Michael Grosvald at lingingulf
qu.edu.qa
Conference Website:
http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/english/lingconference/fifth/ Call for Papers:
Call Deadline: February 8, 2015
We invite abstracts that deal with any aspect of language in the Gulf, including but not limited to the following areas:
- Formal aspects of the Gulf spoken dialects (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics)
- Formal, social, and/or functional aspects of sign language(s) used in the Arabic-speaking world
- Contact of Arabic dialects with other languages in the region
- Linguistic variation and change, linguistic leveling, and language planning and policies
- Language ideology and attitudes about dialects and standard Arabic
- Discourse analysis of Arabic literary and non-literary texts
- Language acquisition & learning in the Gulf
- Forensic linguistics in the Arabic context
- Computational linguistics and Arabic data processing
- Neurolinguistics and bilingual language processing
- Sociolinguistics of English in the Gulf
Note:
- Abstracts must be submitted online by February 8, 2015 through EasyAbs (Easy Abstracts) at this link:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/lingingulf5 - Abstracts should be at most 400 words (not counting references), and not indicate the name of the author(s)
- Decisions about your abstracts will be communicated to you in mid-February, 2015.
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