LINGUIST List 26.4676
Wed Oct 21 2015
Calls: Yiddish, Applied Ling, General Ling, Historical Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Russia
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 21-Oct-2015
From: Valentina Fedchenko <ilmen2005
yahoo.com>
Subject: 2nd International Conference: Hebrew and Yiddish in the Contemporary Education and Culture
E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 2nd International Conference: Hebrew and Yiddish in the Contemporary Education and Culture
Date: 27-Jun-2016 - 30-Jun-2016
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Contact Person: Valentina Fedchenko
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email >
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Yiddish, Eastern; Yiddish, Western
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2016
Meeting Description:
Department of Jewish Culture at Saint Petersburg State University is delighted to inform you of the Second International Conference 'Hebrew and Yiddish in the Context of Contemporary Education and Culture', which will be held by St. Petersburg State University in collaboration with Chais Center for Jewish Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Inter-regional Center for Hebrew Teaching at June, 27-30, 2016 in St. Petersburg (Russia).
The DJC provide a forum for high-quality research in Jewish studies. The conference is aiming at bringing researchers from Hebrew and Yiddish language, literature and culture to share their current research, ideas, and experience.
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions for an abstract of a research-based paper, focused on Hebrew or/and Yiddish, in any of the relevant fields, including but not limited to:
- Anthropological linguistics
- Applied linguistics
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Conversation analysis
- Corpus linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- First and additional language learning, teaching, and use
- General linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Language education
- Language in diaspora
- Language planning and policies
- Lexicography
- Linguistic typology
- Literacies & illiteracies
- Metaphor studies
- Pragmatics
- Pedagogy
- Rhetorics and stylistics
- Sociolinguistics and sociology of language
- Speech Acts Research
- Translation studies
Abstracts should clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They should not contain the names of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other information that may reveal their authorship. Only references mentioned in the text may be listed.
The application must contain the following information in a different file: the report subject, applicant's full name, information about academic degree (if any), postal address, phone number and email. The reports are to be delivered either in Russian (at all the sessions), or in Hebrew (at the Hebrew sessions), or in English and Yiddish (at the Yiddish sessions).
The authors are requested to submit their abstracts which should be in Russian, English, Hebrew or Yiddish and contain up to 600 words until February 1, 2016.
One person may submit a single-authored abstract, a single-authored abstract and a co-authored one (not as first author), or two co-authored abstracts (only one as first author). Presentations will be maximally 20 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for discussion.
All submitted papers are subjected to blind peer review. The full papers are going to be published in the journals “Jewish Speech” or “Judaica Petropolitana” with an ISBN number.
Notification of acceptance/rejection will be by 15 March 2016.
Page Updated: 21-Oct-2015