LINGUIST List 29.4529: Calls: English; Text/Corpus Linguistics/Switzerland

LINGUIST List 29.4529

Thu Nov 15 2018

Calls: English; Text/Corpus Linguistics/Switzerland

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>

Date: 13-Nov-2018
From: Susanne Flach <susanne.flachunine.ch>
Subject: 40th ICAME Conference
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Full Title: 40th ICAME Conference
Short Title: ICAME40

Date: 01-Jun-2019 - 05-Jun-2019
Location: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Contact Person: Susanne Flach
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: https://icame40.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2018

Meeting Description:

We are happy to announce the 40th ICAME at the Université de Neuchâtel from June 1-5, 2019. The conference theme is ''Language in Time, Time in Language''.

The ICAME is an international conference for corpus-based approaches to English.

Plenary speakers:

Joan Bybee (New Mexico)
Lisa Lim (Hong Kong)
Monika Bednarek (Sydney)
Natalia Levshina (Leipzig)
Raj Mesthrie (Cape Town)

2nd Call for Papers:

This is the 2nd Call for Papers for ICAME40 at the Université de Neuchâtel from June 1-5, 2019. The theme of the conference is ''Language in Time, Time in Language''.

We invite abstracts for full papers, work-in-progress reports, software demos, and posters on any topic relating to English(es); contributions related to the conference theme are especially encouraged. All abstracts (max. 500 words; incl. references) must be anonymous and should clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts if at least one paper is co-authored.

Please submit your abstract both for the main conference and the workshops via our conference website by December 15, 2018 ( https://icame40.ch/login ). Notification of acceptance will be sent out by mid-January.

Pre-conference Workshops:

We have accepted the following pre-conference workshops; descriptions are available on the conference website:

- Big data and the study of language and culture: Parliamentary discourse across time and space (Convenors: Jukka Tyrkkö, Minna Korhonen & Haidee Kruger)
- Languages in time, time in languages: Phraseological perspectives (Convenors: Anna Čermáková, Hilde Hasselgård, Thomas Egan & Sylvi Rørvik)
- Register approaches to language variation and change in English(es) (Convenors: Elena Seoane & Douglas Biber)
- Corpus approaches to social media (Convenors: Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter)

Venue & registration:

The conference will be held at the Faculté de lettres et sciences humaines (FLSH) at the Université de Neuchâtel, on the shores of Lac Neuchâtel. Registration will open on January 15 and early-bird fees will be available until March 31, 2019. More information on fees and accommodation will be available on the website by the end of this week.

Contact:

For more information on the workshops, venue, and accommodation deals, visit our website at https://icame40.ch/. Feel free to get in touch with us via the conference email address (icame40unine.ch) or engage with us on Twitter icame40 (#icame40).

We are looking forward to seeing you in Neuchâtel!

The local organizing committee
Martin Hilpert, Susanne Flach, Samuel Bourgeois & David Correia Saavedra

Page Updated: 15-Nov-2018