Full Title: The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 18th International Spring Forum 2025
Short Title: ELSJ

Date: 17-May-2025 - 18-May-2025
Location: Seijo University, Tokyo 6-1-20 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo-to, 157-8511, Japan, Japan
Contact Person: Hiroki Egashira
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: http://elsj.jp

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 18th Spring Forum is to be held in May 17th and 18th. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English.

For more information about the conference, please visit the official website linked below.

2nd Call for Papers:

We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 18th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English.
Forum Dates: Saturday May 17 – Sunday May 18, 2025
Location: Seijo University, Tokyo
6-1-20 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo-to, 157-8511, Japan
Contact: [email protected]

We invite abstracts for (A) oral presentations (each a 20-minute talk plus a 10-minute discussion period), (B) poster presentations, and (C) proposals for workshops (presentations and discussion for approximately two hours) in the following area(s) of linguistics:
1) phonetics and phonology,
2) morphology and lexicology,
3) syntax,
4) semantics,
5) pragmatics and discourse analysis,
6) historical linguistics,
7) corpus linguistics and descriptive grammar,
8) cognitive linguistics,
9) sociolinguistics,
10) psycholinguistics,
11) neurolinguistics,
12) other fields.
An individual may submit a maximum of two papers but can be the first author of only one of them. (Papers for a workshop are excluded from this count). No changes in the title or authors are allowed after the abstracts or workshop proposals have been submitted. Orally presented papers may be published in JELS. Note that, to submit a paper to JELS, the author, or one author in the case of joint research, must be a member of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. Please see below for the Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts and Workshop Proposals for the ELSJ International Spring Forum.

Important dates for the ELSJ 18th International Spring Forum
Forum Dates: May 17 – May 18, 2025
Abstract/Proposal Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. JST on December 2→9, 2024 (extended)
Notification of Acceptance: on or after January 20, 2025

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts and Workshop Proposals
for the ELSJ International Spring Forum
1. Papers should be concerned with descriptive or theoretical studies of English (synchronic or diachronic), general linguistic theories, or the comparison of English with other languages (especially Japanese). The area(s) of linguistics addressed by the papers should be on the list in section 5 below.
2. Only work that will remain unpublished at the time of the presentation may be submitted. Papers concurrently submitted to other conferences, English Linguistics or other journals, or books of any kind will not be considered.
3. Using a 12-point font on A4 or letter-size paper, the maximum length of an abstract is two pages and that of a workshop proposal is three pages, including references, tree diagrams, and tables. The width of the margins is 1 inch all around. All material must be included in a single PDF file. For the title of the abstract, capitalize the first letter of every content word. Also, capitalize the first letter of both parts of the hyphenated word (ex. South-East) and the first letter of the words after the colon.
4. Abstracts/workshop proposals should include the title of the paper or workshop at the top of the first page, but they must not include the name(s) of the author(s) or organizer(s) or any information that identifies them.
5. Abstracts and workshop proposals must be submitted electronically in PDF format with “file creator” property unspecified through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elsjsf18 by 11:59 PM, Monday, December 9, 2024 (JST). Please indicate keywords for your submission and your preference for oral, poster, or workshop sessions in the field entitled “Keywords” of the EasyChair submission link.

Please see our website for more details: http://elsj.jp/about-the-elsj-spring-forum/