Arabic-L:LING:Linguistics in the Gulf

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Date: 12 Jan 2013
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Subject:Linguistics in the Gulf

Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:42:51
From: Rizwan Ahmad [lingingulf at qu.edu.qa]
Subject: Linguistics in the Gulf-4

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Full Title: Linguistics in the Gulf-4
Short Title: LGC-4

Date: 17-Mar-2013 - 18-Mar-2013
Location: Doha, Qatar
Contact Person: Rizwan Ahmad
Meeting Email: lingingulf at qu.edu.qa

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 13-Jan-2013

Meeting Description:

After the success of the previous three conferences held in 2007, 2009, and
2011, the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar
University, is pleased to announce its 4th Linguistics in the Gulf
Conference (LGC) to be held on March 17-18, 2013.

The aim of the Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC) 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 scholars to collaborate in research
involving linguists working in institutions across the region.

Call for Papers:

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to January 13, 2013.

Linguistics in the Gulf-4 invites 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)
- Contact of the native Arabic dialects with other languages in the region
- Linguistic variation and change, language standardization, 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

Abstract Deadline:

Abstracts must be submitted online by January 13, 2012, through EasyAbs
(Easy Abstracts):

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/lingingulf4

Decisions about your abstracts will be communicated to you by the end of
January 2013.

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