cfp: Age, Language and Society

[Lauren Squires]

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Message 1: Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society
Date: 11-Nov-2005
From: URSZULA OKULSKA <U.OKULSKAUW.EDU.PL>
Subject: Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society

Full Title: Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society
Short Title: GlobE 2006

Date: 21-Sep-2006 - 23-Sep-2006
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Contact Person: Grzegorz Kowalski
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://globe.ils.uw.edu.pl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

What is the power of age?

How is age linguistically constructed, maintained and challenged
across discourses, institutions, cultures and times?

We elicit papers to the following topics:

age as a sociolinguistic parameter;
age as a cultural parameter; age rights;
discursive construction of age;
age in a discourse-diachronic perspective;
age in intra-group communication;
age in inter-group communication;
age-targeted discourses;
age and 'computer literacy'
foreign (second) language teaching across ages;
foreign (second) language learning across ages;
language therapy of age related problems;
semiotics of age-related behaviors;
generational conflict;
power of age
translating for age groups

We welcome papers incorporating various perspectives on language, including:

sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, discourse semantics, text linguistics, 
pragmatics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, contrastive 
linguistics, intercultural communication, multilingualism, gender studies, 
translation, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, language acquisition.

The language of the conference is English.