Corpora: PALC 2001 - First Circular

[PALC 2001]

  PALC 2001 (PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE CORPORA)

  (Department of English Language, Lodz University)


  ****NOTE THAT THE DATE ADVERTISED ORIGINALLY HAS BEEN CHANGED****


  AIMS

  The Department of English Language at Lodz University plans to hold =
the 3rd international conference devoted to PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN =
LANGUAGE CORPORA. The general topic of the conference is the =
relationship between language corpora and their uses in a range of =
language and linguistic fields. Our aim is to provide a forum for =
practical exemplifications of language corpora (written and spoken) in =
action and a forum for fruitful interaction between scholars. Hopefully, =
such a conference will act as a stimulus to teaching, and to scholarly =
and critical research.


  DATES

  The conference will be held over 3 days, 7 to 9 September 2001 =
(arrival day 6 September) at the Lodz University Conference Centre. We =
expect approximately 120 participants from Poland and Central Europe, =
Western Europe and other parts of the world.


  PLENARY SPEAKERS

  We have invited a number of internationally known scholars in corpus =
linguistics and related fields to be plenary speakers. Their names will =
be made public in the second circular.


  TOPICS (All papers must be corpus-based.)

  We invite papers on such topics as:

  Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
  Discourse and Language Corpora
  ESP and Language Corpora
  Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems in Corpora
  FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
  Language Teaching Materials and Language Corpora
  Language Teaching and Learner Corpora=20
  Lexicography and Language Corpora
  Lexicology and Language Corpora,
  Literature and Language Corpora
  Phonetics/Phonology and Language Corpora
  Translation and Language Corpora,
  Other Corpus-related Topics


  ABSTRACTS

  Abstracts of papers should be up to 750 words long and forwarded (by =
e-mail, fax or mail) to the organisers. Deadline for submission of =
abstracts is 31 March 2001.=20

  Presentations should last 45 minutes including demonstrations, =
questions and discussion.


  PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS

  Selected papers from the conference will be published by an =
international publisher.


  COSTS

  The cost of conference registration, accommodation and fullboard at =
the conference centre is:


  Participants from Central and Eastern Europe:

  (fee: 200 PLN + accommodation/fullboard: 550PLN) 750 PLN
  N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by 31 March 2001 is 650 PLN

  Participants from Western Europe, the Americas, Far East, Others

  (fee: $150 + accommodation/fullboard: $300) $450
  N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by 31 March 2001 is $400


  PAYMENT

  Payment should be by cheque (in US dollars or equivalent in other =
currencies), made out to:=20

  Lodz University, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (PALC?01)

  and forwarded to:=20

  University of Lodz
  Department of English Language
  Al. Kosciuszki 65=20
  90-514 Lodz=20
  Poland


  Alternatively, cash or cheque payment can be made on arrival.


  ORGANISING COMMITTEE

  Prof. dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk=20
  Dr Stanislaw Roszkowski=20
  Mgr Krzysztof Kredens

  Department of English Language
  Al. Kosciuszki 65
  90-514 Lodz=20
  Poland

  tel: (#48) 42 639 02 20=20
  fax: (#48) 42 639 02 18=20


  SECRETARIES:

  Raf Uzar
  Jacek Walinski

  e-mail: corpora at krysia.uni.lodz.pl


  FURTHER INFORMATION

  Further details about the conference will be publicised in regular =
circulars to participants and academic institutions.


  >>>Official language of the conference will be English<<<