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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is to announce that the deadline for
submissions to our Seminar on Letters and Letter Writing (part of the ESSE6
conference) has been extended to March 15th. If you wish to present a
paper at this event please send your abstract to one of the convenors as soon as
you can. The details follow.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ESSE6 Strasbourg. August 30th-September 3rd,
2002</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S49. Seminar on Letters and Letter
Writing</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Convenors: Minna Palander-Collin (Univ, of
Helsinki)</FONT></DIV>
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Minna Nevala (Univ. of Helsinki)</FONT></DIV>
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Margaret Sonmez (METU, Ankara)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>email addresses: <A
href="mailto:minna.nevala@helsinki.fi">minna.nevala@helsinki.fi</A></FONT></DIV>
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<A
href="mailto:marmez@tutor.fedu.metu.edu.tr">marmez@tutor.fedu.metu.edu.tr</A></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This seminar invites literary and linguistic
scholars who use various types of letters as their research material to submit
papers on letters and letter writing from early English correspondence to
present-day computer-mediated communication. Presentations for this
session might deal with such topics as the origin, form and purpose of a letter;
the influence of letters on different types of discourse (eg newsletters,
epistolary novels); the role of letter-writing instruction and writing manuals;
and the linguistic characteristics common to letters in different
times.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Link to ESSE6 web site: </FONT></DIV>
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href="http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/esse6.html">http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/esse6.html</A>
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