<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>THE SIXTH LANCASTER UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE <BR>IN LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING<BR><BR>Dear All,<BR><BR>We are pleased to announce the Sixth Lancaster University International <BR>Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (LAEL PG<BR>Conference) which will take place at Lancaster University's George Fox building, <BR>on Tuesday 12th of July 2011.<BR><BR>This one-day conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from all <BR>research areas an opportunity to present and discuss their research in<BR>an informal and intellectually stimulating setting. <BR><BR>This year's conference will be opened by Prof. Greg Myers (Lancaster <BR>University), and there will be guest plenary lectures by:<BR>Prof. Paul Kerswill (Lancaster
University)<BR>Dr. Johnny Unger (Lancaster University)<BR><BR>We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral and poster <BR>presentations on any area of linguistics, theoretical or applied (see below for <BR>abstract submission guidelines).<BR><BR>Topics Include:<BR><BR> - Cognitive linguistics<BR> - Corpus linguistics<BR> - Critical discourse analysis<BR> - Historical linguistics<BR> - Literacy studies<BR> - Pragmatics/semantics<BR> - Phonetics/phonology<BR> - Second language teaching/learning/assessment<BR> - Sociolinguistics<BR> - Syntax/morphology Stylistics<BR> - Translation studies<BR> - Other: please specify<BR><BR>For further information, please visit the website: <BR><A href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/laelpgconference/index.htm" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT
color=#810081>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/laelpgconference/index.htm</FONT></A><BR><BR>Key Dates<BR><BR>Abstracts must be received by Friday 25 March 2011 <BR>Notification of acceptancewill be given on Tuesday 10 May 2011<BR><BR>Hope to hear from you all soon,<BR><BR>Helen Faye West<BR>Janina Iwaniec<BR>Matteo Di Cristofaro<BR>Jonathon Adams<BR>Ibrahim Efe</DIV></div></body></html>