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<b><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><sup><a></a></sup><b><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">2<sup>ND</sup></font></font></b> CALL FOR PAPERS
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce its 1st Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference (ILinC<a></a>), a student-led venture to take place on 14-15 October 2011 (Friday and Saturday).<span>
</span>This two-day conference is designed to offer participants a stimulating and friendly forum in which they may present and discuss their research findings.<span>
</span>Additionally, the event aims at bringing together researchers from different academic divisions carrying out language studies in order to foster cross-disciplinary contact.</font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">This year’s conference theme is “Crossing Boundaries: The Impact of Language Studies in Academia and Beyond”.<span>
</span>We therefore seek to look into the role played by language studies both within the academic scenario and outside it, paying special attention to the relevance of current language research findings to society in general.</font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation at the conference:</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>Prof. Deborah Cameron</b> (University of Oxford);</font></font></p>
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</span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>Prof. Michael Halliday<a></a></b> (University of Sydney);</font></font></p>
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</span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>Prof. Ruqaiya<a></a> Hasan<a></a></b> (Macquarie University).</font></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">We invite researchers (both students and staff members) working in the broad area of language studies to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations based on the (non-exhaustive) list of areas below:</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Applied linguistics;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Classroom discourse;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Corpus linguistics;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Critical discourse analysis;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Discourse analysis;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Genre analysis;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Language change;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Language policy;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Language teaching/learning;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Linguistic and cultural imperialism;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Multimodality;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Phonetics/phonology;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Pragmatics;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Semantics;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Sociolinguistics;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Syntax;</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Stylistics.</font></p>
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<b><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Submission guidelines</font></font></b></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">Proposals should be submitted via EasyAbs<a></a> available at
</font><a href="http://go.qub.ac.uk/ilinc2011" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://go.qub.ac.uk/ilinc2011</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">, following the guidelines below:</font></p>
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<span><span><font size="3" face="Calibri">1.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Abstracts should be 300 words long (maximum) and should clearly indicate the research question/objective, literature review, methodology, results and conclusions (without any subheadings).</font></p>
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<span><span><font size="3" face="Calibri">2.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">The DOC file to be submitted via the online facility should be formatted as such:</font></p>
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<span><span><font size="3" face="Calibri">a.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">The first line should specify the title, which must be centralized, in bold, and in capital letters.</font></p>
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<span><span><font size="3" face="Calibri">b.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">After skipping a line, the abstract should be typed, containing a maximum of 300 words.<span>
</span>Citations should be included as deemed necessary, but there is no need to include full references at the end of the abstract.</font></p>
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<span><span><font size="3" face="Calibri">c.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Please do not use any foot/endnotes and avoid unusual symbols (such as phonetic transcriptions) which may be changed in electronic communication.</font></p>
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<b><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Key dates</font></font></b></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Abstract submission deadline: 8 July 2011</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Notification of reviewers’ decision: 15 August 2011</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Presenters’ registration deadline: 26 August 2011</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Conference: 14-15 October 2011</font></p>
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<b><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Publication</font></font></b></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">It is expected that a selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in an edited collection.<span>
</span>Further information will be disclosed in due course.</font></p>
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<b><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Further information</font></font></b></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Site: </font><a href="http://go.qub.ac.uk/1stILinC" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://go.qub.ac.uk/1stILinC</font></a></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">E-mail address: </font><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri"><a href="mailto:ilinc@qub.ac.uk"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">ilinc@qub.ac.uk</font></a><a></a><a href="mailto:ilinc@qub.ac.uk"></font></a></p>
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<b><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Support</font></font></b></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">School of Education (Queen’s University Belfast)</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">School of English (Queen’s University Belfast)</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts (Queen’s University Belfast)</font></p>
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