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<div dir="ltr"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2">Dear colleagues,</font></font></span></div>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2">As you might know, we will be holding the 1st Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference (ILinC<a></a><a></a><a></a>) at Queen's University Belfast on 14-15 October 2011 (Friday and Saturday).
This is a joint initiative between the Schools of Education, English and Modern Languages at Queen's to bring together students and staff members working with language topics. For this reason, we would like to invite you and your colleagues/students to take
part at this event.</font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font size="2" face="tahoma">The Organizing Committee is most honored to welcome three stellar guests, who will be delivering<a></a> keynote addresses at the 1st ILinC<a></a><a></a><a></a>.</font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font size="2" face="tahoma">(a) Prof. Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford): "Having and impact? Power, knowledge and language in a changing world"</font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font size="2" face="tahoma">(b) Prof. Michael Halliday<a></a><a></a><a></a> (University of Sydney): "Why do we need to understand about language?"</font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font size="2" face="tahoma">(c) Prof. Ruqaiya<a></a><a></a><a></a> Hasan<a></a><a></a><a></a> (Macquaire<a></a><a></a><a></a> University): "Everyday language: its mileage in life"</font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font size="2" face="tahoma">In addition to these speakers, the program consists of several paper and poster presentations on diverse areas of language scholarship, including corpus linguistics. The conference program is available
on our website (<a href="http://go.qub.ac.uk/1stILinC" target="_blank">http://go.qub.ac.uk/1stILinC</a>), where you may find additional information about the conference. First-hand updates are constantly published on our Facebook<a></a><a></a><a></a> page,
which may be accessed at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/QUBILinC" target="_blank">
http://www.facebook.com/QUBILinC</a>.</font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">In case you would like to take part in the conference, registration for the 1st ILinC<a></a><a></a><a></a> is open at
</font><a href="http://go.qub.ac.uk/registration" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">http://go.qub.ac.uk/registration</font></a><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2">.<span> Given the limited capacity of our venue, delegates will be accepted on a first
come, first saved basis. Should you have any queries, please do hot hesitate to write to us at
<a href="mailto:ilinc@qub.ac.uk">ilinc@qub.ac.uk</a><a></a><a></a><a></a></span>.</font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2">Looking forward to welcoming you to the event next October,</font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2">1st ILinC<a></a><a></a><a></a> Organizing Committee</font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a href="http://go.qub.ac.uk/1stILinC" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">http://go.qub.ac.uk/1stILinC</font></a></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/QUBILinC" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">http://www.facebook.com/QUBILinC</font></a></span></p>
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