<p style="text-align:justify">We are pleased to announce the <strong>Third International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3),</strong> to be held at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on <strong>21-22 September 2012.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify">ELC3 aims to provide postgraduate
students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an
informal and intellectually stimulating setting. We welcome proposals
for papers characterized by an empirical, cognitive-functional outlook
on the study of language and communication; they may cover fields as
diverse as grammar and morphosyntax, language change and historical
linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, speech and language
disorders, discourse analysis and pragmatics, lexicology and semantics,
contrastive and corpus linguistics, and linguistics applied to the
teaching and acquisition of first and second languages.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The conference is organised by
postgraduate students from the English Departments at the Universities
of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo and the Department of Social and
Experimental Psychology at Santiago de Compostela. It is supported by
the <a href="http://elc.org.es/" target="_blank"><strong>English Linguistics Circle</strong></a>, a research network involving the following research teams:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><a href="http://www.usc-vlcg.es/" target="_blank">Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization</a></strong> (VLCG; University of Santiago de Compostela). Director: Teresa Fanego.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><a href="http://www.spertus.es/" target="_blank">Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago de Compostela</a></strong> (SPERTUS; University of Santiago de Compostela). Director: Ignacio Palacios.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><a href="http://www.usc.es/pcc" target="_blank">Cognitive Processes and Behaviour</a></strong> (PCC, Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela). Director: Isabel Fraga.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><a href="http://webs.uvigo.es/lvtc" target="_blank">Language Variation and Textual Categorisation</a></strong> (LVTG; University of Vigo). Director: Javier Pérez-Guerra.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#ff6600"><strong>Methods and Materials for the Teaching and Acquisition of Foreign Languages</strong></span> (MMTAFL, Faculty of Philology and Translation, University of Vigo). Director: Rosa Alonso.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p><p style="text-align:justify">Postgraduate students are invited to
submit abstracts for oral presentations on fields of research as diverse
as grammar and morphosyntax, language change and historical
linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, speech and language
disorders, discourse analysis and pragmatics, lexicology and semantics,
contrastive and corpus linguistics, and linguistics applied to the
teaching and acquisition of first and second languages. Papers are to be
20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes for discussion. The conference
language is English.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">For current purposes, postgraduate
students include: a) students that have not completed their PhD before
the conference; b) postdocs that have completed their PhD not earlier
than January 2011.</p>
<p><strong></strong></p><p><br><strong></strong></p><p><strong>IMPORTANT DATES </strong></p>
<ul><li>Abstract submission deadline: <b>15 March 2012</b></li><li>Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2012</li><li>Early-bird registration deadline: 30 June 2012</li><li>Late registration: from 1 July 2011</li></ul>
<p>For further information, you send an e-mail to <strong><a href="mailto:elc.%20conference@usc.es%20">elc.conference@usc.es</a></strong> or visit the conference webpage: <a href="http://elc3.elc-postgraduateconference.es/">http://elc3.elc-postgraduateconference.es/</a></p>
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</p><p><br></p><p>Best regards,</p><p><br></p><p>Paula Rodríguez-Puente<br></p><p><br></p>