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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana" size="4"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>The Third International Symposium on</b></span></font><font face="Verdana" size="4"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 15pt;"><b><br>
Chinese Language and Discourse</b></span></font><font face="Verdana" size="4"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 15pt;"> (ISCLD3)</span></font><font size="4"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 15pt;"><b><br>
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</b></span></font><font size="4"><span lang="zh-CN" style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>第三届汉语语言与话语国际研讨会</b></span></font><font face="Verdana" size="4"><span lang="zh-CN" style="font-size: 15pt;"><b></b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="4"><span lang="zh-CN" style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>第三屆漢語語言與話語國際研討會</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="4"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 15pt;"><br>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="3"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 13pt;">11-13 June, 2014</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse is a biennial symposium that advances
the exchange of scholarship in discourse functional studies of the Chinese language, emphasizing an empirical orientation and encompassing such fields as discourse and grammar, variation and change, language contact, language and society, language and culture,
and language and social interaction.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The third symposium will be held at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. The working language
of the symposium will be English.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (25 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion) to showcase
latest advancements in broadly-defined discourse functional studies of the Chinese language. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:</span></font></span></font></div>
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<li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Corpora and Chinese language studies</span></font></span></font></li><li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Language variation, change and development</span></font></span></font></li><li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Language acquisition</span></font></span></font></li><li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Language contact and diversity</span></font></span></font></li><li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Language and interaction</span></font></span></font></li><li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Language and society</span></font></span></font></li><li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Language and culture</span></font></span></font></li><li style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10pt;"><font face="SimSun" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Language and cognition</span></font></span></font></li></ul>
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An abstract of no more than 500 but no fewer than 300 words in English should be submitted to: </span></font><a href="mailto:roundtable@bbk.ac.uk" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">roundtable@bbk.ac.uk</span></font></a><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">.
Please also include (i) author(s)’ name(s); (ii) affiliation; and (iii) email address. </span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><br>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Deadline for submission of abstracts:</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><u>Friday
10</u></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="-1" color="black"><span lang="en"><u><sup>th</sup></u></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><u> January, 2014</u></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Notification of acceptance:</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> February,
2014</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="3"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 13pt;">Conference Dates</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Rint Sybesma </b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">(University
of Leiden, The Netherlands)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Richard Xiao </b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">(University
of Lancaster, UK)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Boping Yuan </b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">(University
of Cambridge, UK)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>There will be a Round Table on the teaching and learning of Chinese in the era of Globalization
on Wednesday 11</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="-1" color="black"><span lang="en"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b> June, 2014.</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Invited Speakers for the Round Table </b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">(further
contributors will be confirmed shortly):</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Katherine Carruthers</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> (Institute
of Education, University of London, UK)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Don Starr</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> (University of Durham,
UK)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Chun Zhang</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> (University
of </span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Aarhus, Denmark)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Zhu Hua</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> (Convenor,
Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif">Journal:</font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><i> </i></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><b><i>Chinese Language and Discourse</i></b></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"> (ISSN
1877-7031</font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#AAAAAA"> | </font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif">E-ISSN 1877-8798), Benjamins (</font><a href="http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/cld/main" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en">http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/cld/main</span></font></a><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="black"><span lang="en">).
Executive Editor Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif">Book series: </font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><b><i>Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse</i></b></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"> (ISSN 1879-5382),
Benjamins (</font><a href="http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scld/main" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en">http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scld/main</span></font></a><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="black"><span lang="en">).
Executive Editor Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Birkbeck College</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"> is
located at the heart of Bloomsbury, a historical and fashionable area in the centre of London</span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"> where numerous cultural, educational and health institutions are located.
The British Museum is next to Birkbeck buildings, and Oxford Street is within walking distance. It is accessible by several underground lines, with a direct line to Heathrow airport. There are abundant hotels and restaurants in the neighbourhood.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="SimSun" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Participants are asked to book their own accommodation, as the university does not have accommodation during term time.
There will be a registration fee to cover lunches, tea/coffee, and the delegate’s pack.</span></font></span></font></div>
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