<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for papers</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
is pleased to announce the 35th <span class="il">TABU</span> <span class="il">Dag</span>, which will take
place at the University
of Groningen
on <b>12 and 13 June 2014</b>. <span class="il">TABU</span> <span class="il">Dag</span> is an annual
international linguistics conference, which offers excellent
opportunities to meet other linguists and discuss current
research. (Post)graduate students and postdoctoral
researchers in particular are encouraged to present their
work.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The confirmed keynote speakers are:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Carmen Muñoz (University of
Barcelona). </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Esther De Leeuw (Queen Mary,
University of London)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We invite short abstracts for presentations and
posters in English in any field of linguistics including,
but not limited to: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">computational linguistics, </span>phonetics and phonology, syntax and
semantics, sociolinguistics, discourse and communication and neurolinguistics. Abstracts
should not be longer than 300 words excluding title, author
names, keywords and references and should be submitted via
the following link: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://goo.gl/yY3qZc" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/yY3qZc</a><span style="">. We invite submissions for oral
presentations of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion,
as well as for poster presentations.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Workshop on Mass Media Health Communication </span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">During <span class="il">TABU</span> <span class="il">Dag</span>, a workshop on Mass Media
Health Communication will be held on Thursday June 12th
from 13:30 until 18:00.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">National and international organisations have
been using mass media campaigns to get people to live
healthier lives for many years now. The effects of these
campaigns are varied. Why some strategies work in some
situations and others do not is a question that is far
from completely clear. One of the factors that seems to
play an important role in the persuasiveness of a mass
media health message is the receivers’ willingness to talk
about the message afterwards. That leads to the question:
how can we design messages that people find interesting to
discuss? Should a message be as clear as possible or does
it help if it includes a little puzzle the receiver may
attempt to solve? Should we try to scare people into
living a healthier life, or is it better to opt for a more
neutral approach? Is it helpful if we tell people a
compelling story with characters they can identify with if
we want to change their health behaviour?</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Topics of the workshop may be:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Direct and indirect effects of health
messages </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- </span></i>Message complexity</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- </span></i>Fear and shock appeals</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- </span></i>Narratives</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- </span></i>Health literacy</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The workshop will be opened by a keynote
speaker (t.b.a.) and closed with a panel discussion.
During the workshop five other speakers will get the
chance to present their work on Health Communication. We
invite short abstracts of no more than 300 words,
excluding title, author names, keywords, data and
references. Abstracts should be submitted </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">via the following link: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://goo.gl/yY3qZc" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/yY3qZc</a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">. Time
allotted for presentations is 20 minutes, followed by 5
minutes of discussion.</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The official language of the conference is
English.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The deadline for the abstract submission for
both the <span class="il">TABU</span> <span class="il">Dag</span> and the workshop <i>Mass Media Health
Communication</i> is <b>28<span> March 2014</span></b>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Notifications of acceptance will be sent on <b>11
April
2014</b>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Abstracts should be submitted via the following
link: <a href="http://goo.gl/yY3qZc" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/yY3qZc</a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For further information, please visit the
conference website:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <a href="http://www.tabudag.nl" target="_blank">www.tabudag.nl</a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference location: Groningen, The
Netherlands</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contact information: <a href="mailto:tabudag@rug.nl" target="_blank">tabudag@rug.nl</a></span>