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<p class="MsoTitle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:24.0pt">Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań 2012</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoTitle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">YLMP2012, 25–27 May 2012, Poznań, Poland</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoTitle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ylmp.pl">www.ylmp.pl</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoTitle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl">ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">YLMP2012 Congress: Call for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">We are happy to announce that the Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP2012) will take place</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">on 25–27 May 2012 in Poznań, Poland. The Meeting will be organised by the School of English,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"ArialBlack","serif"">Submissions</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">The leitmotif of the YLMP2012 Congress will be
<i>Language in context(s).</i> Proposals of papers related to this main theme, as well as to other fields of modern linguistics, are invited.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">The suggested research areas for block sessions are as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>psycholinguistics / neurolinguistics / clinical linguistics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>cognitive linguistics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>sociolinguistics<br>
>historical linguistics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>language and meaning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>language and gesture</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>language and technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>language teaching methodology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>lexicography</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">>translation studies<br>
>language and gender<br>
>language and sexuality</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">We are also planning to organise a formal session. However, final decisions regarding the session will depend on the number of prospective participants
willing to take part in it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Each paper will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. There will also be poster sessions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">The language of the congress is English.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Apart from block sessions, there will also be plenary lectures, delivered by our keynote speakers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Keynote speakers</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> already confirmed:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & Marcin Kilarski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit/VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Michal Starke, University of Tromsø, Norway<br>
Gerlinde Mautner, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Dennis Preston, Oklahoma State University, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Kevin Harvey, The University of Nottingham, UK</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">There will also be
<b>thematic workshop sessions</b>. The areas we want to concentrate on are neurolinguistics/clinical linguistics, lexicography, corpus linguistics, language teaching methodology and language and gender/sexuality.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">The workshop organiser(s) will be local as well as foreign specialists in the above mentioned fields.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">We are happy to announce that a
<b>panel </b>devoted to <b>Language and Communication in Media and Political Contexts</b> will take place during YLMP2012. Please go to
<a href="http://www.ylmp.pl/programme.html">www.ylmp.pl/programme.html</a> and then to the ‘panels’ bookmark for more details.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Due to numerous requests, we decided to postpone
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the main submission deadline to 2<sup>nd</sup> March 2012</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Notification of acceptance for papers and posters: 20<sup>th</sup> March 2012</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Registration deadline: 16<sup>th</sup> April 2012</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"ArialBlack","serif"">Congress fee:
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">€</span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"ArialBlack","serif"">35</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"ArialBlack","serif"">The venue</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Collegium Biologicum, is located in the city of Poznań (more specifically on a university campus Morasko). The CB building
has lecture halls and computer labs. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Please visit our website for more exhaustive and up-to-date information.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Looking forward to seeing you in Poznań!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"ArialBlack","serif"">Honorary Organiser:
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Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"ArialBlack","serif"">YLMP 2012 Congress Organising Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Joanna Pawelczyk<br>
Łukasz Pakuła<br>
Dorota Jaworska</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"ArialBlack","serif"">Contact details:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">YLMP2012 Congress Organising Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Collegium Novum</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">al. Niepodległości 4</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">61-874 Poznań, Poland</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">tel: (+48 61) 829 3506</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">fax: (+48 61) 852 3103</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">email:
<a href="mailto:ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl">ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""><a href="http://www.ylmp.pl">www.ylmp.pl</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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