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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Specialized Seminar & pre-seminar workshop</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i>Bringing into Being</i>: Multimodality and cognition in interaction”</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">University of Nottingham Ningbo</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">China</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">June 24</span></b><b><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</span></sup></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -
25</span></b><b><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</span></sup></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, 2018</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are pleased to announce a Specialized Seminar scheduled to take place on <u>Monday June 25</u></span><u><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</span></sup></u><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 2018</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> at
the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, hosted by the School of English. The theme of the seminar is “Bringing into Being: Multimodality and cognition in interaction”. A pre-seminar workshop in gesture studies and multimodal analysis will be offered on
Sunday June 24</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Event website: </span><span lang="EN-US"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:blue">https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/english/research/bib-conference/bringing-into-being-workshop.aspx</span></u></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plenary speakers:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:black">Prof. Cornelia Müller, Chair for
Language Use and Multimodal Communication, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:black">Associate Prof. Thomas Wiben Jensen,
Centre for Human Interactivity, Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bringing into Being</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What role do multimodal resources – head and hand gestures, facial expressions, eye-gaze patterns and posture shifts – play in the gradual processes
of linguistic expression and discourse that characterise our everyday interactions? Which cognitive processes are activated or enabled during such interactive episodes, and how do these processes help people collaborate to achieve communicative and interpersonal
goals in social and professional communication? The theme “Bringing into being” provides the opportunity to address this encounter between multimodality and cognition in interaction. This specialized seminar will therefore be a forum for sharing analyses,
discussing findings, and building theories relevant to several fields, including but not limited to gesture studies, multimodal interaction, face-to-face spoken/signed discourse, cognitive linguistics and cognitive science.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Call for papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We invite contributions from researchers working within any theoretical or methodological perspective that attends to the mutlimodal, interactive or
conceptual processes involved in language use and embodied interaction. Twenty-minute oral presentations that report original research related to the theme of the seminar may include, but are not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:black">Cognitive approaches to language
and gesture</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Multimodal approaches to grammar</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Gesture and conceptualisation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Metaphor/metaphoricity in interaction</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Thinking for speaking/gesturing/interacting</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Multimodality in pragmatics and
discourse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Experimental studies of gesture
and cognition</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Types, forms and functions of gestures/interactive
configurations</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Gesture/sign language interface</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is hoped that an array of perspectives and contexts can be addressed, such as with data from:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
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<li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:black">Social and workplace settings</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Contexts of first and second language
acquisition</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:black">Cross-cultural and intercultural
perspectives</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Situated activity and multiactivity
settings</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Multimodal corpora of various sizes
and scales</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Perspectives from cognitive-neuroscience</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Submission of Abstracts</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please prepare your abstracts following these guidelines:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">300 words maximum</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:black">At the bottom of the abstract,
please include four to six keywords and a list of the references cited in the abstract (keywords and references are not included in the word count; references in APA format).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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color:black">Names and affiliations of the author
should not appear in the abstract, but should be clearly indicated in the accompanying email.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">For formatting, please use Times
New Roman 12 point, single space, and save in .doc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Submit abstracts by the deadline
by email to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:blue">bringingintobeing@nottingham.edu.cn</span></u></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Include ‘abstract submission’ in
the subject of the email </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Deadline for abstract submission: February 28 2018</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Notification sent to applicants: March 2018</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Registration for seminar opens: April 2018</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you are outside of China and plan to submit an abstract and/or attend the seminar, please use the above email address to express your interest as
soon as possible to the organisers, who will brief you on the necessary VISA application process.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pre-seminar workshop</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A pre-seminar workshop on Gesture Studies and Multimodal Analysis, run by the local organizing committee, is scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday 24</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> June.
Topics to be addressed include recurrency in language and gesture; multimodal aspects of grammar; form, organization and function of gesture in (embodied) interaction; gesture and cognition; methodological issues and tools in gesture studies/multimodal analysis;
building multimodal corpora. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Conference Venue</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) was the first Sino-foreign university. It is located in Ningbo, one of China’s major ports and economic
centers in Zhejiang province. Ningbo is a rapidly growing city, ranked in the top ten of cities for business in China by Forbes, it is a thriving blend of enterprise, culture, education, tradition and entertainment. It is well connected for national and international
travel, for example, with Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hong Kong all less than three hours away (by train/plane).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scientific Committee</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Dominique Boutet (Université de
Rouen-Normandie, Laboratory Dylis)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit
Amstedam & Moscow State Linguistic University)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES">Vito Evola (Universidade
Nova de Lisboa)</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Jeannette Littlemore (University
of Birmingham)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Renia Lopez (Hong Kong Polytechnic
University)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES">Leland McCleary
(Universidade de São Paulo)</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Lorenza Mondada (Univeristy of
Basel)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Aug Nishizaka (Chiba University)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Magdalena Rybarczyk (University
of Nottingham Ningbo China)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Jürgen Streeck (The University
of Texas at Austin)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Steven Schoonjans (KU Leuven and
Universität Innsbruck)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Hannah Svensson (Univeristy of
Basel)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Dawei Wei (University of Nottingham
Ningbo China)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Jordan Zlatev (Lund University)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li></ul>
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Local Organising Committee</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Chair: Simon Harrison</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Co-chair: Yu-Hua Chen</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Margaret Gillon Dowens</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Dan Shi</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Michael Paul Stevens</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Candace Veecock</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:black">Stephanie Zhao</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</li></ul>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">For all enquiries, please email </span><span lang="EN-US"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:blue">bringingintobeing@nottingham.edu.cn</span></u></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Funding and partners</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This knowledge exchange activity is organized in connection with the Corpus of Chinese Academic Written and Spoken English (CAWSE) (</span><span lang="EN-US"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:blue">https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/english/research/cawse/cawse-corpus.aspx</span></u><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span></u></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
A Conference Hosting Support Scheme grant was awarded by the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee (University of Nottingham Ningbo China). Our other partners include:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black">The School of English (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:blue">http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/english/index.aspx)</span></u></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</li><li style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black">The Centre for Research in Applied
Linguistics China (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:blue">http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/research/centres/cralc/index.aspx)</span></u></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
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"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black">The Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
Laboratory (UNNC)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
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"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black">The Institute of Asia and Pacific
Studies (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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