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<p style="line-height:108%;margin-bottom:2.82mm;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal; font-size: 11pt;">**Due to multiple requests we have now extended our deadline to WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY </span><br>

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<p style="line-height:108%" align="justify"><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">2019.**</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Following our highly successful inaugural conference in 2018 - where delegates from

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">over 20 countries met over two days - we are delighted to welcome submissions for our

</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">second annual conference.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Theme: ‘Lenses, layers and entry points’</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">When: 30-31 May, 2019</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Where: George Square, The University of Edinburgh, UK</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Plenary speaker(s):</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Professor Helen Kelly-Holmes (University of Limerick)</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Professor Constant Leung (King’s College London)</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Call for Papers:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">The Language Policy Forum 2019 invites scholars, practitioners and others to explore

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">various lenses available to us to understand the multiple layers of language policy

</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">processes. Whether an image, a discourse, a practice or an ideology, language policy

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">can be approached via different entry points. These call for different analytical

</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">lenses, which in turn shed light on different layers of language policy. This is the

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Language Policy Forum, a forum for all research about language policy.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">The Language Policy special interest group (</span><a href="http://www.langpol.ac.uk/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk58434" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;font-size:11pt">www.langpol.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">)

 exists to enable such </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">broad and inclusive dialogue. We are open to a wide diversity of fields, including

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">(but by no means limited to) sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, linguistic

</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">ethnography, linguistic anthropology, political philosophy, economics, education

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">studies, globalisation and migration studies.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">For further details of our call, and to submit your proposal, please visit our

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">website:

</span><a href="https://langpol.ac.uk/view/langpol/events/2019-lpf" target="_blank" id="LPlnk973859" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;font-size:11pt">https://langpol.ac.uk/view/langpol/events/2019-lpf</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Please help support the conference by forwarding this message, and retweeting us:

<a href="https://twitter.com/langpolicy/status/1075723039877332992" target="_blank" id="LPlnk731203" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">

</a></span><a href="https://twitter.com/langpolicy/status/1075723039877332992" target="_blank" id="LPlnk422935" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;font-size:11pt">https://twitter.com/langpolicy/status/1075723039877332992</span></a><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">We hope to see you in Edinburgh!</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">All the best,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Elisabeth Barakos, Florence Bonacina-Pugh, Rachel O’Neill, Taehee Choi, Yongcan Liu,

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</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;color:#212121;font-size:11pt">Dave Sayers (LP SIG committee)</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt"><br>

</span><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal;font-size:11pt"><a href="http://www.langpol.ac.uk/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk366698" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">www.langpol.ac.uk</a></span></p>

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