Linguistics and Poetics symposium

[Maxim Stamenov]

         Second Announcement and Call for Papers

     International Symposium "Linguistics and Poetics"
               (to honor Roman Jakobson)

           May 24-26, 1996, Sofia, BULGARIA

ORGANIZED BY: Academic Slavic Society, Sofia University,
Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the symposium will be to discuss some
of the most seminal contributions of Roman Jakobson to the
fields of linguistics and poetics. They include (but are not
limited to) an analysis of the relationships between
signirier/signified and structure/function in the
comprehension and production of different types of texts,
the hierarchies of language functions in written and oral
texts of different type, the strategies for selection and
combination of language units in the text, the aspects of
the poetics of morphology and syntax, etc., in the context
of the interdisciplinary investigations of text production,
comprehension, and interpretation at the end of the XXth
century.

INVITED SPEAKERS include:
Rosanna Benacchio (Italy)
Alexander Bondarko (Russia)
Catherine Chvany (USA)
Frantisek Danes (Czech Republic)
Karl Gutschmidt (Germany)
Boris Norman (Bialorussia)
Ricardo Picchio (Italy)
Catherine Rudin (USA)
Ludmila Uhlirova (Czech Republic)

LANGUAGES: all Slavic languages, English and German.

DEADLINE for submission of paper abstracts: February 29,
1996 .

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: The abstracts (in hard copy only)
of approx. 200 words, in four copies with the title and
author's name and affiliation, should be sent to the
organizers at the postal address given below by the deadline
of February 29, 1996. The notification of acceptance will
reach the  authors of accepted papers not later than March
15, 1996.

FEES: The regular conference fee is 20 USD. The fee is
waived for the participants from the countries of Central
and Eastern Europe.

ACCOMODATION: Hotel accommodation (single room) is available
at 40 USD (breakfast included); double room - 25 USD per
person (breakfast included).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS:

Postal address: Iskra Likomanova,  Institute for Bulgarian
Language, Shipchenski Prohod 52, bl. 17, Sofia 1113,
BULGARIA

E-mail: Maxim Stamenov at maxstam at bgearn.bitnet;

Fax: Lili Lashkova at 00359-2-463589 Sofia University.