ModE4 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION

Fri Jan 29 18:19:58 UTC 2010

Fourth International Conference on Modality in English-ModE4

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September 2010
Departamento de Filología Inglesa I 

http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/se5065/

DEADLINE EXTENSION: 21st FEBRUARY 2010

SECOND CIRCULAR 
The 4th International Conference on Modality in English will take place at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September 2010. 

The conference is designed to be a follow-up to the:
– International Conference on Modality in Contemporary English, University of Verona (Italy), 6-8 September 2001.
– Second International Conference on Modality in English, University of Pau (France), 2-4 September 2004.
– Third International Conference on Modality in English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 4-6 May 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS
ModE4 invites the submission of papers and posters from all (sub)domains of modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. In addition to individual talks, we also welcome proposals for theme sessions. The conference aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between researchers working in modality and evidentiality in English, and to bring to the fore the most recent developments in the field.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp)
Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego)
Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster)
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (University of Ghent)
Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

VENUE
The venue of the conference will be the Facultad de Filología, on the campus of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which is of easy access from the city centre and the hotels. (There are convenient bus links and an underground station on campus).

PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS
Papers and posters are invited on all topics belonging to the field of modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. 

Presentations of papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.

Authors of papers and posters should submit anonymous abstracts, together with a separate page specifying the author's name, affiliation, surface mail address and e-mail address. Abstracts should be between 600-700 words (excluding references), and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. 

All submitted abstracts will go through a double-blind reviewing process (at least two reviewers).

Abstracts should be sent by e-mail, as attachments, to ModE4 (mode4 at filol.ucm.es)
Please use Word or RTF format; and if your abstract contains special symbols, please include a PDF version as well.

The new deadline for all abstracts (papers and posters) is 21 February 2010. 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010.

THEME SESSIONS
There will be three theme sessions at the Conference:
(i) The Modality of Intersubjectivity. This theme session focuses on the identification of the linguistic and non-linguistic (multimodal) overt and covert strategies exploited by the speaker/writer to convey their point, to involve the addressee(s) and, finally, to lead them to share such point. Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenor: Prof. Roberta Facchinetti, Università degli Studi di Verona.

(ii) Modality in English and Spanish: functional and corpus-based perspectives. This theme session will focus on a number of functional and corpus-based aspects of the contrastive study of modality in English and Spanish as a topic of theoretical and applied relevance in a number of research contexts. Modality will be considered as the expression of a number of semantic categories clustered around the notions of speaker’s commitment and non-factuality. Special emphasis will be given to the relationship between modality and evaluative language. Convenor: Prof. Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

(iii) Evidentiality and Modality: Cross-linguistic perspectives. This theme session will focus on corpus-based contrastive studies of evidential and modal markers, on the overlap of the domains of evidentiality and modality, and the interplay of semantic meanings with pragmatic and discourse factors. Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenors: Profs. Juana Marín and Marta Carretero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

The sessions will consist of two one hour and a half slots (maximum 5 papers) focusing on a common topic within modality and/or evidentiality. Each theme session should include a 30-minute slot for final discussion on the topic. 

Abstracts for theme sessions (i) and (iii) should be sent by e-mail, as attachments, to ModE4 (mode4 at filol.ucm.es)

The new deadline for abstracts is 21 February 2010. 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010.

REGISTRATION
Registration will start from April 1 onwards. Registration fees are anticipated to be the following:
Early registration fee (from 1 April 2010 to 31 May 2010): 150 Euros
Students (without salary or grant): 70 Euros 
Late registration fee: 180 Euros 
Students (without salary or grant): 100 Euros

The registration fee includes the conference materials, coffee/tea, the conference reception, and a walking tour to places of interest in Madrid.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME
There will be a reception at the Facultad de Filología on the 8th September. The walking tour of Madrid (included in the registration fee) will take place on the 9th., and the conference dinner on the 10th. On Saturday afternoon there will be a post-conference excursion to Toledo (optional), where we plan to visit the Cathedral, the Sephardic Museum, the Sinagoga de Sta. María la Blanca and the Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz (full details will be given in due course on the conference website).

IMPORTANT DATES
21 February 2010: New deadline for submission of abstracts
31 March 2010: Notification of acceptance
1 April 2010: Early registration starts
1 June 2010: Registration (full fee)

PUBLICATIONS
Conference Proceedings will be published either in a scientific journal or in a book. 
A special volume with selected papers will also be published. 

ModE GENERAL COMMITTEE
- Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp)
- Pierre Busuttil (University of Pau)
- Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona)
- Paul Larreya (University of Paris 13)
- Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Juana I. Marín-Arrese (Chair): juana at filol.ucm.es
- Marta Carretero (Secretary): mcarrete at filol.ucm.es
- Jorge Arús
- Elena Domínguez
- Carmen Maíz Arévalo
- Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa
- Juan Rafael Zamorano

CONTACT
ModE4 Organizing committee:
Departamento de Filología Inglesa I
Facultad de Filología 
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria, s/n
E-28040 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-394-5357/5835/5382
Fax: +34-91-394-5762/5357
E-mail: mode4 at filol.ucm.es

Marta Carretero 
Associate Professor 
Departamento de Filología Inglesa I 
Facultad de Filología 
Universidad Complutense de Madrid 
E-28040-Madrid 
Spain