From srice at ualberta.ca Tue May 1 02:20:38 2012 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:20:38 -0600 Subject: First Call: 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (23-28 June 2013 at the University of Alberta) Message-ID: *ICLC 12: First Call for Abstracts* The *12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC)* will be held on 23-28 June 2013 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This is the first time the conference will be held in Canada––it was last held in North America in 2001 (UCSB). Since then, meetings have been held in Spain (2003), Korea (2005), Poland (2007), and China (2011). The *deadline* for submission of abstracts is Thursday, *1 November 2012*. The overall theme of the conference is *COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AT 25*, with three sub-themes: · *LOOKING BACK*: We take stock of the past 25 years in cognitive linguistics. The year 2013 marks nearly 25 years since the 1989 Duisburg conference that solidified the cognitive linguistics approach, reified it in name, and established the journal, *Cognitive Linguistics*. · *LOOKING FORWARD*: We consider the next generation of cognitive linguistics research. · *LOOKING OUTWARD*: We look to understudied populations and applications, particularly in regard to endangered languages and signed languages. We invite a broad range of papers taking a cognitive, functional, typological, and discourse approach to the study of language and cognition in relation to body, culture, and context of use, as well as those focusing on the history, present state, and future of the cognitive linguistics movement. The range of topics has typically included (but is not limited to): *categorization, prototypes, and polysemy* *Cognitive and Construction Grammars* *cognitive corpus linguistics* *cognitive phonology* *cognitive semantics* *discourse and grammar, text and discourse* *domains and frame semantics* *embodiment and situated cognition* *empirical methods in cognitive linguistics* *grammaticalization, language evolution, and change* *image schemas and force dynamics* *language development, impairment, attrition, and loss* *linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax* *metaphor and metonymy* *mental spaces and conceptual blending* *neural models of language* *signed languages, gesture, and modality* *usage-based approaches* *Plenary Speakers* *Joan Bybee*, University of New Mexico *Nick Evans*, Australian National University *Ron Langacker*, University of California, San Diego *Elena Lieven*, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig *Hongyin Tao*, University of California, Los Angeles *Ulrike Zeshan*, University of Central Lancashire *General Plan for the Conference* The conference schedule is designed to strike a balance between a well-attended conference with lively participation and a coherent, well-integrated one. Therefore, we are limiting the number of parallel sessions during the general session to six, shortening the presentation slots from 30 minutes to 20 minutes, ensuring that theme sessions and the general session do not overlap, and increasing the number of poster presentations. We hope ample unstructured time will encourage focused and inclusive communication among participants as we all consider *Cognitive Linguistics at 25. *There will be the usual excursions and conference banquet on the Wednesday afternoon and evening of the conference. We have scheduled two “open fora” during the late afternoon of the Monday and Tuesday of the conference that will be moderated, but which are also meant to stimulate open discussion. The Monday forum will focus on the last 25 years and the contributions of (or the failed promises of) the cognitive linguistics movement, while the Tuesday forum will focus on the directions in which cognitive linguistics seems to be moving. Please contact the conference organizers if you would like to moderate or participate on one of the forum panels. Given the silver jubilee theme, we also invite participants and other interested parties to submit captioned photographs from past conferences. There will be an *In Memoriam* presentation during the conference honoring cognitive linguists we have lost since 1989. If you wish to contribute a name or personal tribute, please contact the conference organizers. *General Session and Poster Session* The language of the conference is English. Platform presentations will be allocated 20 minutes, which includes questions and discussion. Posters will stay up for a day and be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions over the lunch break. Light refreshments or boxed lunches will be available for purchase. *Theme Sessions* All theme sessions will take place during the weekend preceding the conference or on the Monday and Thursday nights of the conference week. We encourage theme session organizers to submit theme session titles and detailed proposals for either 6-hour sessions (Sunday) or 3-hour sessions (Monday or Thursday nights) directly to the conference organizers, along with the names of authors and titles of the individual papers. Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts directly for review (see below).** *Abstract Submission* General (parallel) session talks will be 20 minutes in length, including discussion. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint, regardless of whether they are intended for the general or a special theme session. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through *Easy Abstracts* (*EasyAbs*). The submission period is 1 August–1 November. Abstract length must not exceed 500 words (excluding title, data, and references). Be mindful that authors will only have 20 minutes to present their work, including questions, so please limit the scope of your presentation accordingly. Abstracts will be subjected to blind review by a minimum of two referees from an international Scientific Committee, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author]). Authors must include the following information on the *EasyAbs*web page: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); (3) postal address, email address, and phone number; (4) five keywords that describe the research; and (5) preference for oral or poster presentation (or either). Authors should use 11-point font and upload .pdf versions of their abstracts to preserve special formatting or fonts. Abstracts must be submitted through *Easy Abstracts* (*EasyAbs*) starting on 1 August 2012. Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scope, relevance, originality, methodology, and strength of conclusions. Please direct all inquiries to * iclc2013 at ualberta.ca*. *Important Dates* Abstract submission becomes available on *EasyAbs*: General and theme session abstract submission deadline: Notice of acceptance: Final accepted abstract submission for conference program: Early registration deadline: Registration deadline (on-site registration will be available at a substantial surcharge): Conference dates: 1 August 2012 *1 November 2012* 1 January 2013 1 March 2013 1 April 2013 1 June 2013 23-28 June 2013 *Conference Organizers* Sally Rice and John Newman, University of Alberta *Contact Information* email: *iclc2013 at ualberta.ca* website: *www.foa.ualberta.ca/iclc2013* -- Dr. Sally Rice Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics 4-60 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780.492.5500 fax: +780.492.0806 sally.rice at ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/~srice From jrosesla at uwo.ca Tue May 1 04:18:50 2012 From: jrosesla at uwo.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Emilio_Ros=E9s_Labrada?=) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 00:18:50 -0400 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Latin_American_Contexts_for_Language_Documentation?= =?windows-1252?Q?_and_Revitalization=94?= Message-ID: ** Please see the new deadline for this special session to be held at the LSA Annual Meeting (Our apologies for cross-postings) *“Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization” * *****EXTENDED DEADLINE***** *Call for Abstracts* Joint LSA-SSILA session entitled “Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization” for the 2013 Annual Meeting To be held during the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA from 3 to 6 January 2013, this panel’s main goal is to broaden the discussion initiated by the 2013 session entitled “From Language Documentation to Language Revitalization”, to address the particulars of language documentation and revitalization in Latin America. *Rationale. * While there has been a significant increase in the awareness of the needs, best practices, and goals of language documentation projects in the field of linguistics, the focus has been predominately on North American languages (especially within the US). The greatest genetic diversity in languages is found in Latin America, home to over 100 distinct language families and isolates. Language communities range from sizeable communities of languages with official status such as certain varieties of Guaraní, Quechua and Aymara, to communities of highly endangered languages with limited attention from communities, scholars and governments, as is the case of many Mesoamerican and Amazonian languages. The context in which language documentation might be conducted throughout Latin American and the challenges facing revitalization efforts are unique and cannot be extrapolated from the North American experience. This session therefore intends to give the Latin American context the focus and attention it requires by highlighting the key differences and needs for communities outside the US. It is understood that language documentation and revitalization in Latin America present complex issues and challenges which range across disciplines and sub-disciplines, and which have the potential to alter the methodologies, processes and expected outcomes in documenting and revitalizing languages in this part of the world. This session will address the various factors affecting language documentation and revitalization and will feature six case studies selected through competitive abstract submission to highlight the various ways in which these factors interact, and to provide broad geographic coverage. The following is a list of issues and challenges language documenters and/or activists may face while working in Latin America. The list is just suggestive rather than comprehensive and it is intended to provide you with clues of some of the factors that might be worth exploring. 1. Resources a. Community-internal resources range from limited to non-existent in Latin American societies many of which are dependent on subsistence agriculture, hunter-gathering, or, small scale trade and services. b. State and federal resources, if available, are generally very limited and not efficiently administered. c. Technology-enabled access is not a given in a substantial portion of Latin American communities. d. Access to resources (e.g. grants, archives, telecommunications, academic scholars, training) for community members not residing in major urban areas is generally extremely limited e. Resources might only be available in dominant languages such as Spanish or English making access to conferences, training and other resources restricted to monolingual speakers of any given language. Even bilingual speakers of their language and Spanish or Portuguese are shut out of English-based resources and exchange opportunities such as most US based conferences and training opportunities. 2. Community engagement and motivation a. Cultural constructs and/or social priorities may not allow for community-wide acknowledgement of a language endangerment situation. b. Different degrees of language vitality may lead to different levels of community engagement and motivation. c. Subsistence, cultural and social priorities may interfere with the ability to develop partnerships between community members and external researchers. 3. Linguistic and dialectal diversity a. Linguistic diversity is uniquely complex in Latin America with concentrations of numerous dialectal varieties or even mutually unintelligible and/or genetically unrelated languages in small geographic areas demand very high investments in intellectual and economic resources to ensure impact. 4. Literacy and institutionalized education a. Widespread institutionalized education is relatively recent in many areas in Latin America. b. Widespread literacy cannot be assumed. 5. Expected outcomes and outcome formats a. Factors 1 to 4 above require small scale, customized strategies and national level approaches along the lines of a national or even a regional Breath of Life are not feasible. b. Success in documentation and revitalization is a notion that needs to be customized based on the case specific interaction of Factors 1 to 4. c. Language communities in Latin America are complex and often have different agendas for language revitalization which will often not include formal education or extra-curricular educational programs. 6. Geographic distance a. Location of a given community and access to it with regards to the researcher’s place of residence may compromise the continuity of collaborative documentation and especially, of collaborative revitalization efforts. 7. Ethics, human subjects, and IRB requirements a. Most Latin American societies do not share the concerns that significantly condition a North-America-based researcher’s ability to conduct language documentation or to access funding to support it. b. IRB requirements such as signed consent forms may be misinterpreted by centuries-old experiences of abuse through administrative devices such as written and signed documents, and may be a source of distrust. * * *Guidelines* Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute discussion period (or shorter depending on number of submissions). Based on participants’ interest, a poster session might be added to the special session. Please submit your abstract in keeping with LSA 2013 Annual Meeting Abstract Guidelines and Specifications available at http://lsadc.org/info/meet-annual13-abguide.cfm, by e-mail attachment (as Word, RTF or PDF files – please use PDF if there are any potential problems with fonts) to documentation.revitalization at gmail.com. Please write ‘ABSTRACT FOR LSA-SSILA SPECIAL SESSION’ in the subject line. Make the abstract as anonymous as possible, and include a title. In the body of your e-mail message, include the following: • Title of the abstract: • Word count • Author(s): • Affiliation(s): • Date submitted: The ***extended*** deadline for submission of abstracts is *May 5, 2012*. The anonymous abstracts will be refereed by the panel organizing committee, and authors will be notified of inclusion to the proposed session by May 15. A final decision of LSA-SSILA acceptance of the special session falls outside of the organizers’ control and will be communicated to authors by late August/early September. *Panel organizing committee:* Gabriela Pérez Báez, Smithsonian Institution, perezbaezg at si.edu Chris Rogers, University of Utah, chris.rogers at utah.edu Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada, University of Western Ontario, jrosesla at uwo.ca Further information regarding the 87th LSA Annual Meeting can be found at http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm From tpayne at uoregon.edu Wed May 2 16:36:39 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:36:39 -0700 Subject: Books available for review Message-ID: The list of books available for review in Studies in Language has been updated. See: http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/BooksAvailable-04-2012.pdf Some typos have been fixed, a couple of titles have been removed, and the following one has been added: Asudeh, Ash. 2012. The logic of pronominal resumption [Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics]. Oxford University Press. I would also like to call your attention to the following book that will be of particular interest to recipients of this list, and readers of Studies in Language: Malchukov, Andrej & Anna Siewierska (eds.). 2011. Impersonal constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series 124]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Book reviews are a maximum of 4,000 words in length, and are due five months after you receive the book. If you submit a publishable review by the target date, the book will be yours to keep. Studies in Language (SL) provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Abstracts in English Studies; Cultures, Langues, Textes; European Reference Index for the Humanities; Germanistik; Humanities Index; IBR/IBZ; Linguistics Abstracts; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique; LLBA; MLA International Bibliography, Translation Studies Abstracts Online. From pekka.posio at helsinki.fi Sun May 6 14:48:48 2012 From: pekka.posio at helsinki.fi (Pekka Posio) Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 17:48:48 +0300 Subject: CFP: EXTENDED DEADLINE 21.5. Grammar and Genre, Turku, October 24-26 Message-ID: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences October 24th – 26th, 2012 Turku, Finland The Linguistic Association of Finland (in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of Åbo Akademi University) Variation is one of the key themes in modern grammatical studies, and its investigation highlights the role of contextual factors in the structure of language. These factors can be on many levels and of many different types. The mere genre to which a text belongs potentially dictates a variety of linguistic structures. (For studies about genre see e.g. Bakhtin 1986 to begin with, and more recently Martin & Rose 2008, Biber & Conrad 2009, and Dorgeloh & Wanner 2010.) This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome. We would like to bring together linguists from different fields: linguists studying languages with a small number of speakers, linguists whose data come from languages with millions of speakers and a wide variety of institutionalized genres, theoretically oriented linguists to discuss the implications, as well as linguists with more empirical concerns. We warmly welcome papers related to these questions. Possible topics for talks include, but, as usual, are not restricted to, the following: - How does the grammarian take into account the belonging of the data to a certain genre? If the available data is restricted to a particular genre, how does this affect the results? How does the field worker react to this? - How does the linguist identify the genre in question? - Why do some grammatical constructions appear only in a specific genre? - Is grammar one and only for a given language? How do we account for Coseriu’s distinction sistema - norma social/individual - hablar concreto in empirical, data-driven linguistics? - How can we use the outcomes of stylistics in modern grammatical studies (cf. Bally’s stylistics a century ago), that is not only in the literary sense but to explore variation in grammar? What is the relationship between genre and style? - How does the speaker manipulate grammar to create a genre? - The concept of genre and language learning - Genre in different domains - Genre and language evolution - Genre and language contacts: Does genre play a role in code switching? Invited plenary speakers: Maarten Mous, Leiden University Maria Vilkuna, Institute for the Languages of Finland Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, Åbo Akademi University Anja Wanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientific committee: Heidrun Dorgeloh Kjersti Fløttum Jyrki Kalliokoski Ritva Laury Jan Nuyts María José Serrano Susanna Shore Anna Solin Geoff Thompson Organizing committee: Meri Larjavaara Sonja Dahlgren Arja Hamari Leena Maria Heikkola Lotta Jalava Santra Jantunen Pekka Posio Ilona Rauhala Erika Sandman Maija Sirola Elina Tapio Mikko Virtanen Katja Västi Milja Väänänen Abstract submission: Please send your abstract no later than April 30, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding data and references). Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee and also by the organizing committee. Letters of acceptance will be sent by June 5, 2012. Key dates: – EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstract submission: MAY 21, 2012 – Notification of acceptance: JUNE 15, 2012 Activities: – Presentations by the invited speakers – Presentations by other participants – Posters – Workshops References: Bakhtin, M. 1986: Speech genres and other late essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton. Martin, J. R. & D. Rose 2008: Genre relations. Mapping culture. London: Equinox. For more information please visit the webpage of the symposium at https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre From jef.verschueren at ua.ac.be Wed May 9 14:21:45 2012 From: jef.verschueren at ua.ac.be (Verschueren Jef) Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 14:21:45 +0000 Subject: 13th International Pragmatics Conference Message-ID: 13th International Pragmatics Conference New Delhi, India, 8-13 September 2013 All info and call for papers at http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13&n=1438. Note the deadlines: - 15 June 2012 for early submission of panel proposals (allowing for revision if necessary) - 15 September 2012, final deadline for panel proposals - 1 November 2012, deadline for panel contributions, lectures, and posters Please read the instructions in the ´Call for papers´ carefully well in advance of the deadlines. The special theme of this edition is Narrative pragmatics: Culture, cognition, context. But as always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication). Plenary speakers will be announced before September 2012. CONFERENCE CHAIR: Rukmini BHAYA NAIR (Indian Institute of Technology) LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are: Ramakant AGNIHOTRI (University of Delhi, Delhi), Ashraf BHAT (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Bijoy BORUAH (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Shubha CHAKRABORTY (Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Probal DASGUPTA (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Peter DE SOUZA (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla), Mushirul HASAN (National Archives of India, New Delhi), Ravinder KAUR (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Dipti KULKARNI (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Girishwar MISRA (University of Delhi, Delhi), Mohan RAMANAN (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad), V. SANIL (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Purnima SINGH (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Ashok THORAT (Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes two members of the Manchester (2011) Local Site Committee, the IPrA President and IPrA Secretary General, as well as a number of members of the IPrA Consultation Board: Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough, UK), Josie BERNICOT (Poitiers, France), Barbara BOKUS (Warsaw, Poland), Diana BOXER (Gainesvillle, USA), Winnie CHENG (Hong Kong, China), Anita FETZER (Würzburg, Germany), Janet HOLMES (Wellington, New Zealand), Sachiko IDE (Tokyo, Japan), Cornelia ILIE (Malmö, Sweden), Dennis KURZON (Haifa, Israel), Sophia MARMARIDOU (Athens, Greece), Rosina MARQUEZ REITER (Surrey,UK), Jacob MEY (Odense, Denmark), Maj-Britt MOSEGAARD HANSEN (Manchester, UK), Lynne MURPHY (University of Sussex), Neal NORRICK (Saarbrücken, Germany), Jan-Ola ÖSTMAN (Helsinki, Finland), Marina SBISÀ (Trieste, Italy), Jef VERSCHUEREN (University of Antwerp), Tuija VIRTANEN (Abo, Finland), John WILSON (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) Venue: INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, the premier state-of-the-art conference center in central New Delhi. From Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Thu May 10 06:39:59 2012 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:39:59 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 (contrastive linguistics / corpus-based translation studies) - UGent, 2013 Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to announce ICLC 7 – UCCTS 3, an international event combining in a single venue the latest editions of two conference series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Between them, ICLC 7 and UCCTS 3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries. Date: July 10-13, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), “Het Pand” Contact: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be INVITED SPEAKERS: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues: - The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics - The aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of 'risk aversion'), the 'dominance' of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables - Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research - The role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the 'socio-cultural link' - Types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc.; the need to account for convergences as well as divergences - The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics) - Contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure - The effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses SUBMISSIONS: Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3. Abstracts must be anonymous throughout, written in English, and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012 Notifications of acceptance: December 15, 2012 From langconf at bu.edu Fri May 11 00:28:46 2012 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:28:46 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 37 - Abstract Submission Deadline Reminder Message-ID: We would like to remind you that the deadline for abstract submissions for the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development is May 15, 2012 at 8pm EST. You may submit your abstract online at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. Thank you. BUCLD Organizers From tpayne at uoregon.edu Fri May 11 22:01:13 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 15:01:13 -0700 Subject: Books available for review in Studies in Language Message-ID: The list of books available for review in Studies in Language has again been updated. Please check the list and let me know if you would be willing to review one of these books. http:// http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/BooksAvailable-05-2012.pdf With your request, please include a brief statement of why you want to review a particular book, a link to a CV or other web page that indicates your qualifications as a reviewer, and a postal address where you would like to receive the book. Format and content guidelines for Book Reviews and Review Articles can be found at http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/SLstylesheet.pdf. Reviews will be due five months after receipt of the book. Please consider participating in the dialog of our discipline by reviewing one or more of these books. Thomas E. Payne (tpayne at uoregon.edu) Review Editor Studies in Language http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=SL From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sat May 12 08:38:51 2012 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 01:38:51 -0700 Subject: Acocella piece in The New Yorker Message-ID: Joan Acocella has a review of Henry Hitchings' "The Language Wars" in this week's New Yorker. It stinks. Real bad. She can't tell the difference between prescriptive and descriptive rules. She accuses Hitchings of making illogical arguments and then makes several of her own (accepting language change is tantamount to going back to the dentistry of Samuel Johnson's time???) She equates vernacular languages with slang. I've rarely seen anything this bad in the NYer. I sent in a response letter. Jo Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Tel. 805.756.2184 Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ************************************************ "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West From john at research.haifa.ac.il Sat May 12 08:48:08 2012 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john) Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 11:48:08 +0300 Subject: Acocella piece in The New Yorker In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Jo, there are frequently very bad things in the New Yorker. It's just that in this case you're a specialist so you know that it's bad. The entire idea of the New Yorker is trying to write literary and accessible pieces on 'high' topics for non-specialists, so this sort of thing is inevitable. John On 12.05.2012 11:38, Johanna Rubba wrote: > Joan Acocella has a review of Henry Hitchings' "The Language Wars" in > this week's New Yorker. It stinks. Real bad. She can't tell the > difference between prescriptive and descriptive rules. She accuses > Hitchings of making illogical arguments and then makes several of her > own (accepting language change is tantamount to going back to the > dentistry of Samuel Johnson's time???) She equates vernacular > languages with slang. I've rarely seen anything this bad in the NYer. > > I sent in a response letter. > > Jo > > Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics > Linguistics Minor Advisor > English Department > Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo > Tel. 805.756.2184 > Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 > E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu > URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba > ************************************************ > "Justice is what love looks like in public." > - Cornel West From jtolstad at gmail.com Sun May 13 13:56:55 2012 From: jtolstad at gmail.com (John Olstad) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 22:56:55 +0900 Subject: Acocella piece in The New Yorker In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I would love to read your letter. Her review made me sad by existing. Much of it was in 'not even wrong' territory. -- John Olstad University of Newcastle (University at Buffalo/National Science Foundation, USA Independent researcher) From nstern at ccny.cuny.edu Sun May 13 21:06:52 2012 From: nstern at ccny.cuny.edu (Nancy Stern) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 17:06:52 -0400 Subject: William Diver / One-Day Conference: May 31 Message-ID: *You are invited to a one-day conference marking the publication of:* * * *Language: Communication and Human Behavior* *The Linguistic Essays of William Diver* Edited by Alan Huffman & Joseph Davis Brill Publishers Faculty House, Columbia University May 31, 2012 *Event is free of charge, but pre-registration is required. Send a message * *to *conf2012 at csling.org 9:45 *Greetings * 9:55 *Introduction of volume editors Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis (Wallis Reid, Rutgers University)* 10:00 - 10:45 *"A Beginning Point, not an End Point" *(Alan Huffman, CUNY Graduate Center) 10:50 - 11:20 *"God is not in the Index" *(Joseph Davis, The City College of New York) 11:20 - 11:50 Discussion 11:50 - 12:20 An informal discussion by editors Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis about the evolution of the Diver volume 12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 2:30 *“Diver's ideas from an anthropological perspective" *(Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia) 2:30 - 3:00 Discussion of Contini-Morava's paper followed by contributions from the audience on the topic of Diver's ideas and their impact. 3:15 - 4:00 *“Diver's ideas from a sociolinguistic perspective” (Ricardo, Otheguy, CUNY Graduate Center)* 4:00 - 4:30 Discussion of Otheguy's paper followed by contributions from the audience 4:30 - 5:00 Personal reminiscences of Diver from his students 5:00 - 6:00 RECEPTION This event is sponsored by Columbia University Seminars and the Columbia School Linguistic Society (www.csling.org). *For more information or to register for the event, write to conf2012 at csling.org* From jpeterson at isfas.uni-kiel.de Tue May 15 12:21:33 2012 From: jpeterson at isfas.uni-kiel.de (John Peterson) Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:21:33 +0200 Subject: Juniorprofessur in Kiel: "Typologie und sprachliche Variation" Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings!) Dear Colleagues, Below you will find the job description (in German) for an opening at our department as of 1 October 2012 in the area "Typology and Linguistic Variation". As the position requires an active knowledge of German, I have left it in the German original. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who you feel is qualified and interested! Best, John ____________________________________________________________________________ Die Christian-Albrechts-Universität will mehr qualifizierte Frauen für Professuren gewinnen. Am Institut für Skandinavistik, Frisistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ISFAS) der Philosophischen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel ist zum 1. Oktober 2012 eine Juniorprofessur (W 1) für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft im Beamtenverhältnis auf Zeit für zunächst drei Jahre zu besetzen. Die/Der zukünftige Stelleninhaber/-in soll das Fachgebiet „Typologie und sprachliche Variation“ in Forschung und Lehre vertreten. Die Juniorprofessorin/Der Juniorprofessor soll Lehr- und Betreuungsaufgaben in den einschlägigen Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen am Institut für Skandinavistik, Frisistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ISFAS) übernehmen. Erwartet wird auch die Beteiligung an der universitären Selbstverwaltung. Die/Der Bewerber/-in sollte vorzugsweise ein abgeschlossenes Studium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft vorweisen. Neben dem Bereich Sprachtypologie sind fundierte Kenntnisse in mehreren der folgenden Bereiche erwünscht: Soziolinguistik, Sprachkontakt, Mehrsprachigkeit, Feldforschung, Schriftsprache/gesprochene Sprache Im Hinblick auf die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit innerhalb der Philosophischen Fakultät wird ein Interesse an linguistischen und psychologischen Fragestellungen vorausgesetzt. Eine Zusammenarbeit mit den Forschungszentren „Arealität und Sozialität in der Sprache“ und „Stimme und Emotion“ ist ausdrücklich erwünscht. Erfahrungen mit dem Einwerben von Drittmitteln sind von Vorteil. Auf die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen des § 64 des Hochschulgesetzes des Landes Schleswig-Holstein wird hingewiesen. Nähere Informationen hierzu finden Sie auf der Homepage www.uni-kiel.de unter dem Stichwort „Berufungsverfahren“. Die Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel ist bestrebt, den Anteil der Wissenschaftlerinnen in Forschung und Lehre zu erhöhen und fordert deshalb entsprechend qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Frauen werden bei gleichwertiger Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Leistung vorrangig berücksichtigt. Die Hochschule setzt sich für die Beschäftigung schwer behinderter Menschen ein. Daher werden schwer behinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Schriftenverzeichnis, Verzeichnis der Lehrveranstaltungen, Kopien akademischer Zeugnisse) werden unter Angabe der Privat- und Dienstadresse mit Telefonnummer und E-Mail bis zum 15. Juni 2012 erbeten an das Dekanat der Philosophischen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Olshausenstraße 40 24098 Kiel -- "Neurolinguists beware! The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person." François Grosjean (1989) John Peterson Institut für Skandinavistik, Frisistik & Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft - Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Olshausenstraße 40 D-24098 Kiel Germany Tel.: (+49) (0)431-880 2414 Fax: (+49) (0)431-880 7405 Homepage: http://www.SouthAsiaBibliography.de/ From mvera at dfm.ulpgc.es Wed May 30 12:23:54 2012 From: mvera at dfm.ulpgc.es (=?utf-8?b?TWFyw61hIA==?= =?utf-8?b?SmVzw7pz?= Vera Cazorla) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:23:54 +0100 Subject: Revista de Lenguas para Fines Especificos. CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ISSN: 1133-1127 Call for papers LFE, 19 (Autumn, 2013) 20th Anniversary Issue Special Issue: Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of languages for specific purposes/Aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) y didactica de la enseñanza de lenguas para fines específicos Guest editors: Marta Nadales Ruiz, University Complutense Madrid, Mª Luisa Pérez-Cañado, University of Jaén and Mª Jesús Vera-Cazorla, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria In this special 20th anniversary issue, the Journal Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (LFE) invites submissions both in Spanish and English of original full-length articles from scholars in the field of English on Content and Language Integrated Learning and on the Teaching of Languages for Specific Purposes. Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words, including references and notes, and should be submitted electronically using the Internet form you will find on the journal webpage. Prospective authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines for submissions in the journal webpage. Contributions submitted to LFE should not be under consideration in any other journal. All submissions will be subject to our peer-review process, and the last decision regarding the publication of contributions falls on the General Editors. For further queries on this special issue, you may contact us via email: lfe(at)ulpgc.es Important dates: Submission deadline: 20 March 2013 Readers' reports due: 15 May 2013 Final draft due: 30 June 2013 Publication: Autumn 2013 From srice at ualberta.ca Tue May 1 02:20:38 2012 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:20:38 -0600 Subject: First Call: 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (23-28 June 2013 at the University of Alberta) Message-ID: *ICLC 12: First Call for Abstracts* The *12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC)* will be held on 23-28 June 2013 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This is the first time the conference will be held in Canada??it was last held in North America in 2001 (UCSB). Since then, meetings have been held in Spain (2003), Korea (2005), Poland (2007), and China (2011). The *deadline* for submission of abstracts is Thursday, *1 November 2012*. The overall theme of the conference is *COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AT 25*, with three sub-themes: ? *LOOKING BACK*: We take stock of the past 25 years in cognitive linguistics. The year 2013 marks nearly 25 years since the 1989 Duisburg conference that solidified the cognitive linguistics approach, reified it in name, and established the journal, *Cognitive Linguistics*. ? *LOOKING FORWARD*: We consider the next generation of cognitive linguistics research. ? *LOOKING OUTWARD*: We look to understudied populations and applications, particularly in regard to endangered languages and signed languages. We invite a broad range of papers taking a cognitive, functional, typological, and discourse approach to the study of language and cognition in relation to body, culture, and context of use, as well as those focusing on the history, present state, and future of the cognitive linguistics movement. The range of topics has typically included (but is not limited to): *categorization, prototypes, and polysemy* *Cognitive and Construction Grammars* *cognitive corpus linguistics* *cognitive phonology* *cognitive semantics* *discourse and grammar, text and discourse* *domains and frame semantics* *embodiment and situated cognition* *empirical methods in cognitive linguistics* *grammaticalization, language evolution, and change* *image schemas and force dynamics* *language development, impairment, attrition, and loss* *linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax* *metaphor and metonymy* *mental spaces and conceptual blending* *neural models of language* *signed languages, gesture, and modality* *usage-based approaches* *Plenary Speakers* *Joan Bybee*, University of New Mexico *Nick Evans*, Australian National University *Ron Langacker*, University of California, San Diego *Elena Lieven*, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig *Hongyin Tao*, University of California, Los Angeles *Ulrike Zeshan*, University of Central Lancashire *General Plan for the Conference* The conference schedule is designed to strike a balance between a well-attended conference with lively participation and a coherent, well-integrated one. Therefore, we are limiting the number of parallel sessions during the general session to six, shortening the presentation slots from 30 minutes to 20 minutes, ensuring that theme sessions and the general session do not overlap, and increasing the number of poster presentations. We hope ample unstructured time will encourage focused and inclusive communication among participants as we all consider *Cognitive Linguistics at 25. *There will be the usual excursions and conference banquet on the Wednesday afternoon and evening of the conference. We have scheduled two ?open fora? during the late afternoon of the Monday and Tuesday of the conference that will be moderated, but which are also meant to stimulate open discussion. The Monday forum will focus on the last 25 years and the contributions of (or the failed promises of) the cognitive linguistics movement, while the Tuesday forum will focus on the directions in which cognitive linguistics seems to be moving. Please contact the conference organizers if you would like to moderate or participate on one of the forum panels. Given the silver jubilee theme, we also invite participants and other interested parties to submit captioned photographs from past conferences. There will be an *In Memoriam* presentation during the conference honoring cognitive linguists we have lost since 1989. If you wish to contribute a name or personal tribute, please contact the conference organizers. *General Session and Poster Session* The language of the conference is English. Platform presentations will be allocated 20 minutes, which includes questions and discussion. Posters will stay up for a day and be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions over the lunch break. Light refreshments or boxed lunches will be available for purchase. *Theme Sessions* All theme sessions will take place during the weekend preceding the conference or on the Monday and Thursday nights of the conference week. We encourage theme session organizers to submit theme session titles and detailed proposals for either 6-hour sessions (Sunday) or 3-hour sessions (Monday or Thursday nights) directly to the conference organizers, along with the names of authors and titles of the individual papers. Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts directly for review (see below).** *Abstract Submission* General (parallel) session talks will be 20 minutes in length, including discussion. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint, regardless of whether they are intended for the general or a special theme session. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through *Easy Abstracts* (*EasyAbs*). The submission period is 1 August?1 November. Abstract length must not exceed 500 words (excluding title, data, and references). Be mindful that authors will only have 20 minutes to present their work, including questions, so please limit the scope of your presentation accordingly. Abstracts will be subjected to blind review by a minimum of two referees from an international Scientific Committee, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author]). Authors must include the following information on the *EasyAbs*web page: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); (3) postal address, email address, and phone number; (4) five keywords that describe the research; and (5) preference for oral or poster presentation (or either). Authors should use 11-point font and upload .pdf versions of their abstracts to preserve special formatting or fonts. Abstracts must be submitted through *Easy Abstracts* (*EasyAbs*) starting on 1 August 2012. Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scope, relevance, originality, methodology, and strength of conclusions. Please direct all inquiries to * iclc2013 at ualberta.ca*. *Important Dates* Abstract submission becomes available on *EasyAbs*: General and theme session abstract submission deadline: Notice of acceptance: Final accepted abstract submission for conference program: Early registration deadline: Registration deadline (on-site registration will be available at a substantial surcharge): Conference dates: 1 August 2012 *1 November 2012* 1 January 2013 1 March 2013 1 April 2013 1 June 2013 23-28 June 2013 *Conference Organizers* Sally Rice and John Newman, University of Alberta *Contact Information* email: *iclc2013 at ualberta.ca* website: *www.foa.ualberta.ca/iclc2013* -- Dr. Sally Rice Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics 4-60 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780.492.5500 fax: +780.492.0806 sally.rice at ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/~srice From jrosesla at uwo.ca Tue May 1 04:18:50 2012 From: jrosesla at uwo.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Emilio_Ros=E9s_Labrada?=) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 00:18:50 -0400 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Latin_American_Contexts_for_Language_Documentation?= =?windows-1252?Q?_and_Revitalization=94?= Message-ID: ** Please see the new deadline for this special session to be held at the LSA Annual Meeting (Our apologies for cross-postings) *?Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization? * *****EXTENDED DEADLINE***** *Call for Abstracts* Joint LSA-SSILA session entitled ?Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization? for the 2013 Annual Meeting To be held during the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA from 3 to 6 January 2013, this panel?s main goal is to broaden the discussion initiated by the 2013 session entitled ?From Language Documentation to Language Revitalization?, to address the particulars of language documentation and revitalization in Latin America. *Rationale. * While there has been a significant increase in the awareness of the needs, best practices, and goals of language documentation projects in the field of linguistics, the focus has been predominately on North American languages (especially within the US). The greatest genetic diversity in languages is found in Latin America, home to over 100 distinct language families and isolates. Language communities range from sizeable communities of languages with official status such as certain varieties of Guaran?, Quechua and Aymara, to communities of highly endangered languages with limited attention from communities, scholars and governments, as is the case of many Mesoamerican and Amazonian languages. The context in which language documentation might be conducted throughout Latin American and the challenges facing revitalization efforts are unique and cannot be extrapolated from the North American experience. This session therefore intends to give the Latin American context the focus and attention it requires by highlighting the key differences and needs for communities outside the US. It is understood that language documentation and revitalization in Latin America present complex issues and challenges which range across disciplines and sub-disciplines, and which have the potential to alter the methodologies, processes and expected outcomes in documenting and revitalizing languages in this part of the world. This session will address the various factors affecting language documentation and revitalization and will feature six case studies selected through competitive abstract submission to highlight the various ways in which these factors interact, and to provide broad geographic coverage. The following is a list of issues and challenges language documenters and/or activists may face while working in Latin America. The list is just suggestive rather than comprehensive and it is intended to provide you with clues of some of the factors that might be worth exploring. 1. Resources a. Community-internal resources range from limited to non-existent in Latin American societies many of which are dependent on subsistence agriculture, hunter-gathering, or, small scale trade and services. b. State and federal resources, if available, are generally very limited and not efficiently administered. c. Technology-enabled access is not a given in a substantial portion of Latin American communities. d. Access to resources (e.g. grants, archives, telecommunications, academic scholars, training) for community members not residing in major urban areas is generally extremely limited e. Resources might only be available in dominant languages such as Spanish or English making access to conferences, training and other resources restricted to monolingual speakers of any given language. Even bilingual speakers of their language and Spanish or Portuguese are shut out of English-based resources and exchange opportunities such as most US based conferences and training opportunities. 2. Community engagement and motivation a. Cultural constructs and/or social priorities may not allow for community-wide acknowledgement of a language endangerment situation. b. Different degrees of language vitality may lead to different levels of community engagement and motivation. c. Subsistence, cultural and social priorities may interfere with the ability to develop partnerships between community members and external researchers. 3. Linguistic and dialectal diversity a. Linguistic diversity is uniquely complex in Latin America with concentrations of numerous dialectal varieties or even mutually unintelligible and/or genetically unrelated languages in small geographic areas demand very high investments in intellectual and economic resources to ensure impact. 4. Literacy and institutionalized education a. Widespread institutionalized education is relatively recent in many areas in Latin America. b. Widespread literacy cannot be assumed. 5. Expected outcomes and outcome formats a. Factors 1 to 4 above require small scale, customized strategies and national level approaches along the lines of a national or even a regional Breath of Life are not feasible. b. Success in documentation and revitalization is a notion that needs to be customized based on the case specific interaction of Factors 1 to 4. c. Language communities in Latin America are complex and often have different agendas for language revitalization which will often not include formal education or extra-curricular educational programs. 6. Geographic distance a. Location of a given community and access to it with regards to the researcher?s place of residence may compromise the continuity of collaborative documentation and especially, of collaborative revitalization efforts. 7. Ethics, human subjects, and IRB requirements a. Most Latin American societies do not share the concerns that significantly condition a North-America-based researcher?s ability to conduct language documentation or to access funding to support it. b. IRB requirements such as signed consent forms may be misinterpreted by centuries-old experiences of abuse through administrative devices such as written and signed documents, and may be a source of distrust. * * *Guidelines* Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute discussion period (or shorter depending on number of submissions). Based on participants? interest, a poster session might be added to the special session. Please submit your abstract in keeping with LSA 2013 Annual Meeting Abstract Guidelines and Specifications available at http://lsadc.org/info/meet-annual13-abguide.cfm, by e-mail attachment (as Word, RTF or PDF files ? please use PDF if there are any potential problems with fonts) to documentation.revitalization at gmail.com. Please write ?ABSTRACT FOR LSA-SSILA SPECIAL SESSION? in the subject line. Make the abstract as anonymous as possible, and include a title. In the body of your e-mail message, include the following: ? Title of the abstract: ? Word count ? Author(s): ? Affiliation(s): ? Date submitted: The ***extended*** deadline for submission of abstracts is *May 5, 2012*. The anonymous abstracts will be refereed by the panel organizing committee, and authors will be notified of inclusion to the proposed session by May 15. A final decision of LSA-SSILA acceptance of the special session falls outside of the organizers? control and will be communicated to authors by late August/early September. *Panel organizing committee:* Gabriela P?rez B?ez, Smithsonian Institution, perezbaezg at si.edu Chris Rogers, University of Utah, chris.rogers at utah.edu Jorge Emilio Ros?s Labrada, University of Western Ontario, jrosesla at uwo.ca Further information regarding the 87th LSA Annual Meeting can be found at http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm From tpayne at uoregon.edu Wed May 2 16:36:39 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:36:39 -0700 Subject: Books available for review Message-ID: The list of books available for review in Studies in Language has been updated. See: http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/BooksAvailable-04-2012.pdf Some typos have been fixed, a couple of titles have been removed, and the following one has been added: Asudeh, Ash. 2012. The logic of pronominal resumption [Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics]. Oxford University Press. I would also like to call your attention to the following book that will be of particular interest to recipients of this list, and readers of Studies in Language: Malchukov, Andrej & Anna Siewierska (eds.). 2011. Impersonal constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series 124]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Book reviews are a maximum of 4,000 words in length, and are due five months after you receive the book. If you submit a publishable review by the target date, the book will be yours to keep. Studies in Language (SL) provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Abstracts in English Studies; Cultures, Langues, Textes; European Reference Index for the Humanities; Germanistik; Humanities Index; IBR/IBZ; Linguistics Abstracts; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique; LLBA; MLA International Bibliography, Translation Studies Abstracts Online. From pekka.posio at helsinki.fi Sun May 6 14:48:48 2012 From: pekka.posio at helsinki.fi (Pekka Posio) Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 17:48:48 +0300 Subject: CFP: EXTENDED DEADLINE 21.5. Grammar and Genre, Turku, October 24-26 Message-ID: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences October 24th ? 26th, 2012 Turku, Finland The Linguistic Association of Finland (in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of ?bo Akademi University) Variation is one of the key themes in modern grammatical studies, and its investigation highlights the role of contextual factors in the structure of language. These factors can be on many levels and of many different types. The mere genre to which a text belongs potentially dictates a variety of linguistic structures. (For studies about genre see e.g. Bakhtin 1986 to begin with, and more recently Martin & Rose 2008, Biber & Conrad 2009, and Dorgeloh & Wanner 2010.) This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome. We would like to bring together linguists from different fields: linguists studying languages with a small number of speakers, linguists whose data come from languages with millions of speakers and a wide variety of institutionalized genres, theoretically oriented linguists to discuss the implications, as well as linguists with more empirical concerns. We warmly welcome papers related to these questions. Possible topics for talks include, but, as usual, are not restricted to, the following: - How does the grammarian take into account the belonging of the data to a certain genre? If the available data is restricted to a particular genre, how does this affect the results? How does the field worker react to this? - How does the linguist identify the genre in question? - Why do some grammatical constructions appear only in a specific genre? - Is grammar one and only for a given language? How do we account for Coseriu?s distinction sistema - norma social/individual - hablar concreto in empirical, data-driven linguistics? - How can we use the outcomes of stylistics in modern grammatical studies (cf. Bally?s stylistics a century ago), that is not only in the literary sense but to explore variation in grammar? What is the relationship between genre and style? - How does the speaker manipulate grammar to create a genre? - The concept of genre and language learning - Genre in different domains - Genre and language evolution - Genre and language contacts: Does genre play a role in code switching? Invited plenary speakers: Maarten Mous, Leiden University Maria Vilkuna, Institute for the Languages of Finland Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, ?bo Akademi University Anja Wanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientific committee: Heidrun Dorgeloh Kjersti Fl?ttum Jyrki Kalliokoski Ritva Laury Jan Nuyts Mar?a Jos? Serrano Susanna Shore Anna Solin Geoff Thompson Organizing committee: Meri Larjavaara Sonja Dahlgren Arja Hamari Leena Maria Heikkola Lotta Jalava Santra Jantunen Pekka Posio Ilona Rauhala Erika Sandman Maija Sirola Elina Tapio Mikko Virtanen Katja V?sti Milja V??n?nen Abstract submission: Please send your abstract no later than April 30, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding data and references). Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee and also by the organizing committee. Letters of acceptance will be sent by June 5, 2012. Key dates: ? EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstract submission: MAY 21, 2012 ? Notification of acceptance: JUNE 15, 2012 Activities: ? Presentations by the invited speakers ? Presentations by other participants ? Posters ? Workshops References: Bakhtin, M. 1986: Speech genres and other late essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton. Martin, J. R. & D. Rose 2008: Genre relations. Mapping culture. London: Equinox. For more information please visit the webpage of the symposium at https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre From jef.verschueren at ua.ac.be Wed May 9 14:21:45 2012 From: jef.verschueren at ua.ac.be (Verschueren Jef) Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 14:21:45 +0000 Subject: 13th International Pragmatics Conference Message-ID: 13th International Pragmatics Conference New Delhi, India, 8-13 September 2013 All info and call for papers at http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13&n=1438. Note the deadlines: - 15 June 2012 for early submission of panel proposals (allowing for revision if necessary) - 15 September 2012, final deadline for panel proposals - 1 November 2012, deadline for panel contributions, lectures, and posters Please read the instructions in the ?Call for papers? carefully well in advance of the deadlines. The special theme of this edition is Narrative pragmatics: Culture, cognition, context. But as always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication). Plenary speakers will be announced before September 2012. CONFERENCE CHAIR: Rukmini BHAYA NAIR (Indian Institute of Technology) LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are: Ramakant AGNIHOTRI (University of Delhi, Delhi), Ashraf BHAT (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Bijoy BORUAH (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Shubha CHAKRABORTY (Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Probal DASGUPTA (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Peter DE SOUZA (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla), Mushirul HASAN (National Archives of India, New Delhi), Ravinder KAUR (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Dipti KULKARNI (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Girishwar MISRA (University of Delhi, Delhi), Mohan RAMANAN (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad), V. SANIL (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Purnima SINGH (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi), Ashok THORAT (Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes two members of the Manchester (2011) Local Site Committee, the IPrA President and IPrA Secretary General, as well as a number of members of the IPrA Consultation Board: Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough, UK), Josie BERNICOT (Poitiers, France), Barbara BOKUS (Warsaw, Poland), Diana BOXER (Gainesvillle, USA), Winnie CHENG (Hong Kong, China), Anita FETZER (W?rzburg, Germany), Janet HOLMES (Wellington, New Zealand), Sachiko IDE (Tokyo, Japan), Cornelia ILIE (Malm?, Sweden), Dennis KURZON (Haifa, Israel), Sophia MARMARIDOU (Athens, Greece), Rosina MARQUEZ REITER (Surrey,UK), Jacob MEY (Odense, Denmark), Maj-Britt MOSEGAARD HANSEN (Manchester, UK), Lynne MURPHY (University of Sussex), Neal NORRICK (Saarbr?cken, Germany), Jan-Ola ?STMAN (Helsinki, Finland), Marina SBIS? (Trieste, Italy), Jef VERSCHUEREN (University of Antwerp), Tuija VIRTANEN (Abo, Finland), John WILSON (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) Venue: INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, the premier state-of-the-art conference center in central New Delhi. From Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Thu May 10 06:39:59 2012 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:39:59 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 (contrastive linguistics / corpus-based translation studies) - UGent, 2013 Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to announce ICLC 7 ? UCCTS 3, an international event combining in a single venue the latest editions of two conference series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Between them, ICLC 7 and UCCTS 3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries. Date: July 10-13, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), ?Het Pand? Contact: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be INVITED SPEAKERS: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues: - The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics - The aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of 'risk aversion'), the 'dominance' of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables - Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research - The role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the 'socio-cultural link' - Types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc.; the need to account for convergences as well as divergences - The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics) - Contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure - The effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses SUBMISSIONS: Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3. Abstracts must be anonymous throughout, written in English, and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012 Notifications of acceptance: December 15, 2012 From langconf at bu.edu Fri May 11 00:28:46 2012 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:28:46 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 37 - Abstract Submission Deadline Reminder Message-ID: We would like to remind you that the deadline for abstract submissions for the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development is May 15, 2012 at 8pm EST. You may submit your abstract online at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. Thank you. BUCLD Organizers From tpayne at uoregon.edu Fri May 11 22:01:13 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 15:01:13 -0700 Subject: Books available for review in Studies in Language Message-ID: The list of books available for review in Studies in Language has again been updated. Please check the list and let me know if you would be willing to review one of these books. http:// http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/BooksAvailable-05-2012.pdf With your request, please include a brief statement of why you want to review a particular book, a link to a CV or other web page that indicates your qualifications as a reviewer, and a postal address where you would like to receive the book. Format and content guidelines for Book Reviews and Review Articles can be found at http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/SLstylesheet.pdf. Reviews will be due five months after receipt of the book. Please consider participating in the dialog of our discipline by reviewing one or more of these books. Thomas E. Payne (tpayne at uoregon.edu) Review Editor Studies in Language http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=SL From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sat May 12 08:38:51 2012 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 01:38:51 -0700 Subject: Acocella piece in The New Yorker Message-ID: Joan Acocella has a review of Henry Hitchings' "The Language Wars" in this week's New Yorker. It stinks. Real bad. She can't tell the difference between prescriptive and descriptive rules. She accuses Hitchings of making illogical arguments and then makes several of her own (accepting language change is tantamount to going back to the dentistry of Samuel Johnson's time???) She equates vernacular languages with slang. I've rarely seen anything this bad in the NYer. I sent in a response letter. Jo Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Tel. 805.756.2184 Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ************************************************ "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West From john at research.haifa.ac.il Sat May 12 08:48:08 2012 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john) Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 11:48:08 +0300 Subject: Acocella piece in The New Yorker In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Jo, there are frequently very bad things in the New Yorker. It's just that in this case you're a specialist so you know that it's bad. The entire idea of the New Yorker is trying to write literary and accessible pieces on 'high' topics for non-specialists, so this sort of thing is inevitable. John On 12.05.2012 11:38, Johanna Rubba wrote: > Joan Acocella has a review of Henry Hitchings' "The Language Wars" in > this week's New Yorker. It stinks. Real bad. She can't tell the > difference between prescriptive and descriptive rules. She accuses > Hitchings of making illogical arguments and then makes several of her > own (accepting language change is tantamount to going back to the > dentistry of Samuel Johnson's time???) She equates vernacular > languages with slang. I've rarely seen anything this bad in the NYer. > > I sent in a response letter. > > Jo > > Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics > Linguistics Minor Advisor > English Department > Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo > Tel. 805.756.2184 > Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 > E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu > URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba > ************************************************ > "Justice is what love looks like in public." > - Cornel West From jtolstad at gmail.com Sun May 13 13:56:55 2012 From: jtolstad at gmail.com (John Olstad) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 22:56:55 +0900 Subject: Acocella piece in The New Yorker In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I would love to read your letter. Her review made me sad by existing. Much of it was in 'not even wrong' territory. -- John Olstad University of Newcastle (University at Buffalo/National Science Foundation, USA Independent researcher) From nstern at ccny.cuny.edu Sun May 13 21:06:52 2012 From: nstern at ccny.cuny.edu (Nancy Stern) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 17:06:52 -0400 Subject: William Diver / One-Day Conference: May 31 Message-ID: *You are invited to a one-day conference marking the publication of:* * * *Language: Communication and Human Behavior* *The Linguistic Essays of William Diver* Edited by Alan Huffman & Joseph Davis Brill Publishers Faculty House, Columbia University May 31, 2012 *Event is free of charge, but pre-registration is required. Send a message * *to *conf2012 at csling.org 9:45 *Greetings * 9:55 *Introduction of volume editors Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis (Wallis Reid, Rutgers University)* 10:00 - 10:45 *"A Beginning Point, not an End Point" *(Alan Huffman, CUNY Graduate Center) 10:50 - 11:20 *"God is not in the Index" *(Joseph Davis, The City College of New York) 11:20 - 11:50 Discussion 11:50 - 12:20 An informal discussion by editors Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis about the evolution of the Diver volume 12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 2:30 *?Diver's ideas from an anthropological perspective" *(Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia) 2:30 - 3:00 Discussion of Contini-Morava's paper followed by contributions from the audience on the topic of Diver's ideas and their impact. 3:15 - 4:00 *?Diver's ideas from a sociolinguistic perspective? (Ricardo, Otheguy, CUNY Graduate Center)* 4:00 - 4:30 Discussion of Otheguy's paper followed by contributions from the audience 4:30 - 5:00 Personal reminiscences of Diver from his students 5:00 - 6:00 RECEPTION This event is sponsored by Columbia University Seminars and the Columbia School Linguistic Society (www.csling.org). *For more information or to register for the event, write to conf2012 at csling.org* From jpeterson at isfas.uni-kiel.de Tue May 15 12:21:33 2012 From: jpeterson at isfas.uni-kiel.de (John Peterson) Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:21:33 +0200 Subject: Juniorprofessur in Kiel: "Typologie und sprachliche Variation" Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings!) Dear Colleagues, Below you will find the job description (in German) for an opening at our department as of 1 October 2012 in the area "Typology and Linguistic Variation". As the position requires an active knowledge of German, I have left it in the German original. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who you feel is qualified and interested! Best, John ____________________________________________________________________________ Die Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t will mehr qualifizierte Frauen f?r Professuren gewinnen. Am Institut f?r Skandinavistik, Frisistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ISFAS) der Philosophischen Fakult?t der Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel ist zum 1. Oktober 2012 eine Juniorprofessur (W 1) f?r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft im Beamtenverh?ltnis auf Zeit f?r zun?chst drei Jahre zu besetzen. Die/Der zuk?nftige Stelleninhaber/-in soll das Fachgebiet ?Typologie und sprachliche Variation? in Forschung und Lehre vertreten. Die Juniorprofessorin/Der Juniorprofessor soll Lehr- und Betreuungsaufgaben in den einschl?gigen Bachelor- und Masterstudieng?ngen am Institut f?r Skandinavistik, Frisistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ISFAS) ?bernehmen. Erwartet wird auch die Beteiligung an der universit?ren Selbstverwaltung. Die/Der Bewerber/-in sollte vorzugsweise ein abgeschlossenes Studium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft vorweisen. Neben dem Bereich Sprachtypologie sind fundierte Kenntnisse in mehreren der folgenden Bereiche erw?nscht: Soziolinguistik, Sprachkontakt, Mehrsprachigkeit, Feldforschung, Schriftsprache/gesprochene Sprache Im Hinblick auf die interdisziplin?re Zusammenarbeit innerhalb der Philosophischen Fakult?t wird ein Interesse an linguistischen und psychologischen Fragestellungen vorausgesetzt. Eine Zusammenarbeit mit den Forschungszentren ?Arealit?t und Sozialit?t in der Sprache? und ?Stimme und Emotion? ist ausdr?cklich erw?nscht. Erfahrungen mit dem Einwerben von Drittmitteln sind von Vorteil. Auf die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen des ? 64 des Hochschulgesetzes des Landes Schleswig-Holstein wird hingewiesen. N?here Informationen hierzu finden Sie auf der Homepage www.uni-kiel.de unter dem Stichwort ?Berufungsverfahren?. Die Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel ist bestrebt, den Anteil der Wissenschaftlerinnen in Forschung und Lehre zu erh?hen und fordert deshalb entsprechend qualifizierte Frauen nachdr?cklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Frauen werden bei gleichwertiger Eignung, Bef?higung und fachlicher Leistung vorrangig ber?cksichtigt. Die Hochschule setzt sich f?r die Besch?ftigung schwer behinderter Menschen ein. Daher werden schwer behinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt ber?cksichtigt. Bewerbungen mit den ?blichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Schriftenverzeichnis, Verzeichnis der Lehrveranstaltungen, Kopien akademischer Zeugnisse) werden unter Angabe der Privat- und Dienstadresse mit Telefonnummer und E-Mail bis zum 15. Juni 2012 erbeten an das Dekanat der Philosophischen Fakult?t der Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel Olshausenstra?e 40 24098 Kiel -- "Neurolinguists beware! The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person." Fran?ois Grosjean (1989) John Peterson Institut f?r Skandinavistik, Frisistik & Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft - Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft - Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel Olshausenstra?e 40 D-24098 Kiel Germany Tel.: (+49) (0)431-880 2414 Fax: (+49) (0)431-880 7405 Homepage: http://www.SouthAsiaBibliography.de/ From mvera at dfm.ulpgc.es Wed May 30 12:23:54 2012 From: mvera at dfm.ulpgc.es (=?utf-8?b?TWFyw61hIA==?= =?utf-8?b?SmVzw7pz?= Vera Cazorla) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:23:54 +0100 Subject: Revista de Lenguas para Fines Especificos. CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: Revista de Lenguas para Fines Espec?ficos ISSN: 1133-1127 Call for papers LFE, 19 (Autumn, 2013) 20th Anniversary Issue Special Issue: Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of languages for specific purposes/Aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) y didactica de la ense?anza de lenguas para fines espec?ficos Guest editors: Marta Nadales Ruiz, University Complutense Madrid, M? Luisa P?rez-Ca?ado, University of Ja?n and M? Jes?s Vera-Cazorla, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria In this special 20th anniversary issue, the Journal Revista de Lenguas para Fines Espec?ficos (LFE) invites submissions both in Spanish and English of original full-length articles from scholars in the field of English on Content and Language Integrated Learning and on the Teaching of Languages for Specific Purposes. Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words, including references and notes, and should be submitted electronically using the Internet form you will find on the journal webpage. Prospective authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines for submissions in the journal webpage. Contributions submitted to LFE should not be under consideration in any other journal. All submissions will be subject to our peer-review process, and the last decision regarding the publication of contributions falls on the General Editors. For further queries on this special issue, you may contact us via email: lfe(at)ulpgc.es Important dates: Submission deadline: 20 March 2013 Readers' reports due: 15 May 2013 Final draft due: 30 June 2013 Publication: Autumn 2013