CfP: The Third International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD3)

[Hongyin Tao]

*The Third International Symposium on
Chinese Language and Discourse* (ISCLD3)*

**第三届汉语语言与话语国际研讨会** ***

*第三屆漢語語言與話語國際研討會*

11-13 June, 2014

London, UK


*CALL FOR PAPERS*

The International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse is a biennial
symposium that advances the exchange of scholarship in discourse functional
studies of the Chinese language, emphasizing an empirical orientation and
encompassing such fields as discourse and grammar, variation and change,
language contact, language and society, language and culture, and language
and social interaction.

The third symposium will be held at Birkbeck College, University of London,
UK. The working language of the symposium will be English.

Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (25 minutes, plus 5 minutes
for discussion) to showcase latest advancements in broadly-defined
discourse functional studies of the Chinese language. Topics may include,
but are not limited to, the following:

   - Corpora and Chinese language studies
   - Language variation, change and development
   - Language acquisition
   - Language contact and diversity
   - Language and interaction
   - Language and society
   - Language and culture
   - Language and cognition


An abstract of no more than 500 but no fewer than 300 words in English
should be submitted to: roundtable at bbk.ac.uk. Please also include (i)
author(s)’ name(s); (ii) affiliation; and (iii) email address.

*Deadline for submission of abstracts:* *Friday 10th January, 2014*
*Notification of acceptance:* February, 2014

Conference Dates



11-13 June, 2014

*Keynote speakers:*

*Rint Sybesma *(University of Leiden, The Netherlands)

*Richard Xiao *(University of Lancaster, UK)

*Boping Yuan *(University of Cambridge, UK)

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*There will be a Round Table on the teaching and learning of Chinese in the
era of Globalization on Wednesday 11th June, 2014.*

*Invited Speakers for the Round Table *(further contributors will be
confirmed shortly):

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*Katherine Carruthers* (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)

*Don Starr* (University of Durham, UK)

*Chun Zhang* (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

*Zhu Hua* (Convenor, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)



Journal:* Chinese Language and Discourse* (ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN
1877-8798), Benjamins (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/cld/main).
Executive Editor Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei

Book series: *Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse* (ISSN 1879-5382),
Benjamins (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scld/main). Executive Editor
Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei

*Birkbeck College* is located at the heart of Bloomsbury, a historical and
fashionable area in the centre of London where numerous cultural,
educational and health institutions are located. The British Museum is next
to Birkbeck buildings, and Oxford Street is within walking distance. It is
accessible by several underground lines, with a direct line to Heathrow
airport. There are abundant hotels and restaurants in the neighbourhood.

Participants are asked to book their own accommodation, as the university
does not have accommodation during term time. There will be a registration
fee to cover lunches, tea/coffee, and the delegate’s pack.