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<p class="MsoTitleCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext">YLMP2012, 25–27 May 2012, Poznań, Poland</span></p>

<p class="MsoTitleCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.ylmp.pl">www.ylmp.pl</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoTitleCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl">ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">YLMP2012 Congress: Call for Papers</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">We are
happy to announce that the Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP2012) will
take place</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">on 25–27 May
2012 in Poznań, Poland. The Meeting will be
organised by the School
 of English,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Adam</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">
Mickiewicz University,
Poznań.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialBlack">Submissions</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">The
leitmotif of the YLMP2012 Congress will be <i>Language
in context(s).</i> Proposals of papers related to this main theme, as well
as to other fields of modern linguistics, are invited.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">The
suggested research areas for block sessions are as follows:<br>
<br>
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>psycholinguistics
/ neurolinguistics / clinical linguistics</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>cognitive
linguistics</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>sociolinguistics<br>
>historical linguistics</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>language
and meaning</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>language
and gesture</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>language
and technology</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>language
teaching methodology</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>lexicography</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">>translation
studies<br>
>language and gender<br>
>language and sexuality</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">We are
also planning to organise a formal session. However, final decisions
regarding the session will depend on the number of prospective participants
willing to take part in it.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Each paper
will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. There will also
be poster sessions.<br>
<br>
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">The
language of the congress is English.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Apart from
block sessions, there will also be plenary lectures, delivered by our keynote
speakers.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Keynote speakers</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman"> already confirmed:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Katarzyna
Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & Marcin Kilarski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Alan
Cienki, Vrije Universiteit/VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Michal
Starke, University of Tromsø, Norway<br>
Gerlinde Mautner, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Dennis
Preston, Oklahoma State University, USA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Kevin
Harvey, The University of Nottingham, UK</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">There will
also be <b>thematic workshop sessions</b>.
The areas we want to concentrate on are neurolinguistics/clinical linguistics,
lexicography, corpus linguistics, language teaching methodology and language
and gender/sexuality. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">The
workshop organiser(s) will be local as well as foreign specialists in the above
mentioned fields. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">We are
happy to announce that a <b>panel</b>
devoted to <b>Language and Communication in
Media and Political Contexts</b> will take place during YLMP2012. Please see
the attachment for more details (alternatively consult <a href="http://www.ylmp.pl/programme.html">www.ylmp.pl/programme.html</a>
and then go to the ‘panels’ bookmark). </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Main
submission deadline for all abstracts: 20^th February 2012</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Notification
of acceptance for papers and posters: 20^th March 2012</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Registration
deadline: 16^th April 2012</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ArialBlack">Congress fee:  </span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">€</span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ArialBlack">35</span></b></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ArialBlack">The venue<br>
<br>
</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Collegium
Biologicum, is located in the city of Poznań
(more specifically on a university campus Morasko). The CB building has lecture
halls and computer labs. <br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Please
visit our website for more exhaustive and up-to-date information. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Looking
forward to seeing you in Poznań!</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:ArialBlack">Honorary Organiser:
<br>
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ArialBlack">YLMP 2012 Congress Organising Committee</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Joanna
Pawelczyk<br>
Łukasz Pakuła<br>
Dorota Jaworska</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ArialBlack">Contact details:</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">School</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">
of English, Adam Mickiewicz
 University</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">Collegium Novum</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">al. Niepodległości 4</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">61-874 Poznań, Poland</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">tel: (+48 61) 829 3506</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">fax: (+48 61) 852 3103</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:TimesNewRoman">email: <a href="mailto:ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl">ylmp@ifa.amu.edu.pl</a></span></p>


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