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<DIV class=Section1><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Call for papers: First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">University at </SPAN></FONT><st1:City><st1:place>Albany</st1:place></st1:City> (State University of New York) is pleased to<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">announce</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> its First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics March 14th &<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">15th, 2002.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The focus will be on:<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">a. Dialectical variation of Spanish: both at the geographic and the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">social</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> level.<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">b.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Spanish</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> in contact including:<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Spanish</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> in contact with other languages:<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1. <SPAN class=GramE>In</SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><st1:country-region><st1:place>Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>: Contact with Basque, Catalan, Galician, <SPAN class=SpellE>Valencian</SPAN>, etc.<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2. In </SPAN></FONT><st1:place>South America</st1:place>: contact with indigenous language including Mayan<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>languages</SPAN>, </SPAN></FONT><st1:country-region><st1:place>Belize</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Quechua, <SPAN class=SpellE>Aymara</SPAN>, Tupi-Guarani, etc.<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3. Elsewhere: Contact with Portuguese, Arabic, Philippine languages<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Spanish</SPAN></FONT></SPAN>/English bilingualism in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region>: both in the case of heritage<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>speakers</SPAN> and emigrants.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We welcome original papers (30 minutes in length) on any situation of<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">dialectal</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> variation, language contact, and bilingualism that involves<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Spanish.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Abstracts should be submitted via email to <SPAN class=SpellE>Lotfi</SPAN> <SPAN class=SpellE>Sayahi</SPAN><o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="mailto:sayahi@albany.edu"><SPAN class=GramE>sayahi@albany.edu</SPAN></A><SPAN class=GramE> no later than </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><st1:date style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\MICROSOFT SHARED\SMART TAG\mstag.bmp); BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" Year="2002" Day="15" Month="1"><SPAN class=GramE>January 15, 2002</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN class=GramE>.</SPAN> Please include:<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1. <SPAN class=GramE>title</SPAN> of the paper<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2. author(s)'s</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> name<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">3. author(s)'s</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> affiliation<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">4. one-page abstract<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">5. <SPAN class=GramE>a</SPAN> 100-word summary.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Send enquiries to: <A href="mailto:Sayahi@albany.edu">Sayahi@albany.edu</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE>
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