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<DIV>*** FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***<BR><BR>The Ninth Annual Meeting of the
International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) will be held at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 17-20 October, 2002.<BR><BR>We invite
abstracts of 20-minute papers and 3 hour colloquia on all<BR>aspects of World
Englishes, including:<BR><BR>Grammatical descriptions of world
Englishes<BR>Discourse Strategies<BR>Genre Analysis<BR>Second/Foreign Language
Acquisition/Pedagogy<BR>Evaluation, testing, and
intelligibility<BR>Code-switching, mixing, and borrowing<BR>Power,
ideology, and identity<BR>Planning and politics<BR>Attrition: Impact/influence
of English on the<BR><X-TAB> </X-TAB>structures of
indigenous languages<BR>English in media and advertising<BR></DIV>
<DIV><B>Abstract Deadline: 1 May, 2002.</B></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Length of abstract of individual papers: no more than 400
words<BR>Colloquium abstracts: 500 words + individual abstracts<BR><BR>Send 7
anonymous copies of your abstract, with your name, affiliation, address
(email/snailmail) on a separate sheet, on/before the deadline to:<BR><BR>Rakesh
M. Bhatt<BR>Department of Linguistics<BR>University of Illinois<BR>4088 FLB, 707
S. Mathews Ave<BR>Urbana, IL 61801<BR>USA<BR></DIV>
<DIV>For more details, visit our web-site:
http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/iawe/</DIV></BODY></HTML>