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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">HiSoN Conference, 22</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">-</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">24 June 2011, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">2nd Call for papers<B></B></FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The research project “Brieven als Buit/ Letters as Loot” will be organising the next Historical Sociolinguistic Network Conference at the University of Leiden in June 2011. This time, the theme of the conference will be Touching the Past. (Ego)documents in a Linguistic and Historical Perspective.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Plenary speakers will be Peter Burke (Cambridge), Anthony Lodge (St Andrews) and Laura Wright (Cambridge). </FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Scholars interested in any aspect relating to this theme are invited to submit abstracts for papers. We are particularly interested in papers from any language area on topics on the language of ego documents in relation to literacy, corpus linguistics, text type analysis, linguistic norms, pragmatics and social networks. We invite suggestions for workshops or panel sessions to be held in the context of the conference.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The deadline for the submission of abstracts is</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">1 December 2010</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Notification of acceptance will occur by mid-February 2011. Slots for papers will be 30 minutes, including time for questions; the language of the papers will be English. </FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Abstract format</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">: maximum length 350 words or one page A4, using Times New Roman font no smaller than 12 point, including references. Please send one document (name the WORD file: yournameHiSoN2011) with two versions of the abstract in WORD to </FONT><A HREF="mailto:hum-hison2011@hum.leidenuniv.nl"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">hum-hison2011@hum.leidenuniv.nl</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, one version with your name and affiliation appearing below the title, and one version without name and affiliation.</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="nl"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The local organisers are Marijke van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten, Jos Schaeken and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">For further information, please contact Marijke van der Wal or Gijsbert Rutten at </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:hum-hison2011@hum.leidenuniv.nl"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">hum-hison2011@hum.leidenuniv.nl</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">More information</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">: </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://hum.leiden.edu/lucl/hison-conference/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://hum.leiden.edu/lucl/hison-conference/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
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