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          <big><small><b>Call for Papers </b></small><br>
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              <small>W</small></b><small><b>orld-Conference on
                Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties:</b></small><br>
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              <a class="" href="http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org/ndv-conf-graz-2015/">http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org/ndv-conf-graz-2015/</a><br>
            </small></big><big><small>Organized by the International
              Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric
              Language<small>s </small>(WGNDV)</small><b><br>
              <small>Conference</small></b><small><b> date: </b>July
              08–11, 2015</small> <br>
            <small><b>Location:</b></small> <small>University of Graz,
              Austria</small><br>
            <b><small>Submission deadline:</small> </b><small>March 30,
              2015 </small></big><br>
          <b>Notification of acceptance: </b>April 15, 2015<br>
          <b>Publication of papers</b>: A volume of selected papers is
          to be published by Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt. <br>
          All papers for the conference and the publication will be
          peer-reviewed.<br>
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          The conference will also have a section on language technology
          providing scholars </big></tt><tt><big>the possibility to
          present their methods and approaches in corpus linguistics,
          natural language processing and the computational treatment of
          linguistic variation existing between and within national
          varieties.<br>
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          <b>Invitation:</b><br>
          We would like to invite scholars from around the world to
          participate in the 4th conference organized by the Working
          Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages
          (WGNDV). <br>
          The conference is devoted to the description of pluricentric
          languages and in particular of non-dominant national varieties
          of plc. languages. <br>
          These are the varieties that are small by the number of their
          speakers and their symbolic power, and are not the primary
          norm-setting centres of the language. They may often be
          falsely attributed the status of a “dialect”, and have little
          or no codification of their norms. Typically, nd-varieties
          often have to legitimate their norms towards the dominant
          varieties etc. <br>
          The previous conferences of the WGNDV (see <a class="" href="http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org...conferences">www.pluricentriclanguages.org...conferences</a>)
          have shown that non-dominant varieties around the world have
          many linguistic and sociolinguistic features in common. We
          would therefore like to deepen our knowledge and invite
          scholars from around the world to take part in the conference
          and give insight into the situation</big></tt></small><br clear="all"><br>-- <a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=var-l;e7138e92.1501">https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=var-l;e7138e92.1501</a><br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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