10.607, Calls: Socioling Symposium, Multilingual Corpora
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Subject: 10.607, Calls: Socioling Symposium, Multilingual Corpora
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject: Sociolinguistics Symposium
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:20:13 +0200
From: Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder at uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Multilingual Corpora/Computational Linguistics
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject: Sociolinguistics Symposium
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL (UWE, Bristol)
CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES (CES), FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND EUROPEAN STUDIES (LES) & SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (ESS)
Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000
The Interface between Linguistics and Social Theory
27-29 April 2000
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000 is the thirteenth meeting of the
Sociolinguistics Symposium which meets once every two years. This
conference will focus primarily on the Interface between Linguistics
and Social Theory, and it is hoped the meeting will contribute to
further cooperation between the two disciplines. The conference
welcomes papers from a range of different subject areas such as:
language variation and change, language and gender, language and the
media, discourse analysis, languages in contact, creole linguistics,
intercultural communication, language and migration, social
stratification of language, language development and other related
topics.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Jack Chambers (Toronto): Leaders and laggers in the diffusion of
changes
Professor David Corson (Toronto) Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social
Philosophy for Sociolinguistics
Professor Pieter Muysken (Leiden): Radical Modularity and the Possibility of
SocioLinguistics
Professor Shana Poplack (Ottawa): The Social Context of Linguistic Variation
(working title)
Professor Ruth Wodak (Vienna): Does Sociolinguistics need Social Theory?
New Perspectives in Critical Discourse Analysis
PROVISIONAL TITLES OF COLLOQUIA
1. Investigating Linguistic Variation and Change from a Dialect Contact
Perspective
Convenor: Lesley Milroy (University of Michigan),E-mail: amilroy at umich.edu
2. Sociolinguistics and Integrationism
Convenor: Roy Harris, E-mail: roy.harris at modern-languages.oxford.ac.uk
3. Network Analyses in a Multilingual Environment
Convenors: Piet Van de Craen & Ann-Sophie D\146hondt (VUB,Brussels)
E-mail: piet.van.de.craen at vub.ac.be
4. Language, Nationalism and Minority Rights
Convenor: Stephen May (University of Bristol), E-mail: steve.may at bris.ac.uk
5. Intercultural Communication in Organisations. Shaping the Interface
between Theory and Practice, Convenors: Helmut Daller (UWE, Bristol)
and Jan ten Thije (Chemnitz),E-mail: helmut.daller at uwe.ac.uk,
jan.tenthije at phil.tu-chemnitz.de
6. Language, Culture and Ethnicity in the 21st Century Convenors:
Joanna Helck\233(UWE, Bristol) & Tope Omoniyi (Thames Valley University),
E-mail: joanna.helcke at uwe.ac.uk, sky_omoniyi at hotmail.com
7. Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border Convenor:
Jeanine Treffers-Daller (UWE, Bristol) & Roland Willemyns (VUB,
Brussels),E-mail: jeanine.treffers-daller at uwe.ac.uk,
roland.willemyns at ping.be
Suggestions for other colloquia are welcome (see deadline for
applications on the back of this page and our website for further
details).
COMMITTEE
Professor Michael Scriven,UWE, Bristol; Professor Alison Assiter,UWE,
Bristol; Mr Felix Bihlmeier,UWE, Bristol; Dr Susan Price, UWE,
Bristol; Dr Carmen Arnaiz, UWE, Bristol; Mrs Kate Beeching, UWE,
Bristol; Mr John Bird, UWE, Bristol; Professor Jim Coleman,University
of Portsmouth; Professor Nikolas Coupland, University of Cardiff; Dr
Aidan Coveney,University of Exeter; Dr Helmut Daller, UWE, Bristol;
Professor Roy Harris,University of Oxford; Dr Stephen May,University
of Bristol; Dr Tom Osborne,University of Bristol; Dr Mark Sebba,
University of Lancaster; Dr Sali Tagliamonte,University of York; Dr
Jeanine Treffers-Daller,UWE, Bristol; Mr Jem Thomas,UWE, Bristol; Dr
Glyn Williams,University of Wales at Bangor.
DEADLINES
\183 The deadline for proposals of colloquia is: 1 June 1999.
\183 The deadline for submission of abstracts is: 1 September 1999.
Abstracts are welcomed for oral presentation (20 mins + 10 mins
discussion) or poster presentation. Please send 4 hard copies, one of
which contains your name and address, as well as an electronic version
(Rich Text Format) of the abstract to the address given below.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
More information about the conference programme, the venue and the general
organisation of the event can be found either on our website:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/research/sociling2000.html
or at our addresses/numbers below:
Jessa Karki/Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Centre for European Studies (CES)
Faculty of Languages and European Studies
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane
Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK
E-mail: ss2000 at uwe.ac.uk
Tel: ++ 44 117 976 3842, ext 2724, Fax: ++44 117 976 2626
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:20:13 +0200
From: Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder at uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Multilingual Corpora/Computational Linguistics
Reminder: CfP GLDV '99
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"Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis"
The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics
and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999.
Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis".
The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics
of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the
Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT
related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language
Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome!
Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to
titus at em.uni-frankfurt.de
* Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum);
* Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII.
The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on
May 28, 1999.
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For details go to:
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm
P.O.
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