17.508, Calls: Arabic/Computational Ling/Morocco;General Ling/UK

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Subject: 17.508, Calls: Arabic/Computational Ling/Morocco;General Ling/UK

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1)
Date: 14-Feb-2006
From: Abderrezzak Tourabi < atourabi at hotmail.com >
Subject: Arabic Language Processing 

2)
Date: 14-Feb-2006
From: Emmanuel Defay < emmanuel.defay at univ-lyon2.fr >
Subject: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:12:56
From: Abderrezzak Tourabi < atourabi at hotmail.com >
Subject: Arabic Language Processing 

Full Title: Arabic Language Processing 
Short Title: JETALA 

Date: 05-Jun-2006 - 06-Jun-2006
Location: IERA, Rabat, Morocco 
Contact Person: Abderrezzak Tourabi
Meeting Email: atourabi at hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.iera.ac.ma 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2006 

Meeting Description: 

The Institute for Study and Research on Arabization (IERA), Mohammed V
University, Rabat-Souissi, is organizing, in June 5st - 6nd, 2006, an
international Colloquium on Arabic Language Processing. 

The aim of this Colloquium is to gather studies, achievements and experiences
from scholars working on Arabic language processing, in order to offer insight
into the progresses within this field, to explore the perspectives, and to tie
connections with laboratories and Institutions working on Arabic Language
Processing.

The topics addressed by the days are not exhaustively listed as follows:
- Lexicon: data bases including linguistic resources (phonological,
morphological, syntactic, and semantics)
- Automatic generation and parsing of Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics
- Applications of Arabic Language Processing, namely automatic tagging of Arabic
texts, texts briefing, texts generation (words and sentences), synthesis from
texts, Automatic translation, information searching and retrieving, etc.

Submission
Abstracts should not exceed two-pages in length, (Times New Roman), 12 point. A
third page for references may be included. Two electronic copies (word format)
must be provided, including one anonymous version. On a separate sheet, please
include the following information: author's (i) name; (ii) affiliation; (iii)
mailing address and e-mail address.  Please send abstracts to:
jetala at iera.ac.ma
yousfi240ma at yahoo.fr

Important dates
Submission of papers: April 15th, 2006
Acceptance Notification: April 30th, 2006
Submission of the final version of paper: May 15th, 2006
Conference: June 5st and 6nd, 2006

Texts accepted will be published in the proceeding of these days, and can
eventually be proposed to be published in the Linguistic Research Journal
published by the IERA.

Conference Languages
Papers will be presented in Arabic, French or English

Organising Committee
Abderrezzak Tourabi           : atourabi at hotmail.com
Abdellah Yousfi                    : yousfi240ma at yahoo.fr
Abdelhamid El Jihad           : eljihad at ifrance.com
Abdelfattah Hamdani           : hamdani at iera.ac.ma
Khalid Lachheb                    : khlachheb at yahoo.fr
Ahmed Berrissoul                : berrissoul at maktoob.com
Samia Ezzahid                     : sezzahid at yahoo.fr

For any information related to the organization, please contact: 
Abderrezzak Tourabi or Abdelfattah Hamdani
e-mail: atourabi at hotmail.co / hamdani at ierc.ac.ma or ab_hamdani at hotmail.com
Institute for the Study and Research on Arabization
B.P. 6216, Rabat-Institutes, Agdal 
Morocco
Fax: (212) 37 77 20 65

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:13:02
From: Emmanuel Defay < emmanuel.defay at univ-lyon2.fr >
Subject: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions 

Full Title: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and
Cultural Perceptions 

Date: 03-Nov-2006 - 04-Nov-2006
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Marie-Noelle Guillot
Meeting Email: m.guillot at uea.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2006 

Meeting Description:

The purpose of this interdisciplinary event is to bring together, under the
umbrella of cross-cultural pragmatics, researchers from domains which are
particularly sensitive to cross-cultural issues, to promote the
cross-fertilisation of ideas and theoretical approaches, and explore, beyond
stereotypes, key concerns associated with verbal communication across language,
culture and acquisitional divides. 

AFLS Symposium at the University of East Anglia, Norwich - 3-4 November 2006   
CALL FOR PAPERS

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions

Keynote speakers:
Helen Spencer-Oatey  (cross/intercultural studies)
Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (discourse in interaction) 
Declan McCavana (non-standard language varieties)

Domains of specific interest will be interlanguage pragmatics, mediation (with
reference to real-life or fictional contexts, i.e. translation/interpreting, but
also dubbing / subtitling / translation / adaptation of fictional interactions,
for example)  and non-standard varieties of language. These are spheres of
enquiry in which cross-cultural issues and their implications in various
respects (e.g. pragmatic development for interlanguage) surface with peculiar
acuteness, and which give us privileged access to data for refining their study.
Questions the workshop will aim to explore include: the interface between the
linguistic and the cultural, between speech frames and cultural perceptions,
misapprehensions of pragmatic values across languages and their implications,
issues of membership knowledge generally, issues of transfer, intercultural styles. 

The workshop will focus principally, but not exclusively, on the  French/English
pair,  a combination of languages which has received comparatively limited
attention in cross-cultural pragmatics (but see Béal, Kerbrat-Orecchioni,
Traverso), and even less in interlanguage pragmatics. It will, by virtue of its
themes and the inbuilt interdisciplinarity of cross-cultural pragmatics
generally, be informed by different theoretical paradigms (e.g. conversation and
interactional discourse analysis, intercultural communication, politeness theory
and, for interlanguage, second language acquisition and psycholinguistics).
Proposals, for individual papers (20 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions) or
proposer-led round-table sessions on a particular theme (1h30), will be expected
clearly to identify their theoretical frame(s) of reference.

The general framework for the workshop will be provided by plenary papers
delivered by distinguished scholars representing complementary perspectives:
cross / intercultural studies (Helen Spencer-Oatey, Cambridge University),
discourse in interaction (Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Université Lyon 2), 
interpreting and non-standard language varieties (Declan McCavana, Ecole
Polytechnique, Paris).

Practical information
Abstract deadline     	31 May 2006
Language	 	English or French
Proposal	         	                300-word anonymous abstract sent as an 
                                                attachment (Worddoc) to an email
message
                                                containing the author's name and
affiliation
Submission	          	To m.guillot at uea.ac.uk  
Organisers		Dr Marie-Noëlle Guillot and Dr Roger Baines,
                                                School of Language, Linguistics
and Translation
                                                Studies, University of East
Anglia, Norwich NR4
                                                7TJ, UK

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