18.3626, Calls: Cognitive Science,Discourse Analysis/Denmark; General Ling/UK

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Subject: 18.3626, Calls: Cognitive Science,Discourse Analysis/Denmark; General Ling/UK

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Date: 02-Dec-2007
From: Izaskun Elorza < iea at usal.es >
Subject: Bridging the gap in cultural studies 

2)
Date: 01-Dec-2007
From: Elena (Lena) Papadopoulou < epapadb at essex.ac.uk >
Subject: Language at the University of Essex

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:47:20
From: Izaskun Elorza [iea at usal.es]
Subject: Bridging the gap in cultural studies
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Full Title: Bridging the gap in cultural studies 

Date: 14-Jul-2008 - 16-Jul-2008
Location: Odense, Denmark 
Contact Person: Izaskun Elorza
Meeting Email: iea at usal.es

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse
Analysis; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2007 

Meeting Description:
The main aim of this theme session is to bring together two different approaches
to cultural studies, the study of interpersonal relations in meaning
construction as well as the negotiation of social identity, as considered and
described by discourse analysts, sociolinguists, ethnolinguists and
systemic-functional linguists, and the features associated to (inter-) cultural
communicative competence. Literature in those domains tends to deal with either
one or another perspective but lacks an overall treatment which is necessary in
order to gain deeper insight into the social constraints of meaning construction
and social identity negotiation, including the social values associated to the
communicative competence in a foreign language.
The attention that the construction of a European entity and identity has
received in the last decades involves a consideration of the multiculturality
and multiligualism of the European citizenship. In the domain of FL teaching and
learning, one of the consequences of this awareness of the European
multicultural mosaic is an increase in the interest in the (inter-) cultural
aspects involved in communication, and more precisely, in what is considered a
culturally competent speaker of a foreign language and how the cultural context
exerts an influence on the learning. 

''Bridging the gap in cultural studies: From meaning construction to (inter-)
cultural communicative competence''
Theme Session of the Conference Language, Culture and Mind 3
Odense, 14-16th July, 2008

Domains:
Contributions are welcome which deal with meaning construction and/ or
communicative competence in relation to language users, language use, language
as a social system and/ or practical applications from one or more of the
following perspectives: pragmatics; cognitive linguistics, systemic functional
linguistics; text linguistics, ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus
linguistics; discourse analysis and applied linguistics (FL teaching and
translation in particular).

Submission guidelines:
Abstracts of max. 500 words (including references) are to be submitted to both
Theme Session Organizers (iea at usal.es and ovidi at usal.es) before January 1st
2008. Final notice of acceptance will be given by mid March 2008.
Submissions will be evaluated according to their
- Relevance
- Quality
- Coherence
- Originality
- Organization

Conference description:
This is the third conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind (LCM) This
time the conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities
at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense 14th - 16th July 2008.
The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an
integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and
empirical studies of language and communication and the special theme of this
conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction.

We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology,
linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction,
discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to impart their
insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be
given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction
between social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological
approaches in language and communication sciences.

Time frame for submissions & notification of Theme Session Contributions:
First and only call for Theme Session Contributions: November 30, 2007 
Deadline for Theme Session Submissions: December 31, 2007 
Notification of acceptance: Mid March, 2008 

More information about LCM3 is available at
http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/

Please submit your proposal attached in a Word file by e-mail by December 31st,
2007.

Izaskun Elorza and Ovidi Carbonell
Theme Session Organizers

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:47:25
From: Elena (Lena) Papadopoulou [epapadb at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: Language at the University of Essex
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Full Title: Language at the University of Essex 
Short Title: LangUE2008 

Date: 15-Mar-2008 - 15-Mar-2008
Location: Colchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Kakia Chatsiou
Meeting Email: achats at essex.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/pgr/langue/LangUE2008/home.shtm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2008 

Meeting Description

LangUE 2008 - Postgraduate Conference 

The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex invites
you to its third postgraduate day-conference held on 15th March 2008. 

LangUE 2008 
University of Essex 

The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex invites
you to its third postgraduate day-conference which will be held at the
University of Essex on Saturday, 15th March 2008. 

The conference aims at bringing together postgraduate students to present and
discuss current research, results and problems from any field of linguistics. 

Call for Papers and Posters 

Abstracts of no more than 250 words are invited on any topic in linguistics. The
deadline for receipt of abstracts is the 15th of January 2008. Abstracts should
not include the name and affiliation of the author(s). For further details,
refer to the LangUE 2008 submission form  
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/pgr/langue/LangUE2008/LangUE-subform.doc 

All abstracts should be in accordance with this submission form. Abstracts
should be sent to langue at essex.ac.uk. Note that no late submissions will be
accepted. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. 

Please specify whether you intend to present a paper or a poster. 

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15th February 2008. 

Conference format 

The conference will include presentation of papers, posters and a plenary panel. 

Invited Plenary Speakers

We are pleased to announce 

Prof. Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge, UK) and 
Prof. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex, UK) 

as this year's invited plenary speakers. 

Further Information 

Registration and Accommodation details will be available soon. Please see
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/pgr/LangUE/LangUE2008/Home.shtm 
for further details and updates. Do not hesitate to contact us if you need
further information.

Best regards, 

The LangUE Committee 

Kholoud Al-Thubaiti 
Claire Batterham 
Aikaterini Chatsiou 
Sirirat Na Ranong 
Elena (Lena) Papadopoulou 
Philip Tipton 
Keisuke Yoshimoto

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