18.3160, Calls: General Ling/Poland; General Ling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-3160. Sun Oct 28 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.3160, Calls: General Ling/Poland; General Ling/USA

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Date: 27-Oct-2007
From: Alina Kwiatkowska < akwiat at uni.lodz.pl >
Subject: Humor. Theories, Applications, Practices 

2)
Date: 27-Oct-2007
From: Irmengard Rauch < irauch at berkeley.edu >
Subject: Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable

 

	
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:41:48
From: Alina Kwiatkowska [akwiat at uni.lodz.pl]
Subject: Humor. Theories, Applications, Practices
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Full Title: Humor. Theories, Applications, Practices 
Short Title: Humor TAP 

Date: 29-May-2008 - 31-May-2008
Location: Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland 
Contact Person: Alina Kwiatkowska
Meeting Email: akwiat at uni.lodz.pl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jan-2008 

Meeting Description

An interdisciplinary conference on humor 

We welcome linguists, literary scholars, and psychologists, whose academic
interests incorporate humor in the broadest sense of the term. The following are
some suggestions for the possible research topics:

Theories of humor, humor and creativity, allusion, ambiguity, paradox, parody,
''nonsense'', satire, political humor (including political correctness), humor
in advertising, humorous cartoons, comic strips, Internet humor, humor and
stereotypes, humor and cultural differences, gender and humor, the psychology of
humor, humor and translation, wordplay, humorous fiction, humorous poetry,
slang, wit, joke patterns, humorous riddles, children's humor, classroom humor.
...etc.



	
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:41:54
From: Irmengard Rauch [irauch at berkeley.edu]
Subject: Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable
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Full Title: Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable 

Date: 05-Apr-2008 - 06-Apr-2008
Location: Berkeley, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Irmengard Rauch
Meeting Email: irauch at berkeley.edu

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2008 

Meeting Description

Saturday, April 5-6, 2008
University of California, Berkeley 

Papers are invited with divers approaches, synchrony and/ or diachrony,
historical and/ or contempoary language dealing with data from Germanic
languages and/ or crosslinguistically from Indo-European and/ or
non-Indo-European languages. Submit abstract (one-page or less, plus a CD;
or e-mail or fax) by February 1, 2008 to the conference organizer:
Irmengard Rauch; Department of German; University of California, Berkeley;
Berkeley, CA 94720-3243; e-mail: irauch at berkeley.edu; phone/ fax 707-746-7480.
 
Lodging: Reservations can be made at: 
The Faculty Club (510-642-1993/510-540-5678); 
or at the Durant Hotel (510-845-8981), 
2600 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704.

The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable is supported by the University
of California, Berkeley Institute for European Studies and the Max Kade
Foundation, Inc.


 




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