20.154, Calls: Sociolinguistics/USA; Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-20-154. Sun Jan 18 2009. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 20.154, Calls: Sociolinguistics/USA; Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom

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1)
Date: 16-Jan-2009
From: Susan Burt < smburt at ilstu.edu >
Subject: American Dialect Society at MMLA 

2)
Date: 16-Jan-2009
From: Lizzy Tanguay < tanguaye at aston.ac.uk >
Subject: Aston Corpus Symposium and Postgraduate Conference

 

	
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:56:42
From: Susan Burt [smburt at ilstu.edu]
Subject: American Dialect Society at MMLA

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Full Title: American Dialect Society at MMLA 
Short Title: ADS at MMLA 

Date: 12-Nov-2009 - 15-Nov-2009
Location: St. Louis, MO, USA 
Contact Person: Susan Burt
Meeting Email: smburt at ilstu.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2009 

Meeting Description:

The American Dialect Society at the Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes
papers on varieties of English and other languages spoken in the United States. 

Call for Papers

Presentations may be based in dialectology or in other areas of language
variation and change, such as sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics,
folk linguistics, language and gender, language attitudes and ideologies,
linguistics in the schools. A focus on immigrant languages is encouraged to fit
with the MMLA's 2009 theme of "Migration," but this is not required.
Send abstracts no longer than 250 words (excluding title and references) as Word
attachments by March 15, 2009 to smburt at ilstu.edu. Include contact information,
affiliation and title of abstract in the body of your email.  

Membership to MMLA is required; membership to ADS is recommended.

Meetings will take place at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis.



	
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:56:47
From: Lizzy Tanguay [tanguaye at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Aston Corpus Symposium and Postgraduate Conference

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Full Title: Aston Corpus Symposium and Postgraduate Conference 

Date: 21-May-2009 - 22-May-2009
Location: Birmingham UK, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Lizzy Tanguay
Meeting Email: tanguaye at aston.ac.uk
Web Site: http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/symposium.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2009 

Meeting Description:

After two very successful events, Aston Corpus Symposium returns for its third
year in 2009, bringing together experts in various corpus-related fields. As in
2008, the Symposium will be preceded by the Aston Corpus Conference for
Postgraduate Researchers, which enables postgraduates to present their
corpus-related research in a friendly environment. 

Second Call for Papers

Sponsored by ISLS
Institute for the Study of Language and Society,
School of Languages and Social Sciences,
Aston University, Birmingham, UK

- Aston Corpus Conference for Postgraduate Researchers:
Thursday 21 May 2009
- Aston Corpus Symposium: Friday 22 May 2009

Aston Corpus Conference for Postgraduate Researchers: Thursday 21 May 2009

Deadline: 1st Feb

The objective of the Corpus Conference for Postgraduate Researchers, organized
by the ACORN project team of the School of Languages and Social Sciences at
Aston University, is to enable postgraduates to present their corpus-related
research in a friendly environment. As with last year, we are combining the
conference with the Aston Corpus Symposium, which will take place on the
following day. Postgraduates will thus have the opportunity to hear experts talk
about their past and current projects.

Abstracts written in English of max 300 words (with bibliographical references)
for a 20 minute paper should be sent by 1 February 2009 to tanguaye at aston.ac.uk.
The preferred file formats are .doc and .pdf. 
Author's name, affiliation, and contact details should be provided in a separate
attachment.

Presenters will also be invited to submit a 3,000-word conference paper to be
published in the online conference proceedings.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 1 March 2009.

Presentations can focus on any corpus-related topic.

http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/postgraduate_conference.html

Elizabeth Tanguay
PhD student in Corpus Linguistics
School of Languages and Social Sciences (LSS)
Aston University
Birmingham, B4 7ET


 





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