23.1858, Confs: French, Socioling, Historical Ling/UK

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Subject: 23.1858, Confs: French, Socioling, Historical Ling/UK

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:57:07
From: Richard Waltereit [richard.waltereit at ncl.ac.uk]
Subject: Association for French Language Studies Conference 2012

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Association for French Language Studies Conference 2012 
Short Title: AFLS 2012 

Date: 01-Jun-2012 - 03-Jun-2012 
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom 
Contact: Richard Waltereit 
Contact Email: afls2012 at newcastle.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/afls2012 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Meeting Description: 

The annual conference of the Association of French Language Studies (AFLS) will be held at Newcastle University from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd June 2012. The conference acts as a forum to encourage and promote language teaching activities and research in French linguistics in higher education. The theme of this year's conference is 'Le français à travers le temps: acquisition, changement et variation'. 

Plenary speakers:

Jim Coleman (Open U): The past, present and future of French in British Universities
Marie-Hélène Côté (U Ottawa): Vers une analyse des contextes de liaison
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, U of London): L'acquisition de la compétence sociolinguistique et sociopragmatique
Ruth King (York U): The present explains the past: variation in (Acadian) French
Sophie Prévost (CNRS/ENS Paris): Variation en français médiéval: perspectives synchronique et diachronique

The full programme is available at:

http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/afls2012/AFLS_2012___Newcastle_University/Programme.html

Early registration rate available until 22 April 2012; from 23 April, full rates will apply.

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