27.4941, Calls: Portuguese, Spanish, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 27.4941, Calls: Portuguese, Spanish, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/USA

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Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 10:27:42
From: Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley [sabernar at spanport.umass.edu]
Subject: 1st Annual University of Massachusetts Amherst Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Student Conference

 
Full Title: 1st Annual University of Massachusetts Amherst Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Student Conference 
Short Title: UMassSPGC 

Date: 08-Apr-2017 - 09-Apr-2017
Location: Amherst, MA, USA 
Contact Person: Christina Beaubien
Meeting Email: umass.spgc at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Modern technology and global migration have resulted in increased
language/dialect contact and multilingualism, creating new linguistic
phenomena and contexts within which to study them. Language and the Current
Global Society is the theme for the first UMassSPGC: a conference for graduate
students of linguistics and related fields.


Call for Papers:

Abstract submissions are welcome for presentations in Hispanic & Lusophone
linguistics on topics related to (but not limited to) the following subfields:

- Language variation and change 
- Language/Dialect contact 
- Second language acquisition 
- Bilingualism 
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Pragmatics 
- Discourse analysis 
- Historical linguistics 

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words (Times New Roman font, size 12,
1-inch margins). An additional page may be used for images and references.
Submissions and presentations can be written in English, Spanish, or
Portuguese. To facilitate the review process, please email your abstract in
the form of an attached document (.pdf). In the body of the email, please
include: presentation title, author(s), and affiliation. Abstracts should only
contain presentation title and exclude author name(s).  

Please submit an anonymous abstract by email from Dec. 1, 2016 until Jan. 31,
2016. The estimated date of notification of acceptance or rejection will be
Feb. 15, 2017. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentation and 10
minutes for questions. 

For questions, concerns, and inquiries regarding abstract submissions and/or
the conference in general, please contact the program committee at
umass.spgc at gmail.com.




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