27.4236, Calls: Chinese, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lexicography, Socioling, Typology/Hong Kong

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:32:12
From: Sze-Wing Tang [msr-chinese at cuhk.edu.hk]
Subject: International Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road

 
Full Title: International Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road 

Date: 07-Apr-2017 - 08-Apr-2017
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact Person: Sze-Wing Tang
Meeting Email: msr-chinese at cuhk.edu.hk
Web Site: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/msr-chinese/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Chinese 

Call Deadline: 09-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that the ''International Symposium on Chinese in
the Maritime Silk Road'' will be held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
on April 7-8, 2017 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Institute of
Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Symposium is jointly
organized by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of
Chinese Studies and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and
co-organized by the Global China Research Programme and The Chinese University
of Hong Kong Library.


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for submission on studies of phonology, lexicology,
grammar, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and language and culture of
Chinese spoken in the countries and areas along the 21st Century Maritime Silk
Road, with some focus on the linguistic properties of overseas Chinese and
Chinese dialects.   

Tentatively talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
All submitted abstracts can be written in English or in Chinese and limited to
one single-spaced A4 page. The deadline for submission is on January 9, 2017
and the notice of acceptance will be released by February 13, 2017. Abstracts
should be submitted using the EasyChair page for the conference
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msrchinese2017). Please visit the
website of the Symposium for the details of submission.

A selected number of papers will be accepted for publication in a special
volume of Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (ISSN 1726-9245) based on
their merit.

For inquiries, please contact us by email at msr-chinese at cuhk.edu.hk.




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