29.4836, Calls: Arabic, Standard; Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Qatar

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Subject: 29.4836, Calls: Arabic, Standard; Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Qatar

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:19:57
From: Vladimir Kulikov [vkulikov at qu.edu.qa]
Subject: Linguistics in the Gulf 6

 
Full Title: Linguistics in the Gulf 6 
Short Title: LGC-6 

Date: 01-Apr-2019 - 02-Apr-2019
Location: Doha, Qatar 
Contact Person: Vladimir Kulikov
Meeting Email: lingingulf at qu.edu.qa
Web Site: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/departments/dell%E2%80%93home/linguistics%E2%80%93gulf%E2%80%93conf 

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

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Call Deadline: 06-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

After the success of the previous five conferences held in 2007-2015, the
Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University, is pleased
to announce its 6th Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC-6), to be held on
April 1-2, 2019. 
The conference is aimed at bringing together regional and international
researchers to share research ideas and results in formal linguistics and
sociolinguistics. 

Keynote speakers:

Robert Phillipson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Management, Society
and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is an author and
editor of books on linguistic imperialism, language rights, language policy,
and multilingual education. He will present a talk “Languages in public policy
and global English mythology”.

Jonathan Owens, Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the Bayreuth International
Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. His
research interests are in Arabic Linguistics, including spoken Arabic
(sociolinguistics, dialectology, codeswitching, discourse analysis), the
Arabic grammatical tradition, and history of Arabic. He will present a talk
“Multiple pathways: Descriptive and methodological issues in interpreting
Arabic language history”.


2nd Call for Papers:

The 1st Call for Papers can be found on the official conference website
(http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/departments/dell%E2%80%93home/linguistics%E
2%80%93gulf%E2%80%93conf) and on Linguist List
(https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3586.html).

LGC-6 invites abstracts that deal with any aspect of language in the Gulf and
more generally in the Arabic-speaking world, including but not limited to the
following areas:

- Bilingualism and diglossia
- Multilingualism
- Language contact, variation and change
- Language ideology, planning and policies
- Language and identity
- Linguistic and semiotic landscapes
- Computer-mediated communication
- Discourse analysis of Arabic literary and non-literary texts
- Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics
- Language acquisition & learning
- Educational linguistics
- Corpus and computational linguistics and data processing
- Neurolinguistics and bilingual language processing
- Formal, social, and/or functional aspects of sign language(s)
- Translation and interpreting

Notes:

- Abstracts must be submitted online by January 6, 2019 through EasyAbs (Easy
Abstracts) at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/lingingulf6
- Abstracts should not exceed 400 words (not counting references) and not
indicate the name and/or the affiliation of the author(s).
- Please address your questions related to the conference to
lingingulf at qu.edu.qa.

Important dates:

1. Abstract submission deadline: January 6, 2019.
2. Notification of acceptance: by January 31, 2019.
3. Program and schedule: by February 7, 2019.




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