Corpora: Conference on Modality in English: approachng deadline

[Roberta Facchinetti]

With apologies for any multiple postings: 


                Modality in Contemporary English"
          International Conference, 6-8 September 2001,
                      University of Verona, Italy
http://www.univr.it/cla/conferences/modality/modality_index.htm


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      APPROACHING DEADLINE: 28th February 2001
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AIM
The conference aims at fostering interaction between scholars from different
theoretical backgrounds but with a common interest in English modality, with
specific reference to the Present-day, hence promoting discussions,
exchanging ideas and reporting recent progress on a variety of issues
related to this field.

 
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper proposals are welcomed on all aspects of verbal and non-verbal 
modality in Present-day English. We particularly solicit work describing 
research in the following fields:  
 
n      modality and language teaching
n      syntax and semantics of modal elements
n     modality and phonetics / prosody
n     modality and sociolinguistics
n     modality and pragmatics
NB: papers that will report on comparisons between the expression of modality in 
English and in other languages will be particularly  welcomed.
 

Authors should submit an anonymous abstract  of at most  3  A4 pages, including figures/tables and references, together with a separate page specifying the author's names, affiliation, surface mail address, and e-mail address. 
We strongly encourage electronic submission (.doc, .txt, .rtf, .pdf), preferably as an attachment. Please, send abstracts to:  
Prof. Roberta Facchinetti (faro at chiostro.univr.it). If sent by surface mail (see address below), please include disk.  
 
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DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION: 28th February 2001 
Notification of acceptance: 30th March, 2001
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For further information, please contact: 
Prof. Roberta Facchinetti
Faculty of Education
University of Verona
Via S. Francesco, 22
37129 VERONA
ITALY
tel.: +39 045 8028-465/-790
fax: +39 0363 815356