Corpora: First Circular and Call for Papers

[PALC 2003]

PALC 2003 (PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE CORPORA)
(Department of English Language, Lodz University)

FIRST CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS

AIMS
The Department of English Language at Lodz University plans to hold the 4th
international conference devoted to PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE
CORPORA. The general topic of the conference is the relationship between
language corpora and their uses in a range of language and linguistic
fields. Our aim is to provide a forum for practical exemplifications of
language corpora (written and spoken) in action and a forum for fruitful
interaction between scholars. Hopefully, such a conference will act as a
stimulus to teaching, and to scholarly and critical research.

DATES
The conference will be held over 3 days, 4 to 6 April 2003 (arrival day 3
April) at the Lodz University Conference Centre. We expect approximately 100
participants from Poland and Central Europe, Western Europe and other parts
of the world.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
We have invited a number of internationally known scholars in corpus
linguistics and related fields to be plenary speakers. Their names will be
made public in the second circular.

TOPICS (All papers must be corpus-based.)
We invite papers on such topics as:
Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
Discourse and Language Corpora
ESP and Language Corpora
Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems in Corpora
FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
Language Teaching Materials and Language Corpora
Language Teaching and Learner Corpora
Lexicography and Language Corpora
Lexicology and Language Corpora,
Literature and Language Corpora
Phonetics/Phonology and Language Corpora
Translation and Language Corpora,
Other corpus-related topics

ABSTRACTS
Abstracts of papers should be up to 750 words long and forwarded (by e-mail,
fax or mail) to the organisers. Deadline for submission of abstracts is  24
November 2002.
Presentations should last 45 minutes including demonstrations, questions and
discussion.

PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Selected papers from the conference will be published by an international
publisher.

COSTS
The cost of conference registration, accommodation and fullboard at the
conference centre is:

Participants from Central and Eastern Europe:
(fee: 200 PLN + accommodation/fullboard: 550PLN) 750 PLN
N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by 31 December 2002 is 650 PLN

Participants from Western Europe, the Americas, Far East, Others
(fee: $150 + accommodation/fullboard: $300) $450
N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by  31 December 2002 is $400

The conference fee will cover conference materials, participation in
sessions, etc. Accommodation/fullboard will include accommodation in a
single, twin or double room at the Lodz University Conference Centre, three
meals a day, coffee breaks, conference dinner and social programme.


PAYMENT
Payment should be by cheque (in US dollars or equivalent in other
currencies), made out to:
Lodz University, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (PALC'03)
and forwarded to:
University of Lodz
Department of English Language
Al. Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz
Poland

Alternatively, cash or cheque payment can be made on arrival.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Prof. dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Dr Krzysztof Kredens
Dr Agnieszka Leńko
Dr Stanislaw Roszkowski

Department of English Language
Al. Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz
Poland
tel: (#48) 42 639 02 20
fax: (#48) 42 639 02 18

e-mail: corpora at krysia.uni.lodz.pl

FURTHER INFORMATION
Further details about the conference will be publicised in regular circulars
to participants and academic institutions.

Official language of the conference will be English