[Corpora-List] 4th Lancaster University PG Conference - First Call For Abstracts

[Costas Gabrielatos]

FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Fourth Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and
Language Teaching 

We are pleased to announce the Fourth Lancaster University Postgraduate
Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (LAEL PG Conference), which
will take place at Lancaster University, on 2nd of July, 2009. This one-day
conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from all research
areas an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal
and intellectually stimulating setting. 

In addition to two plenary speakers, this year's conference will be opened
by Professor Greg Myers (Lancaster University)
[http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/Greg-Myers/], followed by two
presentations given by Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies, Ruth
Wodak (Lancaster University)
[http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/Ruth-Wodak/],  and Professor Jane
Sunderland (Lancaster University)
[http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/Jane-Sunderland/].

We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral or poster
presentations on any area of linguistics or language teaching, theoretical
or applied (see below for abstract submission guidelines). 

Key Dates

- Abstracts must be received by 15 March 2009.
- Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2009.
- Regular registration deadline: 10 May 2009.
- Late registration deadline: 7 June 2009.
- Conference: 2 July 2009.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

- Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and should be submitted via
e-mail as attachments (Microsoft Word/Rich Text Format files). 
- Abstracts should not include the author's name or any other identifying
information. 
- Abstracts should be sent to laelpgabstract at lancaster.ac.uk. No late
submissions will be accepted. 

Please note that we are ONLY accepting abstracts from postgraduate STUDENTS.
We are unable to consider abstracts from authors whose doctoral awards have
already been made. 

Presentation Guidelines

Accepted abstracts will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10
minutes for discussion. 
There will be a dedicated poster session on the day of the conference.
 
Publication Guidelines

Speakers will also be invited to submit their papers for publication in
Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
and Language Teaching, Vol. 4: Papers from LAEL PG 2009.  This is a
peer-reviewed, open-access online publication featuring full papers from the
annual Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and
Language Teaching (LAEL PG). For details see
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/pgconference/ 

For further information, please visit the conference webpage:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/laelpgconference/

If you have any queries, please email laelpgconference at lancaster.ac.uk

The Organising Committee
LAEL PG 2009


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