[Corpora-List] Second Call for Papers -- FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODALITY IN ENGLISH (ModE4)

Sun Feb 7 18:14:58 UTC 2010

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODALITY IN ENGLISH (ModE4)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September 2010 

Departamento de Filología Inglesa I 

http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/se5065/ 

DEADLINE EXTENSION: 21st FEBRUARY 2010 

SECOND CIRCULAR 

The 4th International Conference on Modality in English will take place at
the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September
2010. 

The conference is designed to be a follow-up to the: 

– International Conference on Modality in Contemporary English, University
of Verona (Italy), 6-8 September 2001. 

– Second International Conference on Modality in English, University of Pau
(France), 2-4 September 2004. 

– Third International Conference on Modality in English, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 4-6 May 2007. 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

ModE4 invites the submission of papers and posters from all (sub)domains of
modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. In
addition to individual talks, we also welcome proposals for theme sessions.
The conference aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between
researchers working in modality and evidentiality in English, and to bring
to the fore the most recent developments in the field. 

PLENARY SPEAKERS 

Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) 

Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego) 

Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster) 

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (University of Ghent) 

Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 

VENUE 

The venue of the conference will be the Facultad de Filología, on the campus
of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which is of easy access from the
city centre and the hotels. (There are convenient bus links and an
underground station on campus). 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS 

Papers and posters are invited on all topics belonging to the field of
modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. 

Presentations of papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for
questions. 

Authors of papers and posters should submit anonymous abstracts, together
with a separate page specifying the author's name, affiliation, surface mail
address and e-mail address. Abstracts should be between 600-700 words
(excluding references), and should state research questions, approach,
method, data and (expected) results. 

All submitted abstracts will go through a double-blind reviewing process (at
least two reviewers). 

Abstracts should be sent by e-mail, as attachments, to ModE4
(mode4 at filol.ucm.es) 

Please use Word or RTF format; and if your abstract contains special
symbols, please include a PDF version as well. 

The new deadline for all abstracts (papers and posters) is 21 February 2010.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010. 

THEME SESSIONS 

There will be three theme sessions at the Conference: 

(i) The Modality of Intersubjectivity. This theme session focuses on the
identification of the linguistic and non-linguistic (multimodal) overt and
covert strategies exploited by the speaker/writer to convey their point, to
involve the addressee(s) and, finally, to lead them to share such point.
Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenor: Prof. Roberta
Facchinetti, Università degli Studi di Verona. 

(ii) Modality in English and Spanish: functional and corpus-based
perspectives. This theme session will focus on a number of functional and
corpus-based aspects of the contrastive study of modality in English and
Spanish as a topic of theoretical and applied relevance in a number of
research contexts. Modality will be considered as the expression of a number
of semantic categories clustered around the notions of speaker’s commitment
and non-factuality. Special emphasis will be given to the relationship
between modality and evaluative language. Convenor: Prof. Julia Lavid,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 

(iii) Evidentiality and Modality: Cross-linguistic perspectives. This theme
session will focus on corpus-based contrastive studies of evidential and
modal markers, on the overlap of the domains of evidentiality and modality,
and the interplay of semantic meanings with pragmatic and discourse factors.
Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenors: Profs. Juana Marín and
Marta Carretero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 

The sessions will consist of two one hour and a half slots (maximum 5
papers) focusing on a common topic within modality and/or evidentiality.
Each theme session should include a 30-minute slot for final discussion on
the topic. 

Abstracts for theme sessions (i) and (iii) should be sent by e-mail, as
attachments, to ModE4 (mode4 at filol.ucm.es) 

The new deadline for abstracts is 21 February 2010. 

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010. 

REGISTRATION 

Registration will start from April 1 onwards. Registration fees are
anticipated to be the following: 

Early registration fee (from 1 April 2010 to 31 May 2010): 150 Euros 

Students (without salary or grant): 70 Euros 

Late registration fee: 180 Euros 

Students (without salary or grant): 100 Euros 

The registration fee includes the conference materials, coffee/tea, the
conference reception, and a walking tour to places of interest in Madrid. 

SOCIAL PROGRAMME 

There will be a reception at the Facultad de Filología on the 8th September.
The walking tour of Madrid (included in the registration fee) will take
place on the 9th., and the conference dinner on the 10th. On Saturday
afternoon there will be a post-conference excursion to Toledo (optional),
where we plan to visit the Cathedral, the Sephardic Museum, the Sinagoga de
Sta. María la Blanca and the Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz (full details
will be given in due course on the conference website). 

IMPORTANT DATES 

21 February 2010: New deadline for submission of abstracts 

31 March 2010: Notification of acceptance 

1 April 2010: Early registration starts 

1 June 2010: Registration (full fee) 

PUBLICATIONS 

Conference Proceedings will be published either in a scientific journal or
in a book. 

A special volume with selected papers will also be published. 

ModE GENERAL COMMITTEE 

- Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) 

- Pierre Busuttil (University of Pau) 

- Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona) 

- Paul Larreya (University of Paris 13) 

- Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

- Juana I. Marín-Arrese (Chair): juana at filol.ucm.es

- Marta Carretero (Secretary): mcarrete at filol.ucm.es

- Jorge Arús 

- Elena Domínguez 

- Carmen Maíz Arévalo 

- Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa 

- Juan Rafael Zamorano 

CONTACT 

ModE4 Organizing committee: 

Departamento de Filología Inglesa I 

Facultad de Filología 

Universidad Complutense de Madrid 

Ciudad Universitaria, s/n 

E-28040 Madrid 

Spain 

Phone: +34-91-394-5357/5835/5382 

Fax: +34-91-394-5762/5357 

E-mail: mode4 at filol.ucm.es 

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