[Corpora-List] 3rd CfP: International Conference Language Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts

[rita.calabrese at libero.it]

THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS

 

International Conference

Language Variation and Change (LVC) in Postcolonial
Contexts

www.lvc2013.unisa.it



The International Conference on Language Variation and Change in Postcolonial
Contexts  will be held on 18th-19th
April 2013 at the University of Salerno, Italy.

Submissions are invited for oral presentations on the topics described below.
Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing
research, with an emphasis on current approaches, methods, and perspectives,
whether descriptive, theoretical, sociolinguistic or corpus-based.

 

 MOTIVATION AND AIMS

The LVC2013 conference aims:

-to create a space for the discussion of
new and ongoing research and projects on post-colonial language variation.

-to encourage
interactions between researchers with different research perspectives and
methodologies.



TOPICS



We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished studies on language  variation and change, including, but not
limited to:

-language contact issues and their impact on language
change

-all aspects of language variation and change in New
Varieties of English

- synchronic/diachronic  analyses/perspectives in the domain of LVC

-specific issues related to the annotation of corpora
for LVC research

-interdisciplinary studies covering different
registers and genres in postcolonial contexts







INVITED SPEAKERS (Confirmed so far)

Jack Chambers (University of Toronto)

Gerhard Leitner (Freie Universität Berlin)

Joybrato Mukherjee (University of Giessen)

 

 

SUBMISSIONS

Oral presentations
will be in the form of 20 minute papers with 5 minutes for questions. Reviewing of abstracts will be
double-blind. Therefore, the abstract must not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Abstracts of no more than 300 words can be submitted until 1st
December  2012 and sent as a word
attachment to both lvc2013 at unisa.it and rcalabrese at unisa.it

Abstract
checklist:

• Title in bold on all
copies

• Name, affiliation,
address, tel. and e-mail address on separate first page of the electronic copy

• Text: 300 words maximum

• Format: Single spaced,
Times New Roman 12, justified



IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: 1st December
 2012

Notification of acceptance: 15th January  2013

Registration: from 1st  September 2012 to 16th January
2013

Conference: 18th-19th April 2013





SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Rita Calabrese (University of
Salerno)

Mikaela Cordisco (University of
Salerno)

Rachele De Felice (University College
London)

Roberta Facchinetti (University of
Verona)

Siria Guzzo (University of
Salerno)

Oriana Palusci (University of
Naples ‘L’Orientale’)

Katherine E. Russo (University of
Naples ‘L’Orientale’)

 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Paola Attolino (University of
Salerno)

Linda Barone (University of
Salerno)

Maria Grazia De Meo (University of
Salerno)

Ljubica Leone (University of
Salerno)

 

 

 

CONFERENCE FEES

90 EUROS 



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