[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: "Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social and typological perspectives", 8-10 June 2015, Helsinki

[Svetlana Vetchinnikova]

First call for papers
"Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social and typological 
perspectives"
June 8-10, 2015
University of Helsinki

Following the success of the ChangE 2013 conference, the Changing 
English consortium of researchers from the universities of Helsinki, 
Tampere, and Eastern Finland is pleased to announce a follow-up 
conference entitled "Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social and 
typological perspectives" to be held on 8-10 June 2015, at the 
University of Helsinki.

With the enormous variety of Englishes we are witnessing today – as a 
lingua franca, as World English varieties, as a second language – a wide 
range of research perspectives and paradigms have been brought to bear 
on the study of contemporary English. What this conference seeks to 
achieve, like its predecessor, is to bring a number of these different 
perspectives into fruitful dialogue with each other. We are particularly 
interested in the processes and products of intense, complex and 
sustained language contact in different L1 and L2 varieties. Thus, we 
hope to bring together scholars from different research traditions 
including but not limited to the following major areas:

− contact linguistics
− typology
− English as a lingua franca (ELF)
− second language acquisition and use (SLA and SLU)
− cognitive linguistics
− multilingualism

Corpus linguistic approaches to the said topics are highly welcome.

We are honoured that the following keynote speakers have already 
confirmed their participation in the conference:

Edgar Schneider, University of Regensburg
Nick Ellis, University of Michigan
Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London
Peter Siemund, University of Hamburg

Abstracts for full paper presentations may be submitted via the Easy 
Abstracts facility of the Linguist List which can be accessed through 
the conference website. A full paper presentation will be allowed 20 
minutes with five minutes for questions and discussion (25 minutes 
total). Abstracts should be of 150-200 words (excluding references) and 
include 3-5 keywords. Please format your references according to the 
“Unified style sheet for linguistics”, a copy of which can be found on 
the conference website. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 
December 2014. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by the scientific 
committee, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 16 
February 2015.

The conference language is English.

For more information on the conference, please see the conference 
website: http://www.helsinki.fi/change/2015

You can contact us by writing to changing-english at helsinki.fi

Welcome to Helsinki in 2015!

ChangE team

Anna Mauranen, Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Svetlana Vetchinnikova, 
Ray Carey, Paul Rickman, Heli Paulasto, Lea Meriläinen, Sanna Hillberg, 
Hanna Parviainen, Kaisa Pietikäinen


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