[EDLING:775] CFP: South Asian Language Analysis

[Francis M Hult]

> 25th Annual Meeting of the South Asian Language Analysis
> Short Title: SALA-25
>
> Date: 16 - 18 September, 2005
> Location: Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
> Contact: Rakesh M. Bhatt
> Contact Email: sala-25 at uiuc.edu
> Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/shappeck/sala25/
> index.htm
>
> Linguistic Sub-field: General and Applied Linguistics
>
> Abstract Deadline: 2 May, 2005
>
> Meeting Description:
>
> This year the annual meeting of the South Asian Language
> Analysis roundtable is celebrating its 25th (silver)
> anniversary and it also coincides with the 40th anniversary
> of the Department of Linguistics. The conference will consist
> of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session.
> There will be a pre-conference symposium on language teaching
> on September 15.
>
> PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM: September 15, 2005, 9 am ? 4 pm,
> Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building, University of
> Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
>
> SYMPOSIUM THEME: Heritage Learners: Overcoming Curricular
> Challenges (Organizer, Dr. Steven Poulos, Director, SALRC)
>
> Invited Speaker: Silvina Montrul, Helen Corley Petit
> Professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of
> Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
>
> Preconference Symposium Abstract Deadline: April 30, 2005.
>
> Abstracts are invited for 30 minute paper presentations
> addressing issues of instructional methodologies in heritage
> language programs, focusing on research highlighting:
> ? Differences between heritage and non-heritage learner
> outcomes
> ? Transmission and maintenance of heritage languages,
> ? Bilingualism and biculturalism,
> ? Curricular policy development,
> ? Teaching culture, learning language
>
>
> GENERAL SESSION
>
> The General Session will cover all areas of South Asian
> linguistic interest. We encourage individual papers or panel
> proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and especially
> welcome those with interdisciplinary focus.
>
> Invited speakers:
>
> ? Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts)
> ? Tara Mohanan and K. P. Mohanan (National University of
> Singapore)
> ? K. V. Subbarao (University of Delhi)
>
>
> PARASESSION:  ?South Asian Perspectives on Applied Language
> Science''
>
> This parasession brings together leading scholars from
> different parts of the world to focus and highlight, for the
> first time in this forum, a range of theoretical-conceptual,
> methodological, and empirical contributions that studies in
> South Asian languages have made to the area of applied
> linguistics.
>
> Invited speakers:
>
> ? Tej K. Bhatia: Syracuse University, USA
> ? Shyamala Chengappa (TBC): All India Institute of Speech and
> Hearing, Mysore, India
> ? Hans Heinrich Hock: University of Illinois, Urbana-
> Champaign, USA
> ? Raj Mesthrie: University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South
> Africa
> ? Rajeshwari Pandharipande: University of Illinois, Urbana-
> Champaign, USA
> ? Tariq Rahman: University of California, Berkeley, USA, and
> Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
> ? Hal Schiffman: University of Pennsylvania, USA
> ? Udaya Narayan Singh: Central Institute of Indian Languages,
> Mysore, India
> ? Richard Sproat: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
> USA
>
>
>
> SPECIAL SESSION:  ?Language in Globalization: Perspectives
> from South Asian Languages?
>
> This session brings together scholars in the field of South
> Asian language studies who will discuss the implications of
> globalization on the dynamics of (multi-lingual) communities,
> (plural) identities, movements of linguistic capital in
> global and transnational spaces, and, especially, on the
> forms of sociolinguistic representations that are responses
> to non-local contexts and influences.
>
> Invited speakers:
>
> ? Vaidehi Ramanathan: University of California, Davis
> ? Pradeep Dhillon: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> ? Braj B. Kachru: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> ? S. N. Sridhar: SUNY-Stony Brook
>
>
> ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
> Abstracts must be postmarked by
>
>             *** April 15, 2005 ***
>
> An author may submit at most one single and one joint
> abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be
> designated for communication with SALA. Abstracts should be
> as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach
> and conclusions, and should be no more than 400 words (not
> including data and references, which may be placed
> on the reverse side).  5 copies of an anonymous, one-page
> (8.5''x11'') abstract should be sent, along with a 3''x5''
> card listing:
>      (1) paper title
>      (2) session (General/Para/Special)
>      (3) name(s) of author(s)
>      (4) affiliation(s) of author(s)
>      (5) address where notification of acceptance should be
> sent
>      (6) phone number for each author
>      (7) email address for each author
>      (8) subfield (syntax, phonology, discourse analysis,
> bilingualism etc.)
>
>
> SEND ABSTRACTS TO
> 	SALA 25
> 	Department of Linguistics
> 	University Of Illinois
> 4080 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave
> Urbana, IL 61801, USA
>
> Abstracts may also be submitted via e-mail. Only those
> abstracts formatted PDF or Microsoft Word (Mac version
> preferred) can be accepted. Electronically submitted
> abstracts should have the author's name as filename, followed
> by the appropriate file extension. The text of the message
> must contain the information requested in (1)-(8) above. We
> cannot accept faxed abstracts.  Send electronic submissions
> to <sala-25 at uiuc.edu>.
>
>
> PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION
> Individual presentations are allotted 20 minutes plus 10
> minutes for discussion. Panels can be proposed for either a
> 2-hr or a 3-hr period.  An attempt will be made to publish
> selected papers (revised and edited) presented at the
> conference.
>
>
> REGISTRATION INFORMATION
> All attendees, including presenters, must register for the
> conference. For advance registration, we can accept only
> checks or money orders drawn on US banks in US dollars, made
> payable to the University of Illinois.
>
>     Received in our office by September 1, 2005:
> Residents of South Asian countries:
> Students	$10
> Non-students	$30
>
> Others:
> Students	$30
> Non-students	$60
>
>     On-site, or received after September 1, 2005:
>  	Students	$40
> Non-students 	$70
>
> SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION TO:
> Marco Shappeck
> SALA 25 Registration
> 4080 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave
> Urbana, IL 61801, USA