[EDLING:1804] CFP: Pragmatics and Language Learning

[Francis M Hult]

> The National Foreign Language Resource Center, in conjunction with the
> National Resource Center - East Asia (NRCEA) and the Department of Second
> Language Studies (SLS), at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa are pleased
> to announce the . . .
> 
> 
>     17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRAGMATICS & LANGUAGE LEARNING
> 	     Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center
> 		        Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
> 			   March 26-28, 2007
> 
> 		 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/
> 
> 
> The conference will address a broad range of topics in pragmatics,
> discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second
> and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a
> variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
> 
> 
> PLENARY SPEAKERS:
> 	* Junko Mori, University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 	* Steven Talmy, University of British Columbia
> 
> INVITED COLLOQUIA:
> 	* Study Abroad Experiences from a Language Socialization
> 	  Perspective
> 	  (Convener: Haruko Cook, University of Hawai'i)
> 	* Negotiating the Self in Another Language: Discourse Approaches
> 	  to Language Learning as Cross-cultural Adaptation
> 	  (Convener: Christina Higgins, University of Hawai'i)
> 
> INVITED WORKSHOPS:
> 	* Using Questionnaires in Research on Pragmatics
> 	  (Facilitator: Kenneth Rose, City University Hong Kong)
> 	* Pragmatics in Computer-mediated Communication
> 
> 
> CALL FOR PROPOSALS (DEADLINE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2006):
> 
> Proposals for presentation are welcome on topics such as
> 
> 	* L2 talk and text
> 	* Developmental L2 pragmatics
> 	* Pragmatics in language education
> 	* Pragmatics in language assessment
> 	* Pragmatics in computer-mediated communication
> 	* Theory and methodology in pragmatics
> 
> Proposals may be submitted for PAPERS (20 minutes for presentation, 10
> minutes for discussion) and POSTERS. Abstracts for all presentation
> formats undergo blind peer review.
> 
> ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2006
> 
> 
> For more information about the conference or to submit a proposal online,
> visit our website at:
> 
> 	http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/
> 
> 
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