[EDLING:2354] CFP: NEWCASTLE CONFERENCE IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

[Francis M. Hult]

http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/pglinguistics/

The 2nd Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

25 June 2007

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce the Second Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in 
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. 

This one-day conference, involving the Schools of English, Modern Languages and 
Education, and Communication and Language Sciences, is designed to give 
linguistics postgraduates from all research areas an opportunity to present and 
discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting. 

Professor Fassi Fehri (newly appointed as visiting Professor at Newcastle 
University) and Professor Antonella Sorace (Professor of Developmental 
Linguistics, Edinburgh University) will be giving the guest lectures at this 
year's conference. 

We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral and poster 
presentations on ANY area of linguistics, theoretical or applied (see below for 
abstract submission guidelines). 

Key Dates
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, 23rd March. Notification 
will be by the end of April. The conference itself takes place at Newcastle 
University on Monday 25th June. 

Abstract Submission Guidelines
Abstracts should be sent to pgconfling at ncl.ac.uk. Email submissions only, 
please (Microsoft Word/PDF format only). See Abstract submission guidelines for 
further information. 

Presentation Guidelines
Accepted abstracts will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes 
for discussion. There will be a dedicated poster session on the day of the 
conference, but posters will be on display all day. Speakers will also be 
invited to submit their paper for publication in the Newcastle University 
Working Papers in Linguistics. 

Further Information
If you have any queries, please email pgconfling at ncl.ac.uk