CFP: Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

[Francis Hult]

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Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies


Full Title: Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies
Short Title: MIMS

Date: 06-Oct-2010 - 08-Oct-2010
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact Person: Peter Siemund
Meeting Email: sfb538uni-hamburg.de
Web Site: http://www.mims.uni-hamburg.de/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2010

Meeting Description:

International Conference on Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

Call for Papers

The Collaborative Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of
Hamburg will be hosting an International Conference on "Multilingual
Individuals
and Multilingual Societies", which will be held from October 6 - 8, 2010.

The conference will focus on the following topics:
- multilingual acquisition
- multilingual communities and multilingual communication
- linguistic variation
- language contact
- language attrition
- linguistic minorities
- educational challenges in multilingual societies
- multilingual language corpora

We invite proposals for: colloquia/workshops, individual papers, and posters on
the topics listed above. Abstracts should be submitted in electronic form. The
deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2010. All abstracts will be
peer reviewed.

Information concerning the required structure of the abstracts and proposals as
well as the relevant submission procedure can be found on the
conference website
(http://www.mims.uni-hamburg.de/submission.html).

A selection of papers will be published in the conference volume "Multilingual
Individuals and Multilingual Societies" in the Series Hamburg Studies on
Multilingualism (John Benjamins, Amsterdam).

Invited Speakers:
- Ingrid Gogolin (University of Hamburg)
- Jürgen M. Meisel (Universities of Hamburg & Calgary)
- Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsoe)
- Donald Winford (Ohio State University)

Local Organizing Committee: Peter Siemund (Chair), Bernhard Brehmer, Christoph
Gabriel, Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber, Svenja Kranich, Bernd Meyer, Kai Wörner

Submissions will be accepted from December 1, 2009 until February 15, 2010.

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