Call for papers: International symposium on bilingualism -- DEADLINE 1 OCTOBER

[Scott McGinnis]

Date:  Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:08:24 +0100 (BST)
From:  "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject:  3rd International Symposium on Bilingualism

Third International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB3)

Local Organisers:
Centre for European Studies (CES), Faculty of Languages and European Studies
(LES)
University of the West of England, Bristol

Wednesday 18 April 2001 to Friday 20 April 2001

Venue: University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane,
Bristol BS16 1QY, UK

ACADEMIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Professor Colin Baker (Wales/Bangor), Felix Bihlmeier (UWE), Dr Helmut
Daller
(UWE),
Dr Margaret Deuchar (Wales/Bangor), Professor Ullrich Kockel (UWE),
Dr Nicholas Miller (Newcastle),
Professor Li Wei (Newcastle), Dr Stephen May (Bristol),
Dr Susan Price (UWE), Professor Michael Scriven (UWE),
Professor Gisela Shaw (UWE), Dr Jeanine Treffers-Daller
(UWE)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Jim Cummins (Toronto)
Dr Ton Dijkstra (Nijmegen)
Professor Nancy Hornberger (Pennsylvania)
Professor Juergen Meisel (Hambu
Professor Suzanne Romaine (Oxford)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference organisers welcome papers from Theoretical, Sociolinguistic
and Psycholinguistic
approaches to Bilingualism, for example on issues such as the following:

· Language Minorities and Minority Languages
· Language Contact
· Code-switching
· Bilingual First Language Acquisition
· Bilingual Cognitive Processing
· Language Policy
· Trilingualism
· Language Maintenance, Language Shift
· Intercultural Communication
· Elite Bilingualism
· Creole Linguistics
· Endangered Languages

Abstracts:
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 OCTOBER.
Abstracts can be submitted as part of a colloquium
(2-4 hour slot of papers around a topic), or individually
for parallel sessions or posters.
Due to the large number of contributions anticipated, the organisers may
decide to accept a relatively high proportion of papers as
posters.
The criteria for selection will be: originality,
significance to the development of the field, lucidity.
Please see How to Submit Proposals section for further
details. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by
members of the committee during September and October 2000.

HOW TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS
Abstracts are welcomed for oral presentation (20 mins + 10 mins discussion)
or poster presentation.
Please send 4 hard copies, one of which contains your name
and address, as well as an electronic version (Rich Text
Format) on a PC formatted disk, of the abstract to the
address given below.
Please ensure that you save your work in a format readable
by a Windows based PC. We are unable to read Apple
Macintosh formatted disks or files.

Please do NOT send abstracts by email or fax.

Format of Abstracts
Font: 12 pts Roman
Title: centred and bold
Author(s): under the title, with affiliation in parentheses

Please provide full address details, email on a separate page.

PLEASE NOTE: Papers need not be related to a colloquium.
Papers can relate to any topic as specified under the call
for papers. There is room for many individual papers in
special paper sessions, unrelated to the colloquia.

Notification of acceptance
The Academic Committee will study the abstracts in October 2000
and authors will be notified at the beginning of November 2000.

SCHOLARSHIPS
A limited number of scholarships are available, on a
competitive basis, for PhD students whose papers are
accepted at ISB3. Scholarships will cover registration
only. Travel and accommodation costs are not covered.
Please see How to Submit Proposals.
If you wish to apply for a scholarship please enclose a supporting letter
indicating this and aletter from your institution confirming your student
status.  Applications must be received by 1 October 2000.

All further information (about Colloquia, Registration and
Accommodation) can be obtained from the website.
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/research/bilingual/frames.html
email: ISBERG at uwe.ac.uk

Address:
Third International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB3)
University of the West of England
Faculty of Languages and European Studies
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol BS16 1QY
Great Britain
email: ISBERG at uwe.ac.uk
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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
Email: Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk
"University of the West of England"