Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (focus includes heritage speakers and emigrants) -- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION 01/15/02

[Scott McGinnis]

Call for papers: First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the
University at Albany (State University of New York) is pleased to
announce its First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics March 14th &
15th, 2002.  The focus will be on:

a. Dialectical variation of Spanish: both at the geographic and the
social level.

b.  Spanish in contact including:
*  Spanish in contact with other languages:

     1. In Spain: Contact with Basque, Catalan, Galician, Valencian,
etc.
     2. In South America: contact with indigenous language including
Mayan
        languages, Belize, Quechua, Aymara, Tupi-Guarani, etc.
     3. Elsewhere: Contact with Portuguese, Arabic, Philippine languages

*  Spanish/English bilingualism in the US: both in the case of heritage
        speakers and emigrants.

We welcome original papers (30 minutes in length) on any situation of
dialectal variation, language contact, and bilingualism that involves
Spanish.  Abstracts should be submitted via email to Lotfi Sayahi
 <mailto:sayahi at albany.edu> sayahi at albany.edu no later than January 15,
2002. Please include:

1. title of the paper
2. author(s)'s name
3. author(s)'s affiliation
4. one-page abstract
5. a 100-word summary.

Send enquiries to: Sayahi at albany.edu

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