6th General Linguistics Conference (Santiago de Compostela, May 2004)

[Ana Isabel Co desido García]

6th General Linguistics Conference
Santiago de Compostela (3-7 May, 2004)

FIRST CIRCULAR

The 6th General Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of
Santiago de Compostela from May the 3rd to the 7th, 2004. As in previous
occasions, the main aim of the conference is to serve as a forum for the
presentation and discussion of the activities and achievements of researchers
working in the area of General Linguistics.

The basic organizational structure of the conference will be as follows:
- plenaries by highly-reputed specialists;
- Individual papers;
- Intersection and contrast of papers on the same subject-area, coordinated by
a moderator;
- Research panels showing work done by the various General Linguistics research
groups in Spanish universities.

Contribution proposals will be sorted into the following categories: (1)
Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Ethnography of Communication; (2)
Sociolinguistics; (3) Technological Linguistics (electronic dictionaries,
corpus linguistics, transcription tools, etc.); (4) Language Typology; (5)
Phonetics and Phonology; (6) Grammar; (7) Semantics; (8) Psycholinguistics and
Neurolinguistics; (9) History of Linguistics; (10) Linguistic Theory and
Methodology; (11) Forensic Linguistics; (12) Clinical Linguistics; (13)
Language Teaching and Learning; (14) Translation Theory and Practice; (15) Sign
Language; (16) Historical Linguistics; (17) Linguistic Anthropology; (18)
Linguistic Terminology; (19) Language Planning.

Proposals for papers and research panels must be submitted before 15 October,
2003. Abstracts must fulfill the following conditions: they should be no longer
than 500 words (aprox.), use single spacing and 11 point Times New Roman type;
they should include a presentation of the topic as well as a general, clear
outline of the content and main ideas presented. Proposals, which should also
be accompanied by the contributor’s personal data, should be sent in MS Word
97’s (preferably) RTF format as an e-mail attachment to the following e-mail
address, viclg2 at usc.es. Finally, a paper version should also be sent to the
Conference Secretary (see postal address below).

In the second circular (to be sent in July 2003) the format conditions for the
presentation of both the actual papers and panels will be specified.
Furthermore, as important changes will made to the traditional conference
organisation, the second circular will also contain a detailed description of
the new conference structure.


Postal address:
Área de Lingüística Xeral
Facultade de Filoloxía
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Campus Norte, s/n
15782 Santiago de Compostela

Phone number: +34 981 563 100, ext. 11774/11776/11799/11976
Fax number: +34 981 574 646
E-mail address: viclg2 at usc.es