Call for Papers

[mminami at sfsu.edu]

The Fourth Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of
Japanese (ICPLJ)  Call for Papers

April 3 & 4, 2004
San Francisco State University

Keynote Speaker: Timothy J. Vance, University of Arizona

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Aims and Scope
*	ICPLJ is intended to bring together researchers on the
cutting edge of Japanese linguistics and to offer a forum in which
their research results can be presented in a form that is useful to
those desiring practical applications in the fields of teaching
Japanese as a second/foreign language and computer-assisted language
learning (CALL) technology.
*	All topics in linguistics will be fully considered,
including:  phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon,
pragmatics (discourse analysis), second language acquisition
(bilingualism).
*	Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.

Publication
A book of selected papers presented at the conference will be
published.  The publication of the papers enables the ideas from the
conference to reach an even larger audience around the world, further
benefiting countless researchers, teachers, and their students.

Conference Language
The length of each presentation will be thirty minutes (20 minutes
for exposition, 10 minutes for questions).  Presentations may be in
either English or Japanese.

Submission Guidelines
All submissions should be mailed and postmarked by November 1, 2003.
(We regret that we cannot accept submissions by fax or e-mail.)
*	Three copies of a clearly titled one-page summary, on which
the author is not identified (on A4 or letter-size paper, in 12 point
type, with at least 1.25 inch [approximately 3 cm] margins on all
sides).  This summary will be used for review, as well as for
inclusion in the conference program book if your abstract is
accepted.  Examples, figures, tables, and references may be given on
a second page.  Please note the following:  (1) All conference papers
will be selected on the basis of summaries submitted.  (2) Any
information that may reveal your identity should not be included in
the summary.  (3) Summaries will be accepted in Japanese or English.
(4) If the language in which you would like to give your presentation
differs from the language of your written summary, please let us
know.  (5) No changes in the title or the authors' names will be
possible after acceptance.  (6) You may be requested to send in a
copy of your summary (in MS-Word format) on a PC or MAC formatted
disk.
*	For each author, please attach one copy of the information
form printed at the bottom of this sheet

Deadline
All submissions must be received by November 1, 2003.
(Please do not send summaries by e-mail or fax.  Information
regarding the previous conferences may be accessed at:
http://www.sfsu.edu/~japanese/conference/.)

Send submissions to:
Dr. Masahiko Minami, Conference Chair
Dr. Makiko Asano, Conference Co-Chair
Fourth Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of
Japanese (ICPLJ)
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94132
Telephone: (415) 338-7451
e-mail: icplj at sfsu.edu

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Author Information Form (fill out one form completely for each author)

Paper Title:

Topic area:
Audiovisual requests:

(1st Author) Full name:
Affiliation:
Address:
E-mail:
Phone number:
FAX number (if available)

(2nd Author) Full name:
Affiliation:
Address:
E-mail:
Phone number:
FAX number (if available)

*	To accommodate as many papers as possible, we reserve the
right to limit each submitter to one paper in any authorship status.
*	If your paper is not one of those initially selected for oral
presentation, please indicate whether you would be willing to have it
considered as an alternate or for poster presentation:

	_____ 	Yes, consider me as an alternate if necessary.
	_____ 	Yes, consider me for poster presentation if necessary.
	_____ 	No, please do not consider me either as an alternate
or for poster presentation.