ICPLJ5 Call for Papers

[Masahiko Minami]

Dear Colleague,

We are writing to you now on behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee
to announce:


The  Fifth Biennial International Conference on
Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ5)

Call for Papers

March 4 (Sat.) & 5 (Sun.), 2006
San Francisco State University

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Aims and Scope
€    ICPLJ5 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€    Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.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" (approximately 12) 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, 2005.
(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.
€    For each author, please attach one copy of the information form printed
at the bottom of this sheet



Deadline
All submissions must be postmarked by November 1, 2005.
(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
Fifth 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.