Call for Papers: 1st Nordic Conf. Clinical Linguistics

[Jaana Ravattinen]

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First Call for Papers

The First Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics


Time: February 9 and 10, 2008 (Saturday and Sunday)

Venue: University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland

The meeting may be seen as a re-birth of the series of meetings that was
arranged in Finland during the 1980s and 1990s. These events were called
Finnish Conferences of Neurolinguistics, but, in effect, they were
Nordic/Scandinavian in their scope, if not wider.

The conference is aimed to be a theoretically and linguistically oriented
meeting dealing with language pathology and/or language in clinical 
populations, e.g., acquired and childhood aphasia, specific/familial language
impairment, autism spectrum disorder, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s
dementia.

The conference will include plenary presentations by internationally
distinguished scholars as well as 30-minute section papers and posters. We also

welcome closed workshops and open-to-all special sessions to be held in
conjunction with the conference.

A general abstract submission deadline of December 3, 2007 is valid for:

– abstracts (1 page) for section papers and posters,

– abstracts for workshop/special session proposals (1-page abstract for the
description of the workshop/special session, plus 1-page abstract for each
contribution within the workshop/special session).

Submission mode: By mid-May 2007 the conference web page will carry a link to a
web form that is to be used in abstract submission.

Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2007.

The proceedings will be published as a volume/volumes in Studies in Languages, 
University of Joensuu, following a peer-review of each submission (see 
http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/studiesinlanguages.shtml for the list of the
40
titles published in this series).

Further information

(a) will be posted on the web site at: 
http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/NorConfClinLing2008/

(b) or you may write to us at: NorClinLing2008 at joensuu.fi

For paper mail address and fax, see the end of this call.

In due time, the conference web page will contain, e.g., information on
conference fee, travel, accommodation and other practical matters as well as
the program.


   Welcome to Joensuu!

On Behalf of the Organizing Committee

Jussi Niemi                     Stefan Werner           Jaana Ravattinen
Chair                           Co-chair                Secretary

Fax: +358-13-251 4211 (Department)

E-mail:  NorClinLing2008 at joensuu.fi

http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/NorConfClinLing2008/
http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics

University site: http://www.joensuu.fi/englishindex.html
City of Joensuu site: http://www.jns.fi/


P.S. The Clinical Linguistics conference will partially overlap with the Annual
National (read: "Finnish”) Winter Meeting on Autism arranged at Joensuu by the
Finnish Association for Autism and Asperger's Syndrom (see:
http://www.autismiliitto.fi/) on February 8 and 9, 2008.