Spanish in the United States: Call for Papers

[Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg]

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                Spanish in the United States
                      Call for Papers:
                De: Ana Roca <rocaa at fiu.edu>
      Información distribuida por: The Linguistc List
        http://linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-1368.html
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  XVII National Conference on Spanish in the United States
            Reminder. Call for Papers Deadline:
                      October 19, 1998
                     March 11-13, 1999
         Coral Gables (Miami-Dade County) and Miami

    Sponsored by The Department of Modern Languages and
    the Latin American and Caribbean Center
     Florida International University, Miami, Florida


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Guadalupe Valds, Stanford University
Dr. John M. Lipski, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)


    Abstracts for 20-minute papers are invited on the
following topics related to Spanish in the United States:

   - language maintenance and language shift,
   - language variation,
   - discourse analysis,
   - language policy and planning issues,
   - attitudes and politics,
   - testing,
   - heritage language education in the secondary schools and
       in higher education,
   - language and public life (such as court interpreting,
       Spanish and the law, Spanish in the media, Spanish
       in the corporate world, Spanish journalism),
   - bilingual education,
   - other relevant sociolinguistic topics and issues
       pertaining to Spanish in the United States.

    Persons interested in presenting a paper at the
Conference are requested to submit five copies of a
one-page abstract of the paper. The abstract
should be accompanied by a separate page stating the title
of the paper, your name, affiliation, institutional
address, your telephone numbers including fax, e-mail
address, and home address and telephone number. Please do
not identify yourself on the abstract itself. A
bibliography may be included on a second page of the
abstract if necessary.

    Abstracts cannot be accepted by mail and must be
received by October 19, 1998. Queries and abstracts should
be addressed to:

Dr. Ana Roca, Conference Chair
XVII Spanish in the United States Conference
Department of Modern Languages
Florida International University
DM 498A
Miami, FL 33199
Estados Unidos

Tel.: 305-348-2046, 305-348-2851
Rocaa at fiu.edu

    Absracts will be reviewed anonymously by an abstract
committee and notification will be sent by the end of
November.

    Full conference information will be available at a
later date on a web site which is currently being set up
via FIU (Spanish in the United States). You can also
obtain further conferenece information by calling
305-348-2894 (ask for Marla Castellanos) after November
20.

    Hotel rates at the David Williams Hotel are set at $99
per night (special conference rate and a great rate for
Miami during the season). The actual conference will be at
the nearby and beautiful The Biltmore Hotel in Coral
Gables. For reservations at the David Williams Hotel,
call: 305-445-7821 and explain you are requesting the
arranged conference rate for FIU's Spanish in the US
Conference. Contact person there: Ruby González, Sales
Representative. Space is limited and reservations must be
made by around February 10 in order to obtain the less
expensive conference rate.

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