9.1467, Calls: Storytelling & Linguistics, South Asian Lang.

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1467. Wed Oct 21 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1467, Calls: Storytelling & Linguistics, South Asian Lang.

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1)
Date:  Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:  msanchez at spartan.ac.brocku.ca (Monica Sanchez)
Subject:  International Conference on Storytelling

2)
Date:  Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:57:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Rakesh Bhatt <rakesh at utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject:  South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:  msanchez at spartan.ac.brocku.ca (Monica Sanchez)
Subject:  International Conference on Storytelling




                                CALL FOR PAPERS


                   International Conference on Storytelling
                               August 26-27, 1999

                                Brock University
                        St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada



We welcome the submission of abstracts for 20-25 minute talks. Papers
accepted for presentation will be considered for a proceedings publication.
Submissions may take any perspective as long as they address, in some way,
the issue of storytelling. Specific areas of inquiry include, but are not
limited to the following:

    * Bilingualism                          * Issues of audience
    * Discourse analysis                    * Language acquisition
    * Ethnolinguistics                      * Language change
    * First Nations studies                 * Literary studies of narratives
    * Gender and language                   * Power and language
    * Grammaticalizations                   * Semantic and conceptual structure


The deadline for receiving abstracts is January 18, 1999. Acceptance of
your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register
and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on
March 1, 1999. Send 3 copies of a 1-page, 250 word abstract. Include the
title of the paper on the abstract but not names. Please include a cover
page with the following information:

                * author's name(s) and affiliation(s)
                * mailing address
                * e-mail
                * fax number
                * title of presentation
                * three to five key words


Submissions by e-mail are also encouraged. Abstracts should be sent to:

                International Conference on Storytelling
                c/o Monica Sanchez
                Department of Applied Language Studies
                Brock University
                St. Catharines, Ontario
                L2S 3A1     Canada

        OR      msanchez at spartan.ac.brocku.ca


Note:   Only one individual and one joint abstract per author will be accepted.


For further information, please contact Monica Sanchez at the above
addresses or at the following fax (905) 688-1912 (attn: Monica Sanchez,
ICS).


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:57:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Rakesh Bhatt <rakesh at utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject:  South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable

			Call For Papers

	The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,U.S.A. presents the
20th Conference of the

		SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES ANALYSIS ROUNDTABLE
 			  (July 9-11,1999)
	
SALA 2000 : PRIORITIES AND DIRECTIONS

Panels and individual papers are invited on topics related to South Asian
languages and linguistics.  Special categories of focus are:

* Discourse and Conversational Analysis (i.e., Discourse markers,
    Backchannels, Prosody, Language and Media discourse, Discourse and
    Professions, Registers and Genres)
*Pragmatics
*South Asian Grammatical Traditions
*Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages (Syntax, Semantics,
    Phonology, Morphology)
*Language Acquisition
*South Asian Languages in Diaspora
*Teaching of South Asian Languages
*Language Contact and linguistic Convergence
* General (topics other than the above)

Send three copies of panel/paper abstracts (250 words) by mail or Fax to:
Rajeshwari Pandharipande, Chair
SALA  Committee,
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4088 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Matthews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois-61801, U.S.A.
Fax: 217-333-3466/phone: 217-333-3563
e-mail: raj-pan at uiuc.edu

The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 1, 1999. At the top right
corner of the page, identify the category (from the above list) of the
topic of your paper.

NOTE: Abstracts sent via e-mail will not be accepted.


				




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