10.1037, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Science/Japan

Tue Jul 6 21:47:08 UTC 1999

LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1037. Tue Jul 6 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1037, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Science/Japan

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1)
Date:  Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:24:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:  "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject:  Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000

2)
Date:  Tue, 06 Jul 1999 15:16:32 +0900
From:  Koiti Hasida <hasida at etl.go.jp>
Subject:  ICCS/JCSS99

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

Date:  Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:24:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:  "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject:  Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL (UWE, Bristol)
CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES (CES), FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND EUROPEAN STUDIES (LES)
& SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES (ESS)

Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000
The Interface between Linguistics and Social Theory

27-29 April 2000
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000 is the thirteenth meeting of the Sociolinguistics
Symposium which meets once every two years. This conference
will focus primarily on the Interface between Linguistics
and Social Theory, and it is hoped the meeting will
contribute to further cooperation between the two
disciplines. The conference welcomes papers from a range of
different subject areas such as: language variation and
change, language and gender, language and the media,
discourse analysis, languages in contact, creole
linguistics, intercultural communication, language and
migration, language and education, language development,
critical linguistics, and other related topics.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Allan Bell (Auckland) : Bakhtin and a Dialogical
Theory of Language.
Professor Jack Chambers (Toronto): Leaders and laggers in the diffusion of changes
Professor David Corson (Toronto) Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social
Philosophy for Sociolinguistics
Professor Pieter Muysken (Leiden): Radical Modularity and the Possibility of
SocioLinguistics
Professor Shana Poplack (Ottawa): The Social Context of Linguistic Variation
(working title)
Professor Ruth Wodak (Vienna): Does Sociolinguistics need Social Theory?
New Perspectives in Critical Discourse Analysis

TITLES OF COLLOQUIA: the titles of 17 colloquia, as well as
a description and provisional lists of contributors are on
the website (see below).

Academic Committee
Professor Michael Scriven,UWE, Bristol; Professor Alison Assiter,UWE, Bristol;
Mr Felix Bihlmeier,UWE, Bristol; Dr Susan Price, UWE, Bristol; Dr Carmen Arnaiz, UWE, Bristol;
Mrs Kate Beeching, UWE, Bristol; Mr John Bird, UWE, Bristol;
Professor Jim Coleman, Portsmouth; Professor Nikolas
Coupland, Cardiff; Dr Aidan Coveney, Exeter; Dr Helmut
Daller, UWE, Bristol; Professor Roy Harris, Oxford; Dr
Stephen May, Bristol; Dr Tom Osbourne, Bristol; Dr Mark
Sebba, Lancaster; Dr Sali Tagliamonte,York; Dr Jeanine
Treffers-Daller,UWE, Bristol; Mr Jem Thomas,UWE, Bristol; Dr
Glyn Williams, Wales at Bangor.

DEADLINE

The deadline for submission of abstracts is: 1 September
1999.

Abstracts are welcomed for oral presentation (20 mins + 10 mins
discussion) or poster presentation. Please send 4 hard copies, one of
which contains your name and address, as well as an electronic version
(Rich Text Format) of the abstract to the address given below.  Please
send 4 hard copies, one of which contains your name and address, as
well as an electronic version (Rich Text Format) of the abstract to
the address given below.

REGISTRATION
Registration details are available from the
website. Registration forms can also be sent to you
directly if you send an email to SS2000 at uwe.ac.uk.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

More information about the conference programme, the venue and the
general organisation of the event can be found either on our website:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/research/sociling2000.html

or at our address/numbers below:

Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Centre for European Studies (CES)
Faculty of Languages and European Studies
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane
Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK
E-mail: ss2000 at uwe.ac.uk
Fax: ++44 117 976 2626

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Date:  Tue, 06 Jul 1999 15:16:32 +0900
From:  Koiti Hasida <hasida at etl.go.jp>
Subject:  ICCS/JCSS99

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      The Second International Conference on Cognitive Science
                                and
  The 16th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
                   Joint Conference (ICCS/JCSS99)

                          July 27-30, 1999.

  International Conference Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

                 http://www.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/ICCS99/

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