16.3271, Calls: General Ling/Lithuania;General Ling/Japan

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-3271. Sun Nov 13 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.3271, Calls: General Ling/Lithuania;General Ling/Japan

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1)
Date: 11-Nov-2005
From: Ruta Jankauskiene < ruta.veteryte at ktu.lt >
Subject: Language, Culture and Technologies 

2)
Date: 11-Nov-2005
From: Hiroko Kasuya < kasuyahi at rondo.plala.or >
Subject: Eighth Annual International Conference, JSLS2006 

	
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:36:46
From: Ruta Jankauskiene < ruta.veteryte at ktu.lt >
Subject: Language, Culture and Technologies 
 


Full Title: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGIES 

Date: 19-May-2006 - 21-May-2006
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania 
Contact Person: Ruta Jankauskiene
Meeting Email: ruta.veteryte at ktu.lt
Web Site: http://www.ktu.lt/en/conf2006.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): None ()

Call Deadline: 25-Jan-2006 

Meeting Description:

KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Faculty of Humanities

4th International Conference 

We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate and to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

For effective communication across cultures one needs not only linguistic competence, but also social communicative skills and intercultural awareness. Language education could play a crucial role in stimulating a better understanding and mutual respect between different cultures. It is very important to develop communicative and intercultural competence necessary to participate fully in our modern societies.

The objective of the conference is to provide an international forum for researchers from around the world to exchange practices as well as to stimulate the implementation of innovative approaches into the studies of modern languages and culture.

The conference is expected to result in a broadening of the knowledge base of international Digital Technologies development, to foster the formation of professional networks among participants. 

The conference will include a number of plenary, paper presentation sessions and round table discussions.

THE LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE: English, German, French, Russian and Lithuanian

SUGGESTED TOPICS are recommended, but not limited to the following areas:

- Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Problems of Translation and Intercultural Communication
- Language and Technologies
- Culture in the Context of Globalization and Glocalization
- Means of Intercultural Communication: Music, Language, Arts and Technologies


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:36:51
From: Hiroko Kasuya < kasuyahi at rondo.plala.or >
Subject: Eighth Annual International Conference, JSLS2006 

	

Full Title: Eighth Annual International Conference,  JSLS2006 
Short Title: JSLS2006 

Date: 10-Jun-2006 - 11-Jun-2006
Location: Tokyo, Japan, Japan 
Contact Person: Kei Nakamura
Meeting Email: kei at aya.yale.edu
Web Site: http://www.cyber.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/JSLS/JSLS2006 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)
                     English (eng)

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2006 

Meeting Description:

The Japanese Society for Language Sciences invites proposals for our Eighth Annual International Conference, JSLS 2006. JSLS2006 will be co-sponsored with the Institute of Educational Research and Service (IERS) at the International Christian University (ICU). We welcome three categories of proposals: (1) symposium (themed panel), (2) paper (oral presentation), and (3) poster. Our plenary speaker will be Dr. Fred Genesee (McGill University). 

We would like to encourage submissions on research pertaining to language sciences, including linguistics, psychology, education, computer science, brain science, and philosophy, among others. We will not commit ourselves to one or a few particular theoretical frameworks. We will respect any scientific endeavor that aims to contribute to a better understanding of the human mind and the brain through language.
 



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