20.3444, Calls: General Ling, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis/USA

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Subject: 20.3444, Calls: General Ling, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis/USA

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Date: 12-Oct-2009
From: Cala Zubair < caz6 at georgetown.edu >
Subject: Georgetown University Round Table 2010
 

	
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:33:58
From: Cala Zubair [caz6 at georgetown.edu]
Subject: Georgetown University Round Table 2010

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Full Title: Georgetown University Round Table 2010 
Short Title: GURT 2010 

Date: 12-Mar-2010 - 14-Mar-2010
Location: Washington, D.C., USA 
Contact Person: Cala Zubair
Meeting Email: caz6 at georgetown.edu
Web Site: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse
Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2009 

Meeting Description:

The theme of Georgetown University Round Table 2010 centers on the Arabic
language. Arabic is one of the official languages of the United Nations, spoken
by more than half a billion people around the world, and is of increasing
importance in political and economic spheres. 

The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: Earliest
grammatical accounts date from the 8th century, and included full syntactic,
morphological and phonological analyses of the vernaculars and of Classical and
Modern Standard Arabic -- the religious language of the Quran and the language
of poetry. In recent years the academic study of Arabic has become increasingly
sophisticated and broad. 

GURT 2010 seeks to explore the Arabic language from a variety of perspectives
including research from the following linguistic subfields: Syntax, Semantics,
Morphology, Phonology and Phonetics, Computational linguistics, Historical
linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropological linguistics. 

2nd Call for Papers

This is the second call for papers for Georgetown University Round Table (GURT)
on Linguistics 2010.  GURT 2010 seeks to explore the Arabic language from a
variety of perspectives including research from the following linguistic
subfields: Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Phonology and Phonetics, Computational
linguistics, Historical linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropological linguistics.

The organizers of GURT 2010 are pleased to welcome the following keynote speakers:
"Hybridity and the Crossing of Linguistic Borders"
- Mushira Eid, The University of Utah
"Statistical and Symbolic Paradigms in Arabic Linguistics"
- Ali Farghaly, Monterey Institute of International Studies
"Can Arabic Sociolinguistics develop without Arabic Dialectology?: The Case of
Urban Sociolinguistics"
- Catherine Miller, French Council of Research (CNRS)
"Critical Languages and Critical Thinking: Re-framing Academic Arabic Programs"
- Karin Ryding, Georgetown University
"Ideology, Grammar Making, and the Standardization of Arabic"
- Yasir Suleiman, The University of Cambridge

In addition, we will host the following pre-conference workshops:

Arabic Language Teaching: 
Raghda El-Essawi, The American University of Cairo

Arabic Computational Linguistics: 
Nizar Habish and Mona Diab, Columbia University 

Arabic Language Policies and Planning: 
Keith Walters, The University of Texas at Austin

For more information please visit: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2010





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