21.4026, Calls: General Linguistics/Qatar

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Subject: 21.4026, Calls: General Linguistics/Qatar

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Date: 11-Oct-2010
From: Kimary Shahin < shahin at qu.edu.qa >
Subject: Linguistics in the Gulf 3
 

	
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:39:08
From: Kimary Shahin [shahin at qu.edu.qa]
Subject: Linguistics in the Gulf 3

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Full Title: Linguistics in the Gulf 3 

Date: 06-Mar-2011 - 07-Mar-2011
Location: Doha, Qatar 
Contact Person: Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Meeting Email: malghadeer at qu.edu.qa
Web Site: 
http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/english/lingconference/third/index.php 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2010 

Meeting Description:

The Linguistics in the Gulf - 3 Conference aims to achieve the following 
objectives:
-Provide a common platform for scholars who are engaged in linguistic 
research in the region
-Promote the study of language in the region
-Emphasize the importance of linguistic research and of linguistics as a 
scientific field
-Address new problematics facing researchers in the linguistics of the 
region while contextualizing the discussion within broader historical and 
theoretical perspectives
-Bring researchers from the region and abroad to a productive exchange of 
ideas, debates and reflections on current and future developments in the 
science of language and in their respective areas of interest and 
scholarship. 

Call for Papers

We invite contributions in any area of research on the language scene in 
the Gulf region including, but not limited to:

1.Formal aspects of the Gulf spoken dialects (phonology, morphology, 
syntax, semantics) 
2.Contact of the native Arabic dialects with other languages in the region
3.Linguistic variation Linguistic change Standardization and linguistic 
leveling language planning and language policies 
4.Linguistic attitudes relation to Standard Arabic Language and the mass 
media
5.Discourse analysis of Arabic literary and non-literary texts
6.Second language acquisition in the Gulf. 
7.Forensic linguistics in Arabic context
8.Computational linguistics and Arabic data processing
9.Neurolinguistics and bilingual language processing

The conference will also host two prominent keynote speakers. There will 
be a special session on new trends in linguistics which will not be limited to 
Arabic.

After the first two successful rounds of this conference, held in 2007 and 
2009, this third event aims to bring together more researchers and experts 
investigating a wide range of topics related to the study of language in the 
Gulf region.

Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts (of 400 words max) should be submitted electronically as an 
attachment (in rich text format, or pdf (especially if especial characters are 
used). Please send your abstract to the chair of the Conference Organizing 
Committee: Dr. Moneera Al-Ghadeer: malghadeer at qu.edu.qa

Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2010 Receipt of abstracts will be 
acknowledged as soon as possible. Notification of acceptance will be sent 
by the beginning of January 2011.





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