22.3843, Calls: Modified: English, Socioling, Discourse Analysis, Applied Ling/UK

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Date: 03-Oct-2011
From: Andrew Linn [a.r.linn at shef.ac.uk]
Subject: English Language in Europe: Debates and Discourses


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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:04:47
From: Andrew Linn [a.r.linn at shef.ac.uk]
Subject: English Language in Europe: Debates and Discourses

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Full Title: English Language in Europe: Debates and Discourses 
Short Title: EiE 

Date: 20-Apr-2012 - 22-Apr-2012
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Andrew Linn
Meeting Email: a.r.linn at shef.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.englishineurope.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2011 

Meeting Description:

This is the first conference in a series of five hosted by the Leverhulme international network project, English in Europe: Opportunity or Threat? The aim of this opening conference is to gain a comparative understanding of the debates surrounding the role and status of English in Europe today.  

This conference will set the agenda for the subsequent conferences of the project, and a selection of the papers will be published as a journal special issue. Keynote speakers include David Block (Institute of Education) and Sue Wright (University of Portsmouth). 

Call for Papers: 

Proposals are now sought for papers of 30 minutes in length, or for posters, on any of the following or related topics: 

The teaching of English 
Language policy and language management (including language education policy) 
Language attitudes 
Media discourses on English 
Discourses of English as a lingua franca and global language 
English and globalisation 
English language hegemony and language diversity 
English and language rights 
Comparison with other areas of the world 

Proposals should include the title of the paper/poster, the name and contact details of the author(s) and an abstract of less than 500 words. They should be sent to a.r.linn at shef.ac.uk no later than 9 December 2011, and you will be informed of the outcome by mid-January 2012. The final date for booking a place on the conference is 10 February 2012.





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