24.1142, Calls: English, Applied Ling, Socioling, Discourse Analysis, Historical Ling/Greece

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Subject: 24.1142, Calls: English, Applied Ling, Socioling, Discourse Analysis, Historical Ling/Greece

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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:31:39
From: Chryso Hadjidemetriou [c.hadjidemetriou at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Responses to the Lingua Franca Role of English

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Full Title: Responses to the Lingua Franca Role of English 

Date: 23-Nov-2013 - 24-Nov-2013
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece 
Contact Person: Chryso Hadjidemetriou
Meeting Email: englishineurope at sheffield.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.englishineurope.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/Conference%20in%20Thessaloniki/ 

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

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2013 

Meeting Description:

Responses to the Lingua Franca Role of English
23 November - 24 November 2013
Thessaloniki, Greece

Organised by the South-East European Research Centre 

The aim of the fourth conference in the ‘English in Europe: Opportunity or Threat?’ project is to gain a comparative understanding of the debates surrounding the role of English as a lingua franca throughout Europe but with a particular focus on South East Europe and the Balkan region. We invite participants who are located both within the Balkan region and in other countries who are involved in research on ELF in the context of Europe for a series of sessions.

We are extremely proud to confirm that the following keynote speakers will be speaking at the conference:

Professor Cem Alptekin (Boğaziçi University)
Professor Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna)
Dr Nicos Sifakis (Hellenic Open University)

Call for Papers:

Topics will include, but not be limited to:

- Language attitudes
- Language identity
- English in the media
- Discourses of English as a lingua franca
- ELF in education
- Language contact, language variation and language loss
- English language hegemony and language diversity

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts related to any of the topics listed above or to the overall theme of the conference should be sent to the conference email address: eie-organiser at seerc.org by the 1 June 2013. Abstracts should be anonymous, include the title of the paper and up to 500 words maximum in length. You may include an indicative references list of the key sources consulted. Please include your name (including academic title if relevant), affiliation and contact details in the body of the email. If you have any questions relating to the submission of your abstract, please email the conference organizer at eie-organiser at seerc.org or thessalonikieie at gmail.com.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: 1 June 2013
Notification of acceptance/registration opens: 15 June 2013 
Deadline for registration: 15 July 2013
Conference: 23-24 November 2013







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