24.1336, Calls: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling, General Ling/UK

Tue Mar 19 14:19:48 UTC 2013

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Subject: 24.1336, Calls: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling, General Ling/UK

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:18:46
From: Karolina Placzynta [NWALconference at gmail.com]
Subject: North West Applied Linguistics MA Conference

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Full Title: North West Applied Linguistics MA Conference 
Short Title: NWAL Conference 

Date: 06-Jun-2013 - 06-Jun-2013
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Karolina Placzynta
Meeting Email: karolina.placzynta at stu.mmu.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.facebook.com/NWALconference 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Apr-2013 

Meeting Description:

North West Applied Linguistics MA Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University
Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Information and Communications and the MA in Applied Linguistics at MMU
6 June 2013

Manchester Metropolitan University is hosting a Masters conference on 6 June. The first ever NWAL Conference aims to provide current MA students from the North West of England with an environment to present their research in the area of Applied Linguistics.

We are pleased to announce Dr Derek Bousfield and Dr Rob Drummond as keynote speakers.

The registration fee is £5. For registration details and more information, please visit our websites:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nwalconference2013
https://www.facebook.com/NWALconference
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/nwalconference (under construction)
https://twitter.com/NWLIngConf

or email us at:

NWALconference at gmail.com

Call for Papers:

We invite MA students to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations on topics related to any of the following areas of interest:

Accents, dialects and varieties of English		
Bilingualism and multilingualism		
Community languages				       
Corpus linguistics				               
Critical Discourse Analysis			               
Intercultural communication
Language and gender
Language and identity
Language education
Language variation and change
Morphology
Phonetics
Phonology
Pragmatics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Sociophonetics
Syntax

The oral presentations should be 20 minutes in length, plus 10 minutes for comments and questions. 

The abstracts should be 400 words and should be submitted in .doc or .pdf format. They should include the title, the main focus of the paper, methodology, general findings and key references.

To submit your entry, please follow the link http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nwalconference2013, which will guide you through the submission process. You will be asked to provide a title and authors, and to choose the type of presentation (oral/poster) and area of interest.

The event is organised by students, for students, however the abstracts will be reviewed by an academic panel.

Important Dates:

19 April: Deadline for the submission of abstracts and posters
6 May: Speakers confirmed
13 May: Deadline for registration
6 June: The day of the conference

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