26.1471, Calls: Sino-Tibetan; Applied Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 26.1471, Calls: Sino-Tibetan; Applied Linguistics/UK

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:02:40
From: Dongyan Chen [d.chen5 at ncl.ac.uk]
Subject: International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

 
Full Title: International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 
Short Title: ISOCTAL 

Date: 10-Dec-2015 - 12-Dec-2015
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Dongyan Chen
Meeting Email: isoctal at ncl.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/news/events/item/international-symposium-on-chinese-theoretical-and-applied-linguistics-isoctal 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan 

Call Deadline: 25-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS), Newcastle 
University is pleased to announce that is to host the International Symposium on Chinese 
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL) on 10th - 12th December, 2015 at Research 
Beehive, Newcastle University,UK.

The Symposium aims to promote worldwide collaboration on Chinese theoretical and 
applied linguistics by giving researchers an opportunity to share their work. Confirmed 
speakers for the conference are:

Professor James C.-T. Huang from Harvard University
Dr Boping Yuan from Cambridge University
Professor Martha Young-Scholten from Newcastle University
Dr Clare Wright from Reading University
Professor Xinsheng Zhang from Richmond University
Professor Yi Xu from University College London

Call for Papers:

Presentations are invited on topics including but not limited to the following aspects of the 
Chinese language – understood broadly as Sinitic languages (e.g. Mandarin, Cantonese 
and all regional varieties): 

Syntax 
Morphology 
Phonetics and phonology 
Semantics 
Language variation and sociolinguistic studies
Diachronic change 
Language contact 
Typology and comparative studies 
Child language acquisition 
Second language acquisition and teaching 
Applications of translation and code-switching to pedagogy

Talks will be 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for discussion and questions. Poster 
presentations are also welcome (if you wish to present a poster rather than an oral 
presentation, you must specify this on the abstract).

Two copies of the abstract should be submitted: one anonymous and one named 
(maximum of 450 words, not including references). The named version should contain the 
author's name, affiliation and email. Abstracts should use 12pt Times New Roman font 
and be single-spaced.

Abstracts must be written in English, with examples fully glossed (particularly if containing 
Chinese characters) and provide 2-4 keywords indicating the general topic (e.g. syntax, 
Chinese language teaching).

The conference will include a WiP Forum (Work in Progress Forum), where issues 
pertaining to the study of Chinese linguistics will be discussed. For this, we welcome 
submissions (length: 450 words) introducing issues/challenges encountered by current 
PhD students in their studies. Accepted submissions will be the subject of open 
discussion at the Forum, which aims to provide quality input to aspects of ongoing 
projects. This discussion will be chaired by our keynote speakers and experts in Newcastle 
University.

The file name of the abstract should be the first four words of the title, followed by ANON 
for the anonymous version and NAMED for the version that includes author details. 
Abstracts must be submitted electronically in both WORD and pdf format to 
isoctal at ncl.ac.uk. The deadline for the submission of all abstracts is 25 May, 2015. 
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 25 June, 2015.

If you have any further inquiries, please contact Dongyan Chen at isoctal at ncl.ac.uk.




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