27.3918, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 27.3918, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:53:44
From: Stacey Jacobson [smjacobson at ua.edu]
Subject: University of Alabama Languages Conference

 
Full Title: University of Alabama Languages Conference 
Short Title: UALC 

Date: 17-Feb-2017 - 18-Feb-2017
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL, USA 
Contact Person: Stacey Jacobson
Meeting Email: ualanguagesconference at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

The graduate students of The University of Alabama’s Department of Modern
Languages & Classics, in collaboration with the graduate students of the
Department of Education, the Department of English, and TESOL program, invite
papers for our seventh annual University of Alabama Languages Conference
entitled “Exchanging Ideas and Experiences Through Language” to be held
February 17-18, 2017, at Hotel Capstone and The Ferguson Center of The
University of Alabama.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Bill VanPatten (Linguistics)
Dr. Rúben Gallo (Literature)


2nd Call for Papers:

Proposals about all languages are welcome in, but are not limited to, the
following topic strands: 

- Sociolinguistics 
- L1, L2, L3 acquisition and pedagogy
- Languages in contact
- Historical and comparative linguistics
- Non-verbal communication; sign language
- Language as presented in literature, film and music 
- Voices in literature
- Feminism, gender identity
- Alterity
- Storytelling, mythology, memory

Proposals are invited for individual papers or presentations of 20 minutes in
length. Please email abstracts in English of up to 500 words as a Microsoft
Word document attachment to ualanguagesconference at gmail.com.

Please include the following information for each presenter:

- Name, affiliation, and email address
- Title of presentation
- Multimedia requests, if any

Suggestions for panels of three or four presenters are especially encouraged.
Along with a description of the panel proposed, please submit one panel
proposal accompanied by individual abstracts for all presenters and provide
the professional information requested above for each member. 

The deadline for proposal submission is October 31, 2016.




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