30.2, Calls: Arabic, Standard; Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Qatar

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Subject: 30.2, Calls: Arabic, Standard; Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Qatar

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Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:20:38
From: Vladimir Kulikov [vkulikov at qu.edu.qa]
Subject: Linguistics in the Gulf 6

Full Title: Linguistics in the Gulf 6 
Short Title: LGC-6 

Date: 01-Apr-2019 - 02-Apr-2019
Location: Doha, Qatar 
Contact Person: Vladimir Kulikov
Meeting Email: lingingulf at qu.edu.qa
Web Site: http://www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/departments/dell%E2%80%93home/linguistics%E2%80%93gulf%E2%80%93conf 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

After the success of the previous five conferences held in 2007-2015, the
Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University, is pleased
to announce its 6th Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC-6), to be held on
April 1-2, 2019. The conference is aimed at bringing together regional and
international researchers to share research ideas and results in formal
linguistics and sociolinguistics. 

Keynote speakers:

Robert Phillipson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Management, Society
and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is an author and
editor of books on linguistic imperialism, language rights, language policy,
and multilingual education. He will present a talk “Languages in public policy
and global English mythology”.

Jonathan Owens, Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the Bayreuth International
Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. His
research interests are in Arabic Linguistics, including spoken Arabic
(sociolinguistics, dialectology, codeswitching, discourse analysis), the
Arabic grammatical tradition, and history of Arabic. He will present a talk
“Multiple pathways: Descriptive and methodological issues in interpreting
Arabic language history”.

Final Call for Papers:

New extended deadline: 20 January, 2019

The Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Qatar University is
pleased to announce its 6th Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC-6) to be
held on April 1-2, 2019. It is aimed to bring together regional and
international researchers to share research ideas and results in formal
linguistics and sociolinguistics. LGC-6 invites abstracts that deal with any
aspect of language in the Gulf and more generally in the Arabic-speaking
world, including but not limited to the following areas:

- Bilingualism and diglossia
- Multilingualism
- Language contact, variation and change
- Language ideology, planning and policies
- Language and identity 
- Linguistic and semiotic landscapes
- Computer-mediated communication
- Discourse analysis of Arabic literary and non-literary texts
- Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics
- Language acquisition & learning 
- Educational linguistics
- Corpus and computational linguistics and data processing
- Neurolinguistics and bilingual language processing 
- Formal, social, and/or functional aspects of sign language(s)
- Translation and interpreting

Notes:

- Abstracts must be submitted online by January 20, 2019 through EasyAbs (Easy
Abstracts) at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/lingingulf6
- Abstracts should not exceed 400 words (not counting references) and not
indicate the name and/or the affiliation of the author(s).
- Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2019.
- Questions related to the conference can be addressed to lingingulf at qu.edu.qa

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