30.2139, Confs: English; Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 30.2139, Confs: English; Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 23:50:47
From: Valentin Werner [valentin.werner at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English

 
8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English 
Short Title: BICLCE2019 

Date: 26-Sep-2019 - 28-Sep-2019 
Location: University of Bamberg, Germany 
Contact: Katharina Scheiner 
Contact Email: biclce2019.eng-ling at uni-bamberg.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/eng-ling/biclce-2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to announce that the 8th Biennial International Conference on
the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) will be held from 26 to 28
September 2019 at the University of Bamberg (Germany). The plenaries are:

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University): The UK, Europe and the path to Brexit -
the long view: Europe in two centuries of British newspapers
Anne O’Keeffe (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick): Using corpus linguistics to
profile learner English
Carita Paradis (Lund University): The new London-Lund Corpus (LLC-2): A window
into natural speech in the 21st century
Javier Pérez-Guerra and Elena Seoane (University of Vigo): Comparative
variation in World Englishes: New, (more) newer determinants?
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Catholic University of Leuven): Exploring probabilistic
grammar(s) in varieties of English

The aim of the BICLCE conference is to encourage communication and academic
cross-fertilization between researchers working on all aspects of contemporary
English and using different theoretical and methodological frameworks.
Previous conferences were held in Edinburgh (2005), Toulouse (2007), London
(2009), Osnabrück (2011), Austin TX (2013), Madison WI (2015) and Vigo (2017),
along the same lines. We aim for the conference in Bamberg to build on the
success of its predecessors. 

BICLCE2019 provides a platform for work on contemporary varieties of English
from various perspectives. Research papers and workshops may address topics in
syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, semantics and pragmatics, discourse
analysis, cognitive linguistics, as well as phonetics and phonology. Purely
historical work is less suitable at this conference, but papers that draw upon
diachronic evidence to support studies of present-day English are very
welcome.
 

Program:

(i) Thematic workshops:

- Language and space in megacities: Developing an agenda for comparative
research
- Challenges of computer-mediated communication data: #obstacles
#opportunities
- New approaches to variation in present-day Scottish Englishes
- New horizons in cohesion studies: Widening the angle
- New Englishes, new methods 

(for detailed descriptions see
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/biclce-2019/workshops/)

(ii) General programme: see
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/biclce-2019/conference-programme/ for a
list of accepted abstracts

(iii) Plenary talks:

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Anne O'Keeffe (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
Cara Paradis (Lund University)
Javier Pérez-Guerra & Elena Seoane (University of Vigo)
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Catholic Univesity of Leuven)

Special Sessions

To take account of (meta-)methodological aspects, the conference will also
feature 
(i) a pre-conference workshop titled ''The replication crisis in science:
Challenges and chances for linguistics''
(https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/biclce-2019/workshops/pre-conference-work
shop-the-replication-crisis-in-science-challenges-and-chances-for-linguistics/
) and 
(ii) a special series of talks focusing on ''How to (:) Open Linguistics''
(https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/anglistik/chair-of-english-linguistics/biclce-2
019/conference-programme/talk-series-how-to-open-linguistics/), both convened
by Lukas Sönning (University of Bamberg).

Note that the early bird registration period for this event ends 31 May
(https://www.uni-bamberg.de/eng-ling/biclce-2019/conference-registration/).





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