Conf: 8th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

[Alexis Nasr]

8th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 20-24, 2003

FINAL ABSTRACT

More important aspects:

- Participation of 168 foreigners specialist for 26
countries: Belgium (6), Bolivia (1), Brasil (24), Canada
(5), Chile (2), China (2), Colombia (1), Spain (25),
USA (27), France (26), Holland (3), UK (6), Ireland (3),
Italy (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mexico (13), Norway
(1), Portugal (4), Puerto Rico (1), Check Republic (1),
Russia (1), Sweden (4), Switzerland (1), Uruguay (2),
Venezuela (2))

- Participation of 135 Cuban specialist  from 10 provinces

- Publication of the Proceedings with 282 papers from all
participants (1341 pages in two volumes). ACTAS-I (1-642
pages), ISBN 959-7174-01-4 and ACTAS II (643-1341 pages),
ISBN 959-7174-02-2.

- The Congress had two Pre-Symposium Seminars:

     . Construcción de Diccionarios Electrónicos.
       Dr. Xabier Arregi Iparragirre
       University of Basque Country
       Spain

    . Técnicas para la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés.
       Dra. Holly Wilson
       Alliant International University
       USA

- Dr. Gisela Cardenas Molina, President of
Cuban Linguistics Association opened the
Symposium with the talk: "Corrientes en el
análisis del discurso".

- The Symposium had the following magistral talks

    . On the Ownership of Text.
       Prof. Dr. Yorick Wilks
       Department of Computer Science
       Sheffield University
       United Kingdom

    . Some challenges for a grammar of spoken
       language.
       Prof. Dr. Jens Allwood
       Linguistics Department
       University of Gothenburg
       Sweden:

- The book  "Contribuciones a la Lingüística Aplicada en
América Latina", printed in the UNAM, México, was
presented in the Symposium.

The 9th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL
COMMUNICATION will be held in Santiago de Cuba,
January 2005.


Center of Applied Linguistics
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba




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