Call: SEALS XIX, Ho Chi Minh City, 28-29 May, 2009

[Doug Cooper]

FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
(Deadline: 15 February 2009)

SEALS XIX
The 19th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
http://www.seals19.com/

28-29 May 2009
University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University -
Ho Chi Minh City - VIETNAM

The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society - SEALS - was founded at
Wayne State University (in Detroit, Michigan) in 1990.  SEALS holds
an annual conference in diverse locations in the United States, Australia,
Southeast Asia and other countries.  This time, SEALS XIX will be hosted
in Vietnam by the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies at the University of
Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University.

Abstracts are invited for papers on any topic related to the analysis of
Southeast Asian languages, such as descriptive, theoretical, or historical
linguistics, linguistic anthropology (ethnolinguistics, language attitudes
and ideology, discourse and conversational analysis, language and
gender, language and politics), language planning, literacy and
bilingual education.

Abstract submission deadline

Abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2009. Abstracts are
preferably written using a Unicode font and should consist of two or
three pages as follows:

Page 1
Author's name and Paper's title
Abstract body (maximum 400 words). Be as specific as possible,
with a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions.

Page 2
References (if any).
An author may submit one single and one joint abstract.  In case
of joint authorship, one author should be designated as the contact
person. Presentations are allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for
questions. All papers at SEALS are presented in English. Papers
presented at the meeting will be considered for publication in the
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

Submission

Abstracts can be submitted by one of the following ways:

--> By email, as email attachments in two formats, .PDF and .DOC, to
Dinh Lu Giang, at the following address: seals19 at vns.edu.vn.
Please indicate "Abstract for SEALS XIX" in the email subject heading.

--> By uploading an online submission at http://www.seals19.com/.

Notification of acceptance by 15 March 2008 (by email).

Organizing Committee:

Local Committee:

     * Nguyen Van Hue
     * Dinh Lu Giang

International committee:

     * Martha Ratliff
     * George Bedell
     * Brian Migliazza
     * Paul Sidwell
     * Doug Cooper
     * Mark Alves
     * Marc Brunelle


Sponsor:

Faculty of Vietnamese Studies
University of Social Sciences and Humanities -
Vietnam National University - HCM City
Phone: +848 8 225009
Fax: +848 8 229390

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