Call for papers: PG Conference on Current Issues in Sign Linguistics, Deafness, & Cognition, Sep 16th 2011, London

[Mark Mandel]

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From: Rosemary J Stamp <r.stamp at ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Subject: PG Conference on Current Issues in Sign Linguistics, Deafness, & Cognition, (CISLDC) Sep 16th 2011, London - call for papers
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The Deafness, Cognition and Language Centre (DCAL) and City University
London are proud to host the:

Postgraduate Conference on Current issues in Sign Language, Deafness and
Cognition (CISLDC), London, September 16th, 2011

Postgraduate students and postgraduate researchers are invited to present
work in progress on sign language linguistics, deafness and related
fields. This one-day conference aims to provide a forum to bring together
young researchers from a range of disciplines and disseminate their
findings. Multidisciplinary work is particularly encouraged.

Location:
University College London
Chandler House
Wakefield Street
WC1N 1PF

Date: September 16th, 2011.

Call for papers: Abstracts in English of up to 300 words on any topic
related to sign language linguistics are invited for 20-minute oral
presentations or poster display.

Submissions are welcome on the following areas:

a. Sign language and cognitive linguistics / psycholinguistics
b. Sign language documentation / corpus linguistics
c. Sign language discourse
d. Sign language pragmatics/semantics
e. Sign language phonology
f. Sign language acquisition, development/assessment
g. Sign language variation
h. Sign language syntax/morphology
i. Sign language and gesture
j. Bimodal bilingualism
k. Translation & interpreting studies
l. Sign language processing / neurolinguistics
m. Deafness and Literacy acquisition
n. Atypical sign language development

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Submissions must be emailed to
CISLDC11 at gmail.com by May 9th 2011.

To download the registration form and for other information about abstract
guidelines and submission is available on the conference webpage:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/cisldc2011/callpapers 

Conference Format The conference will include presentations of papers,
posters and plenary talks. The official languages of the conference are
English and British Sign Language (BSL).

Important dates:

Call for papers: 10th March 2011
Deadline for abstract submission: 9th May 2011
Notification of acceptance of abstract: June 15th 2011
Registration opening date: 10th April 2011
Early bird deadline for registration: 30th June 2011
Deadline for all registrations: 30th July 2011
Deadline for final presentations 1st September 2011

Early Bird Registration fee: £15
Registration fee: £20

We look forward to meeting you at the conference.

Organising Committee:
Rose Stamp
Gerardo Ortega
Guiping Xu
Dan Roberts
Zed Sevcikova
Zoe Shergold