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ICAME 31: Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English
26-30 May 2010 Giessen

The conference topic is "Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English". Submissions related to the conference topic are particularly welcome, but of course, all abstracts in the field of English corpus linguistics are of interest to the ICAME conference in Giessen.

We are looking forward to your abstract submissions of a maximum of 400 words for

* full papers (20-minute presentation plus 10-minute discussion)
* work-in-progress reports (10-minute presentation + 5-minute discussion)
* software presentations (20-minute presentation plus 10-minute discussion)
* poster presentations

The deadline: December 1st 2009
Abstracts will be blind reviewed. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by January 15th 2010.
URL: http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/faculties/f05/engl/ling/icame2010/home/cfp

"Ideology, identity and interaction"
Lodz, Poland 13-15 September 2010

In line with previous CADAAD conferences, this conference aims to promote new directions in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome contributions from all areas of critically applied linguistics. We especially encourage papers which assess the state of the art and explore new methodologies in critical discourse research oriented toward the general theme of /ideology, identity and interaction/*. *Possible areas of analysis include but are by no means limited to the following:

- Identities in discourse
- Political communication
- Language in the news
- Language in the new media
- Discourse of advertising
- Institutional discourse
- Language and globalisation
- Business communication
- Scientific discourse
- Health communication
- Language and ecology

Abstracts of no more than 350 words (excluding references) should be sent by email as a Word attachment to discourse pri cadaad pika org by 15 January 2010.

Faculty of Law of the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli
Language of Law: Pulling Together Different Strands
Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta, Italy in June 2010

We invite colleagues to submit papers on theoretical and applied perspectives of language in a variety of areas of law (civil, criminal, administrative, European/international), in academic, professional and institutional contexts. Papers may address aspects of language and law, also from an interdisciplinary perspective, on any of the following broad theme areas:
- legal discourse and genre, including ethnographic or corpus-based analyses of legal discourse in the media
- power relations and ideology in the law
- cross-cultural legal communication
- pedagogy of legal language (LSP, ESP, EAP)
- legal translation and interpreting
- forensic linguistics
- plain language and the law
- other

Contributors are invited to send an anonymous abstract in MS Word (12pt) of not more than 300 words (excluding references) by no later than 15st December 2009 to the following address: languageoflaw pri unina2 pika it

Mapping language across cultures: Textual analysis in cross-cultural and intercultural communication (MLAC10)
University of Salamanca (Spain)
5-7 July 2010

Thematic strands
• Semantic networking in texts: network theory applications
• Meaningful patterns in text
• Automatic recognition of meaningful patterns in text
• Pragmalinguistic and constructional models
• Formal approaches to argumentation, narrative and ideology in texts
• Teaching and learning intercultural competence through text

Abstract deadline: 15 January 2010 (midnight local time)
URL: http://campus.usal.es/~tradotros/MLAC10/

"AT THE INTERSECTION OF SPECIALISED DISCOURSES: HETEROGENEITY AND UNITY"
31st GERAS conference, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, March 18th to 20th 2010

The topics covered by the 2010 GERAS Conference in Nice reflect the continuing focus of the scientific association’s research on the multiplicity and unity of English for Specific Purposes. The 2008 conference looked at the theme of distance/proximity in ESP. The 2009 conference raised issues about the stages leading from non-specialisation to specialisation. In 2010 it seems appropriate to move the focus towards the question of intersections between different ESP discourses.

15 December 2009: Deadline for submission
URL: http://www.unice.fr/geras2010/

Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS 2010)
27th July 2010 - 29th July 2010
Edge Hill University

Themes:
* Design and development of comparable and parallel corpora;
* Processing of multilingual corpora;
* Using corpora in translation studies and teaching;
* Using corpora in cross-linguistic contrast;
* Corpus-based comparative research of source native language, translated language and target native language;
* Corpus-based research of interface between contrastive and translation studies;
* Bilingual terminology, lexicology and lexicography.

The abstract submission deadline is 31st January 2010.
URL: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/events/2010/07/27/conference-using-corpora-in-contrastive-and-translation-studies-uccts-2010

Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication: Collaboration and Engagement
5 - 17 July 2010
Petaling Jaya Hilton Hotel, Selangor, Malaysia

Organizers:
Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya
Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association


Call for Papers
The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Professional Communication in the Asia-Pacific Rim and beyond to take part in a dialogue on research and collaboration in academic, professional and workplace contexts. To build a clearer understanding of communication in the workplace it is crucial to have effective collaboration between language experts and trainers and institutions specializing in communication skills. Such collaboration in turn is fundamental to the design and implementation of effective pedagogy, assessment and curricula.

** The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 31 December 2009.**

New Website: http://umconference.um.edu.my/aplspca2010

The 22nd European Systemic Functional Linguistics
COMPLEXITIES OF MEANING IN TEXT
Pedagoška Fakulteta Koper, 9-12.7.2010

We strongly encourage paper submissions to ESFLCW10 to address the theme of 'complexities of meaning in text' in one of the following ways.
∗ Systemic Functional Linguistic theory
∗ Appraisal theory
∗ Coherence and cohesion
∗ Genre and intertextuality
∗ Multimodal texts - multimodality
∗ Critical discourse analysis
∗ Human language production and/or understanding
∗ Computational linguistics
∗ The practical analysis of the clause, text, and/or
discourse.

We would also like to encourage submissions which link SFL with related linguistic theories where meaning also plays an important role (for example, other functional approaches, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc.). Papers focusing on other core concepts in SFL will also be accepted. Research on languages other than English is strongly encouraged. We also welcome submissions representing work in progress.

Deadline: 1.2.2010
URL: http://jt.upr.si/sflcw2010/

Teaching and Learning Corpora conferences - TALC 10
Masaryk University, in Brno, Czech Republic, July 1st to 3rd 2010

In addition to the usual applications of corpora to language education that TaLC concerns itself with, TaLC 2010 is emphasising the direct engagement of language teachers and learners with corpora.

The full list of topics for presentations, poster sessions, software demos, and workshops is available on the website: http://talc2010.muni.cz/

CENTRO DI RICERCA SUI LINGUAGGI SPECIALISTICI
UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI BERGAMO
PIAZZA ROSATE, 2 – 24129 BERGAMO – Tel. +39.035. 2052-738/721 – Fax +39.035.2052. 738//789

GENRE VARIATION IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION

Emerging Trends and Disciplinary Insights
An International Conference hosted by CERLIS
University of Bergamo, Italy
23-25 June 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
The aim of this conference is to bring together the latest research of scholars engaged in the analysis of
academic discourse from a genre-oriented perspective. Contributions representing different analytical
approaches and disciplinary areas are welcome, including synchronic as well as diachronic studies. For the
plenary lectures the following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation:
 Vijay K. Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong)
 Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki)
 John M. Swales (University of Michigan)
Abstracts and presentations, in English, should reflect at least one of the following conference themes:
 Methodological aspects of academic genre analysis
 Genre typology and taxonomy in academia
 Cross-cultural implications of genre use
 Hybridisation across and within research genres
 Unsolved issues in genre theory
 Genre and the ESL / EFL / ELF community
Colleagues planning to give a paper should submit a 300-word abstract of their proposal, specifying: the title
of their presentation and the conference theme, their full name and institutional affiliation, and a postal and
email address for correspondence.
Deadlines to remember :
Submission of abstracts No later than 31st October 2010
Notification of acceptance 30th November 2010
Early registration No later than 31st January 2011
Standard registration No later than 30th April 2011
Late registration No later than 10th June 2011
Information on the venue, registration, hotels and social activities can be found on the conference website at
www.unibg.it/cerlis2011

EAP in university settings: teacher and learner competencies

18th & 19th June, 2010
Bilkent University School of English Language
Faculty Academic English Program,
Bilkent University, Ankara

Over recent years increasing numbers of people worldwide use English for academic purposes, for teaching, learning and research. There is, thus, a clear need for an EAP conference focusing on tertiary level learning and instruction. The fact that EAP now deserves a setting all of its own, separate and distinct from ESP, has been raised in previous ESP SIG events and the annual IATEFL meeting in Cardiff this year.

This conference aims to explore the nature and challenges of EAP instruction at tertiary level, the role of EAP instructors and learners, and the instructor competencies required to equip learners for effective academic study beyond the EAP classroom.

It will bring together EAP practitioners and researchers from different international contexts to share perspectives, approaches and developments in EAP.

The event will also be supported by the British Association of Lecturers of English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP) and will use the Competency Framework for Teachers of English for Academic Purposes (2008), published by BALEAP, as a springboard for reflection on these issues.

Further details about the event can be found on the IATEFL SIG EVENTS website http://www.iatefl.org/events/sig-events and on
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~eapconf2010/index.html.

Mark Krzanowski
IATEFL ESP SIG Coordinator
Aysen Guven
IATEFL ESP SIG Representative for Turkey

2nd PRISEAL Conference
Occupying niches: Interculturality, cross-culturality, and aculturality in academic research
Institute of English. University of Silesia. Sosnowiec/Katowice, Poland
9-11 June 2011

Call for papers
While the leading theme of PRISEAL 1 was "peripherality" as opposed to "the mainstream", we wish to look at the activity of the academic discourse community in terms of niches occupied by users of English as an Additional Language. How much of what is done in the niche gets outside? Is what is done in the niche what gets outside? To what extent is English a distorting mirror of the original ideas? Are these niches isolated linguistic and cultural cavities or are they connected by channels of English, or perhaps Englishes, and other languages? What part of one's culture/language is gained or lost in the process of publishing in English? With our leading theme set at Occupying niches: Interculturality, cross-culturality and aculturality in academic research, we hope to sparkle a vivid discussion on what is culture-bound, culture-free and cultured in the academic community and its practices.

Within the bounds of this perspective we invite proposals from the areas of applied linguistics, discourse analysis, translation and interpreting, and cultural studies. Aiming at a better understanding of the complex situation of users of English as an Additional Language we invite submissions from journal publishers, editors and referees, authors' editors and translators, conference interpreters, ERPP teachers, materials writers and course designers, and applied linguists.

Main sections proposed:
- Spoken and written discourse analysis
- Research genres
- Translation and interpreting

Send submissions (300-word abstract) by 15 November 2010
URL: http://ija.us.edu.pl/sub/prisealweb/page4.html