LINGUIST List 7.157

Wed Jan 31 1996

Calls: Ling & Poetics, Frisian, Bilingualism

Editor for this issue: Annemarie Valdez <avaldezemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Maxim Stamenov, Linguistics and Poetics symposium
2. "R. F. Hahn", Frisian Congress
3. Gillian Cavagan, Conference

 Second Announcement and Call for Papers

 International Symposium "Linguistics and Poetics"
 (to honor Roman Jakobson)

 May 24-26, 1996, Sofia, BULGARIA

ORGANIZED BY: Academic Slavic Society, Sofia University,
Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the symposium will be to discuss some
of the most seminal contributions of Roman Jakobson to the
fields of linguistics and poetics. They include (but are not
limited to) an analysis of the relationships between
signirier/signified and structure/function in the
comprehension and production of different types of texts,
the hierarchies of language functions in written and oral
texts of different type, the strategies for selection and
combination of language units in the text, the aspects of
the poetics of morphology and syntax, etc., in the context
of the interdisciplinary investigations of text production,
comprehension, and interpretation at the end of the XXth
century.

INVITED SPEAKERS include:
Rosanna Benacchio (Italy)
Alexander Bondarko (Russia)
Catherine Chvany (USA)
Frantisek Danes (Czech Republic)
Karl Gutschmidt (Germany)
Boris Norman (Bialorussia)
Ricardo Picchio (Italy)
Catherine Rudin (USA)
Ludmila Uhlirova (Czech Republic)

LANGUAGES: all Slavic languages, English and German.

DEADLINE for submission of paper abstracts: February 29,
1996 .

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: The abstracts (in hard copy only)
of approx. 200 words, in four copies with the title and
author's name and affiliation, should be sent to the
organizers at the postal address given below by the deadline
of February 29, 1996. The notification of acceptance will
reach the authors of accepted papers not later than March
15, 1996.

FEES: The regular conference fee is 20 USD. The fee is
waived for the participants from the countries of Central
and Eastern Europe.

ACCOMODATION: Hotel accommodation (single room) is available
at 40 USD (breakfast included); double room - 25 USD per
person (breakfast included).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS:

Postal address: Iskra Likomanova, Institute for Bulgarian
Language, Shipchenski Prohod 52, bl. 17, Sofia 1113,
BULGARIA

E-mail: Maxim Stamenov at maxstambgearn.bitnet;

Fax: Lili Lashkova at 00359-2-463589 Sofia University.

Announcement and Call for Papers

The fourteenth Frisian Philological Congress will be held in Ljouwert/
Leeuwarden, the capital of the Dutch province of Fryslan/Friesland, on
the 23rd, 24th and 25th of October 1996. Lectures may deal with all
aspects of Frisian linguistics and philology, lexicography,
sociolinguistics, sociology of language, literature (and history in
relation to it).

The organising committee invites anyone interested to submit a plan
for a lecture in one of the above-mentioned fields. A lecture will
last 20 minutes, with a subsequent discussion of 10 minutes. A lecture
can be held in Frisian, Dutch, English, French or German. A conference
book(let), containing abstracts of the lectures and all further
relevant information, will be available towards the end of May. For
all kinds of information, please contact:

The Organising Committee of the fourteenth Frisian Philological
Congress,

Drs W. Visser (from April 1st onwards: Dr J. Ytsma),

Fryske Akademy,
P.O. Box 54,
8900 AB LJOUWERT/LEEUWARDEN,
The Netherlands.
Telephone: ..31-58-2131414;
Fax: ..31-58-2131409;
e-mail: fafa.knaw.nl

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON
BILINGUALISM

at

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

10-12 April 1997

fostering new interdisciplinary links

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Peter Auer (Hamburg)
Pieter Muysken (Amsterdam)
Michel Paradis (Montreal)
Shana Poplack (Ottawa)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions are invited, for oral or poster presentations, on any
aspect of bilingualism. Papers which are based on empirical research
and which seek to forge new links between established fields (e.g.
linguistics, sociology, psychology, neurology, education, speech &
language pathology) or to develop new sub-fields are particularly
welcome.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed, anonymously, by members of the
organising committee and selected on the grounds of originality,
clarity, significance of findings and conclusions, and contributions
to under-developed and/or new interdisciplinary areas of bilingualism.

The deadline for submissions is 30 September 1996. Notices of
acceptance will be sent out in November, together with full
conference programme, travel details and tourist information.

HOW TO SUBMIT
Each submission should include:

- a cover sheet containing (i) the author(s) name(s); (ii) address
(including telephone number, e-mail and fax, if available); (iii)
affiliation; (iv) the title of the presentation; (v) the category of
the submission (20 minutes oral presentation at parallel session or
poster presentation); and (vi) equipments required for presentation.

-Four camera-ready copies of a one-page abstract. Only hard-copies
are considered.

ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SENT TO:

Gillian Cavagan
for the Organising Committee, ISB
Department of Speech
King George VI Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU GB
Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7385
Fax: +44 (0)191 222 6518
E-Mail: Gillian.Cavagannewcastle.ac.uk

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Jim Ackers, Karen Corrigan, Barbara Dodd, Li Wei (Co-Chair), Nick
Miller (Co-Chair), Lesley Milroy, Philip Shaw, David Westgate.