Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the Seventh Lancaster University International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and English Language (LAEL PG Conference) which will take place at Lancaster University’s Bailrigg Conference Centre, on Friday 13 July 2012.
We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any area of linguistics, theoretical or applied (see below for abstract submission guidelines) addressing the topic ‘Language in Context’.
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Submission deadline: 19 March 2012
Submission Guidelines for Abstracts
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words (title, keywords and references not included) and should be submitted via e-mail as attachments (Microsoft Word/PDF). Abstracts should not include the author's name or any other identifying information.
Please email your abstracts to lancspg2012@gmail.com. The subject line of the e-mail accompanying the abstract should contain the words "Abstract submission".
Your email submission must contain the following information:
- The title and the presentation type (oral or poster)
- The name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation(s)
- A brief author's biography
- The author's e-mail address and contact details
- Preferably, the main and secondary area of your research, from the list below:
- Cognitive linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
- Critical discourse analysis
- Historical linguistics
- Literacy
- Pragmatics/semantics
- Phonetics/phonology
- Second language teaching/learning/assessment
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntax/morphology
- Stylistics
- Translation studies
- Other: please specify