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This looks like an excellent training opportunity for postgrads: please forward this to any who might be interested. Aidan --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:32:14 +0100 From: Patrick Honeybone <[log in to unmask]> Subject: NWCL Postgraduate Training Workshop (UK) Sender: Majordomo List Server <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: Patrick Honeybone <[log in to unmask]> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> NWCL Postgraduate Training Workshop First call for registration The North-West Centre for Linguistics is happy to announce its third annual Postgraduate Research Training Workshop. The title of the two-day workshop is 'Researching talk: principles, practice and problems in the collection and analysis of spoken language data'. It will be held on 1st-2nd November 2001 at Edge Hill College, which is just north of Liverpool, England. The workshop is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is organised in co-operation with LOT (the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics). This funding means that registration for the workshop, accommodation and food for up to 40 participants will be free; details of the funding are given below. The workshop will offer postgraduate researchers the chance to meet with other postgraduates working in similar areas and also with nationally and internationally renowned specialists who work on several different aspects of the study of spoken language and in a range of social settings. The focus of the workshop will be on the processes of collection and analysis of spoken language data, and the activities are intended to be of benefit to postgraduate research students in the planning, conduct and evaluation of their projects. Invited speakers include: Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool), Marilyn Martin-Jones (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Mark Sebba (University of Lancaster), Dominic Watt/Paul Foulkes (University of York), Ann Williams (Goldsmiths, University of London). Speakers will address methodological issues in the gathering and interpretation of such data and the resolution of problems which can confront researchers. Topics will include techniques for the transcribing of spoken language, ethnographic approaches to language research, the interpretation of bilingual data, the analysis of conversation, phonetic approaches to language research, working with children as informants, and elicitation techniques in language variation research. Postgraduate participants will be invited to present their own research in the form of a poster and a session will be set aside for discussion of these. The NWCL book-token prize will be awarded to the presenter of the best poster, as judged by the invited speakers. 40 ESRC-funded places are available to PhD students at a UK university who are in the second, third or fourth year of their PhD study (as of November 2001). The places will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis, so early registration is encouraged. The funding does not cover travel to and from the workshop, and we advise participants to apply to their home institution for such costs. LOT has agreed to contribute towards the costs of participants from LOT institutions - please contact the workshop organisers directly for further details. Accommodation will be in a hotel in Liverpool city centre and transport will be provided from the hotel to the workshop venue. The final deadline for registration is Friday 5th October, and registration will be possible until all the places are taken. The organisers are Jo Arthur and Patrick Honeybone. Feel free to contact us if you have any queries. Send emails to both of us, please: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] To register, send an email to [log in to unmask] with your: NAME EMAIL AND POSTAL ADDRESSES INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION WORKING TITLE OF YOUR PHD PROJECT YEAR OF STUDY (2ND, 3RD ETC.) A second call for participation will follow in due course and further details of the arrangements and programme will be sent out to those who register. They will also be available on the NWCL's website, at www.art.man.ac.uk/linguist/reswork.htm. --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- Aidan Coveney University of Exeter