To AFLS members (with apologies for cross-postings):
Herewith information about a forthcoming linguistics conference at the
University of Kent. Please feel free to contact me or Dr. John Partridge
for further details.
David Hornsby
Interfaces in Language:
An international linguistics conference
University of Kent, Canterbury
April 23-25, 2007
Rationale
As in many other disciplines, within language studies we are constantly
confronted with boundaries and interfaces: for example between languages,
between language communities established on linguistic or socio-political
criteria, between dialect areas, between differing theories of language and
between various aspects and components of linguistic study. Lines have been
drawn compartmentalising various elements of linguistics at both macro- and
micro-levels, only for their validity to be challenged in later work Papers
from three continents accepted for this conference cover a wide range of
issues subsumed under three foci: Contact and Conflict, Categories and
Orthodoxies, and Language and Cognition. The conference will examine
specific occurrences of such interfaces, great or small assess their
significance, determine whether and where boundaries can and need to be
drawn or grey areas recognised and map out further areas of investigation.
Keynote speakers
* Marc van Oostendorp, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam
* Felicity Rash, Queen Mary University London
* Ken Turner, Brighton University
The full programme will be published shortly: late submissions will also be
considered.
The proceedings of the conference are to be published in a volume
provisionally entitled Interfaces edited by the conference organisers, to
include the best papers under each of the three headings above, together
with a fourth section focusing on issues raised in the general discussion
which. will conclude the conference
For details and booking forms please contact Dr John Partridge
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http:// www.kent.ac.uk/secl/
