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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
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
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/