Oct 28
eldonappraisal conferences, Halliday
it’s on again! in 2013, our very successful and FREE symposium, convened to discuss all matters appraisal-related, was held at UNSW, Sydney in late February..
..to roars of applause.
next year, 2015, we hope to reprise that success with even further debate and discussion.
please visit our dedicated website for further information.
and while you’re thinking of attending, what about coming along to the Halliday Symposium, to be held on the day before the Appraisal Symposium. this will be at Sydney University, and will cost a miniscule $40. For more details see the website and register to attend.
Mar 24
eldonannouncements asfla, conferences
The conveners of the 2014 Australian Functional Linguistics Association annual conference have published their flyer for the upcoming conference.
Check it out and download a PDF version to print out and attach to your corridor wall!
Oct 10
eldonannouncements conferences
Information on ASFLA’s conference next year in Melbourne, hosted by the Australian Catholic University, can be found on its own page on this site. you can navigate to it from here by clicking on this link, or you may also download a short brochure on the conference in Word doc format here.
There is also a link to the page in the blogroll, waaay down in the “Conferences” blogroll, at the bottom right of the page after you scroll and scroll…
Jan 04
eldonannouncements conferences
[see also the sidebar links to conferences]
just posting the whole CFP here – looks as if it would be a great opportunity for scholars and students alike – i’m looking at the fact that it is not so expensive for a start.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERARY
STUDIES (9TH-10TH MARCH, 2012)
http://www.hrmmv.org/events.html
ORGANIZED BY:
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, HANS RAJ MAHILA MAHA VIDYALAYA
JALANDHAR
PUNJAB, INDIA.
INTRODUCTION
Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya ( Affiliated to GNDU, Amritsar) , is a premier
institution of North India, committed to the cause of women education since
1927. The college has been granted the status of a College with Potential for
Excellence by the UGC, and A+ grade by NAAC. The college is imparting education
to more than 5000 students in various faculties. The Post Graduate Department
of English announces the first International Conference on English Language and
Literary Studies.
The conference aims to promote English Language and literary studies in this era
of globalization. English language is the language of communication for a large
portion of world population and it has evolved over the years. The emergence of
English language as a means of communication has also lead to the production of
various literatures in English language. The English literary tradition, translations
of world literatures into English and world wide acceptance of English language
has enriched the English language and literary studies to a large extent. There is a
need to ponder over various aspects of the English language and literary studies.
The International Conference aims to serve as a common platform for the
scholars and academics from world wide to exchange ideas by participating in
academic discussions and seminars.
Call for papers:
We welcome papers on the following themes:
Language.
* Language Change and Variation
* Language, identity and culture
* Language and technology
* Teaching of English as a second language
* Discourse Analyses
* Sociolinguistics
2. Literary Studies
* Literature written in English. (Includes all genres)
* Literature translated into English.(Includes all genres)
* Literary theory and criticism
* Inter Disciplinary approaches to literature
LAST DATE FOR ACCEPTANCE OF ABSTRACT (Not more than 300 words):
FEBRUARY 08, 2012.
Once the paper is selected for presentation, the candidate will be informed.
LAST DATE FOR ACCEPTANCE OF COMPLETE PAPERS:
FEBRUARY 28, 2012.
Last Date for registration: February 15, 2012.
REGISTRATION FEE: Rs2000/- INR (Includes boarding and lodging)
$100 (For foreign participants, includes boarding and lodging)
Rs 400/-INR (for students)
Nov 29
penpaneducation and academia, general observations, parody, stylistics anthroplogy, conferences, description, identity, style
The anthropological bent has dogged me, one might say, for a goodly period of my life. Occasioned, no doubt, by most of my early and formative years being spent on the sub-continent where many ethnic identities and language groups made themselves apparent to each other by the laying on of identity signifiers, many of which took the form of clothing – as well as an array of related adornment of a less practical motivation. My later adolescence on the Antipodean continent-cum-island can also be considered formative, at least in this regard, in that the teenaged Sydney-sider, even in the far-off decades of the 60’s and 70’s, was regularly required to focus their attention on the outward signifiers of dress that identified the wearer as in alignment (or not) with the local power structure. This self-scrutiny and the accompanying scrutiny of others on the part of teenaged female high-school students at the time, was enhanced and given direction in 1970 by the first appearance in the media-scape of the highly colourful and yet not very bright DOLLY magazine. I well recall my first perusal of that initial edition, to the extent that I remember to where and with whom I was travelling, and by what means. My reaction at the time may have included scoffing, I may even have suggested throwing the publication from a window of the top deck of the double decker bus in which we were being transported away from rather than in the direction of our secondary school on a weekday.
At the end of the following year, for the school farewell ball, I brought, in lieu of a beau, my adoptive older brother, a person I had adopted to fill the space that a genetically-related brother might have occupied should I have had one – which indeed I should have had. The point of this short anecdote is that my adoptive brother, as my escort, had refused to follow the ruling set down by the school rule-makers, to wit, that escorts (interlopers, you must admire, into the all-female domain of our high school cohort) needed to be sporting a tie, worn in the appropriate fashion around the neck and collar. Instead, our rebellion was realised in a resistance of the local power structure through non-compliance with the dress-code, whereby he attended the event in a polo-necked jumper. We were rewarded for our efforts with a series of counter-resistant entry-level embarrassments in the form of discussions between my teachers and my escort. Since it was no longer the sixties at that juncture, I still wonder whether the polo was a good move to make.
In terms of formativeness too, I have not even mentioned the Mater’s influence on my later psychological make-up. Suffice to say that we (my sister and I) were subject to constant admonitions regarding the attire of exemplary others. And by ‘exemplary’, I do not necessarily wish the reader to imagine I refer to its regular positive connotation, but that attention was regularly drawn to those exemplars of style and taste which might advise us, in the words of those very clever mass media mavens Trinny and Susannah, what not to wear. With apologies for being less than precise here, we can summarise some of these instances of clothing error through the use of broader labels encompassing the main idea entailed. Certainly, for example, girls with fat legs should not wear mini-skirts. I personally could not agree more, and not primarily because I would hope to restrict anyone’s freedom to wear what they wanted – this would no doubt redound on myself in some way (I was born in India after all you see) – but because I am afflicted by a very nasty turn at the sight of visual arrangements which are not aesthetically-pleasing, which by the by has always been a great burden to both myself and to any companions, on occasions of traversing any locale where, for example, a McDonald’s has set up shop. Other combinations that one should avoid included that of dirty hair and a white collar, a stiletto and a bare leg, green and blue in the same outfit, a scarf tied about the rollers on the head, garish jewellery, and so on – these all administered by the Mater with a small disapproving grimace.
These notes that I offer here have been occasioned by a recent excursion stateside, where I attended a conference in NYC (a pretext, one might observe) in which context I was alerted once again to a phenomenon I am aware I have been subconsciously registering for some time, but have not systematically described as yet. My attention in this instance was arrested, or motivated perhaps, by the outward appearance of one of the presenters, whose self-satisfied but dull readings of the writings of some favoured performance artists while standing before blurry blown-up images of the same artists – all of course having lead intense and thwarted lives until their activities as performance artists meant that their subjugated and hitherto unappreciated inner selves had been released – caused me to interrogate in an extended fashion the basis for my sudden wave of displeasure at her delivery. On that score, I could uncover no satisfaction, but in the process I became aware of her vestimentary attributes, collocations of clothing items I have in the past remarked repeated in a variety of ways such that they can be considered variations on a theme, instantiations in fact of a genre, a conventional combination, an iconic reference to a potential state of identity rather than, say, indexical of an object.
/……to be continued
Apr 11
eldonannouncements conferences
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Feb 11
eldonannouncements, language and brain, language and culture conferences
First Notification
Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind
The Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM V) will be held on 27-29 June 2012 at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. It will be preceded by a Young Researchers Workshop on 26 June 2012 (same venue), in which young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and current work.
The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language.
http://www.salc-sssk.org/lcm/
The theme for LCM V is
Integrating Semiotic Resources in Communication and Creativity
Plenary speakers:
· Nick Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
http://www.mpi.nl/people/enfield-nick
· Cynthia Lightfoot, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
http://www.brandywine.psu.edu/Academics/faculty_cgl3.htm
· Dan Slobin, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=35
· Beata Stawarska, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon
http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/faculty/profiles/stawarsk/
· Sherman Wilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
http://web.mac.com/swilcox/UNM/Welcome.html
The deadline for abstract submission will be Dec 15, 2011.
Detailed instructions for abstract submission and online registration for both LCM V and the LCM V Young Researchers Workshop will be included in the First Call for Papers that will be issued shortly.
Important dates
· Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Dec 2011
· Notification of acceptance: 15 Feb 2012
· Last date for early registration: 1 Mar 2012
· Last date for registration: 1 May 2012
· Final program publication: 15 May 2012
The International LCM organizing committee
· Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Language and Communication
· Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy
· John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology
· Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics
· Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish Language
· Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, Communication Studies
· Victor Rosenthal, Inserm-EHESS, Paris
· Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychology
· Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics
LCM V Local organizing committee
· Ana Margarida Abrantes, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture
· Peter Hanenberg, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture
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