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[Delirium's Brother]

An opportunity for professional development has come to my attention. Perhaps some of you might be interested in either giving papers or simply attending this conference. I received this announcement through a mailing list for language researchers that I am on. The conference is in March, but paper proposals need to be submitted by Sept. 30. Eight days doesn't seem like a lot of time to prepare something, but it only has to be an abstract, not the whole paper. And if you want to go maybe you can expense it to your institution. Cheers.

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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:27:29 -1000
From: National Foreign Language Resource Center <[email protected]>
Subject: Final Call for Proposals (deadline September 30) - 2007
Pragmatics & Language Learning Conference

Our apologies for any cross-postings . . .

17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRAGMATICS & LANGUAGE LEARNING (PLL)
Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center
Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
March 26-28, 2007

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/

The conference will address a broad range of topics in pragmatics,
discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second
and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a
variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:
* Junko Mori, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Steven Talmy, University of British Columbia

INVITED COLLOQUIA:
* Study Abroad Experiences from a Language Socialization Perspective
(Convener: Haruko Cook, University of Hawai'i)
* Negotiating the Self in Another Language: Discourse Approaches to
Language Learning as Cross-cultural Adaptation (Convener: Christina
Higgins, University of Hawai'i)

INVITED WORKSHOPS:
* Using Questionnaires in Research on Pragmatics (Facilitator: Kenneth
Rose, City University Hong Kong)
* Teaching and Learning L2 Pragmatics in Computer-mediated Environments
(Facilitator: Julie Belz, Monterey Institute of International Studies)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (DEADLINE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2006):

Proposals for presentation are welcome on topics such as
* L2 talk and text
* Developmental L2 pragmatics
* Pragmatics in language education
* Pragmatics in language assessment
* Pragmatics in computer-mediated communication
* Theory and methodology in pragmatics

Proposals may be submitted for PAPERS (20 minutes for presentation, 10
minutes for discussion) and POSTERS. Abstracts for all presentation
formats undergo blind peer review.

ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

For more information about the conference or to submit a proposal online,
visit our website at:

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/

[gang ah jee]

The notice for that conference is up in my department's meeting/staff room and I've gazed longingly at it - PLL is where most of my research interests lie. No chance of me making it to Hawai'i though.

[OiGirl]

Yeah, it sounded really good until I saw the Hawaii part...

[tzechuk]

Are you back in Korea OiGirl?

[OiGirl]

Yes, for good for the time being.