TaLC 12 will be held from 20 to 23 July 2016 at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
Important dates:
Call for papers: 15 October 2015
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2016
Notifications of acceptance: 15 February 2016
Registration opens: 15 February 2016
Registration closes: 15 June 2016
Conference: 20-23 July 2016
Merry Christmas everyone, hope you have a great holiday time and a wonderful, happy new year 2016.
Pascual.
15th International AELFE Conference
Today’s and Tomorrow’s Challenges in Languages for Specific Purposes and Translation
Universidad de Alcalá
Guadalajara, Spain, 23 – 24 June 2016
1st CALL FOR PAPERS
In the context of an increasing specialization in languages and translation due to the increasing number of contexts where specialized languages and translation are needed in the world along with the current internationalization of Higher Education and the effect of technology in education and , it is necessary to revise the role of languages for specific and academic purposes and translation. AELFE 2016 intend to bring together researchers, academics, language professionals with a genuine concern in these areas, along with academics and experts in other fields and languages all over the world.
This conference is aimed at those who are interested in all aspects of research and applications of these fields who might be interested in publishing high quality papers in reputed academic journals and in a special volume of peer-reviewed selected presentations under the seal of the Universidad de Alcalá Publishing.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Ana M. Gimeno (Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
MK Jauregi Ondarra (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Alex Boulton (Directeur adjoint UFR Lansad, France)
Thematic strands:
Conference languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
We invite contributions in the form of paper presentations or posters on any of the above topics (but not restricted to them). Please submit your proposal in EN, DE, FR, IT, or ES, saved as PDF https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aelfe2016, by 28 January 2016,
Paper presentations will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Especially welcome will be paper submissions presenting research (either complete or in progress) related to the conference topics. In addition, they should be interesting and academically of good quality. Poster abstracts are particularly welcome if they report on innovative research and/or on projects relevant to at least one of the conference topics. Presenters who want to submit more than proposals can do it in form of posters (two more). A prize to the best poster will be granted at the end of the conference.
The first page of the Proposal should include:
In addition, please indicate:
Abstracts should include a brief outline of the research/project context and clearly indicate the objectives, method(s) and results. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee and AELFE panel coordinators.
Participants interested in displaying copies of their work (books, teaching resources) or project materials should contact the organisers at aelfe2016@uah.es
KEY DATES:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 28, 2016
Registration opens: March 1
Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2016
Deadline for submitting complete
short paper (2500 words) May 15, 2016
Early registration deadline: May 1, 2016
Registration deadline to ensure the inclusion
in the conference program: June 1, 2016.
REGISTRATION & CONFERENCE FEE:
The conference fee includes: the conference folder, book of abstracts, refreshments and snack lunch on both conference days, and the conference dinner on Thursday. Please note that it does not include accommodation and the trip on Saturday.
| Early bird
(till 15 May) |
Participants who are not members of AELFE | EURO 170 | |
| Members of AELFE | EURO 120 | ||
| Students (with proof of registration in 2015-2016) | EURO 35 | ||
| After 15 May | Participants who are not members of AELFE | EURO 185 | |
| Members of AELFE | EURO 135 | ||
| Students (with proof of registration in 2015-2016) | EURO 45 | ||
Reduced fee for students includes conference folder coffee breaks (not lunch) and the volume of proceedings.
Account details for the bank transfer will be found in the conference website after February 1st 2016.
More details soon at www.aelfe.org and on the conference website http://www3.uah.es/aelfe2016 (temporary)
2016 PLIN Day, hosted by the Linguistics Research Unit of UCLouvain in Belgium.
After last year’s successful edition on Lexical complexity, this year’s topic is ‘Language and the new (instant) media’. The PLIN Day will take place on 12 May 2016 in Louvain-la-Neuve.
More information and registration (free for all Belgian participants)
The main objective of the workshop is to bring together specialists from a number of different but related fields to discuss the specificities of language in the new media. The workshop will thus offer a view of different approaches to language in the new media. The event will be structured around five keynote presentations and poster sessions. We are happy to welcome the following keynote speakers:
Patricia Bou-Franch (Universitat de València)
Walter Daelemans (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Elisabeth Stark (University of Zurich)
Caroline Tagg (The Open University)
Olga Volckaert-Legrier (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
The poster sessions, which will include time for a short oral presentation of each poster, offer a forum for numerous other research trends. If you’re a PhD student, you’re eligible for the Best Poster Award!
Posters may deal with any of the following linguistic domains:
Discourse analysis
Language norms and contacts
Communication
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Language Statistics
We also invite companies which develop research or research-based applications concerning language and new media, to submit a poster proposal.
Important dates:
Deadline for poster proposal submissions: 31 January 2016
Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2016
Submission of Power Point Presentations for the posters boost session: 1 May 2016
We are also happy to inform you that the Annual Linguistic Day of the Linguistic Society of Belgium will also be held at UCL, on 13 MAY 2016, the day after the PLIN day (http://www.uclouvain.be/en-528988.html)
Best regards,
Convenors:
Louise-Amélie Cougnon (Girsef – Cental), Barbara De Cock (Valibel – Discours et variation) and Cédrick Fairon (Cental)
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Official Website: http://www.plindayucl.com/
—
Prof. Cédrick Fairon
Directeur
Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL)
Place Blaise Pascal, 1, bte L3.03.12 B-1348-Louvain-la-Neuve
cedrick.fairon@uclouvain.be
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From the original webiste:
Poetry By Heart is a UK national competition designed to encourage pupils aged 14-18 and at school and college in England to learn and to recite poems by heart. Not in an arm-waving, props-supported thespian extravaganza, but as the outward and audible manifestation of an inwardly-understood and enjoyed poem.
Poetry By Heart successfully engages young people from diverse social backgrounds and all types of school in personal discovery of the pleasures of poetry. Each pupil is challenged to memorise and recite two poems – one published before 1914 and one in or after 1914 or one from a special collection of World War 1 poems as part of the centenary commemorations.. Pupils choose these from the timeline anthology of over 600 years of poetry on this website. In 2015-16, for the Grand Finals, contestants will recite a third poem.
The competition is a pyramid of participation from individual classrooms to whole school/college contests, then county contests, regional semi-finals and the grand final, to be held at Homerton College, Cambridge on March 17th – 19th 2016. In the process, pupils foster deep personal connections with the poems chosen and bring poetry alive for their friends, families and communities.
My insight:
What I found truly amazing here is the collection of poems than can be read, heard, read out aloud or copied, ranging from 1000 to Andre Motion’s 2014 stuff. The section Poetry for children is a wonderful resource (I want to be a child here, not a grown up any more), top quality design and truly engaging. The timeline is really inspiring.
