8-10 December 2008 (Mon-Wed)
City University of Hong Kong & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/lsp/APacLSP08

Keynote Speakers
Patrice Buzzanell (Purdue University, USA)
Christopher Candlin (Macquarie University, Australia)
Gu Yueguo (The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China)
Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Giovanni Parodi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
Invited Colloquium Conveners
Catherine Nickerson (Swiss Graduate School of Management Studies, India)
Priscilla Rogers (University of Michigan, USA)

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Professional Communication in the broad Asia-Pacific Rim region to contribute to a stimulating and dynamic exchange of ideas in communication research, practice, training, and assessment. It also marks the inauguration of the Asia-Pacific Rim LSP and Professional Communication Association. The primary aim of the proposed Association will be to promote transdisciplinary and collaborative research and training, and to facilitate sharing of resources in LSP and Professional Communication in the Asia-Pacific Rim region.

We invite papers or posters that explore communication research, practice and training:

Research
· Discourse studies of academic, professional, institutional and other workplace contexts
· Approaches and methodologies in LSP and professional communication research
· Multimodalities

Practice
· Language in the workplace
· Curriculum design for professional development
· Learning at the workplace

Training
· Professional communication in corporate training
· Assessment and appraisal
· Recruitment and training

Please refer to our website for further information.

Abstract Submissions
Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to egrcpce@polyu.edu.hk, using the Word template which is available on our conference website
http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/lsp/APacLSP08.

Deadline for abstract submission : 19th July, 2008 (Sat)
Notification of acceptance by 22nd August, 2008 (Fri)

Deadline 19 July 2008

Call for Papers
for ongoing submissions
to Register and Context

This is an ongoing call for papers for Register and Context, a quarterly journal on LSP, Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics.
Register and Context is seeking submissions of previously unpublished manuscripts on any topic dealing with occupational discourse. For this first issue, we are accepting submissions from a range of linguistic perspectives, both theoretical and applied. We especially welcome both practical and research focused articles. Articles should have a clear focus and be written so that they are accessible to a broad audience of linguists and language professionals, including those individuals who may not be familiar with the particular subject matter addressed in the article.

Articles should report on original research or present an original framework that links previous research, linguistic theory, and current practices. Full-length articles should be no more than 7500 words in length and should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. We encourage articles that take advantage of the electronic format by including hypermedia links to multimedia material both within and outside the article.

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (currently, the 5th Ed.).

Manuscripts should be submitted in either DOC, RTF or ODT format to submit@registerandcontext.de The blind peer reviewing process requires anonymous manuscripts. Avoid any information in the article which could reveal your identity. You should provide your name, address, title of the paper, and a short abstract (no more than 500 words) in your cover email.

We will acknowledge receipt of your submission as soon as it reaches us. If you don’t receive any acknowledgment within a week, please re-send your submission.

Review Process
All article manuscripts submitted to Register and Context go through an internal review first which takes 3 – 4 weeks. If the article meets the basic requirements, it is sent out for external double-blind review by members of our editorial board. This second process takes 1-2 months. Following the external review, the authors are sent copies of the external reviewers' comments and are notified as to the decision (accept as is, accept pending changes, revise and resubmit, or reject).

Copyright
The submission of an article to Register and Context implies that neither the article nor any of its parts is copyrighted or currently under review for any journal, edited collection, or conference proceedings. If the article, any portion of it, or any other version of it, has appeared, or is scheduled to appear in another publication of any kind, the details of such publication must be made known to the editors at the time of submission. By submitting a paper you agree for it to be licensed under the Digital Peer Publishing license and published by Register and Context under these terms. You can get more information about Register and Context at our website:
www.registerandcontext.de

Removal 15 August 2008

Call for Papers

Current Issues in Language Planning (ISSN 1466-4208), published by Multilingual Matters since 2000, provides major summative and thematic review studies, and book reviews, spanning and focusing the disparate language policy and planning literature related to: Polities & Language Planning (2 numbers); Issues in Language Planning (2 numbers) a year. 

CILP is announcing a Call for Papers for a forthcoming issue on “Language Planning and Sign/Signed Languages”.

The Editor for this issue is Gabrielle Hogan-Brun < G.Hogan-Brun@bristol.ac.uk>.  It is anticipated papers will be published in Vol 10. 2009.

Suggested deadline for receipt of abstracts: August 2008
Suggested deadline for receipt of final papers: February 2009

Removal 31 August 2008

The Linguistics Journal http://www.linguistics-journal.com/index.php invites submissions of articles to be considered for publication in a forthcoming special issue of the Journal entitled Language, Culture and Identity in Asia, scheduled for publication in August 2009.

This edition focuses on sociolinguistic approaches to the investigation of Language, Culture and Identity in Asia. Articles can be on, but are not restricted to, topics like:
* Bilingualism, Code-switching, Endangered languages, Language and identity, Language attitudes,Language policy, Language revitalization,
* Language shift and language maintenance, Languages in contact, Minority languages

The geographical area includes all Asian countries including the Middle East. We welcome research on sociolinguistic issues in languages other than English as well as research on English as a Second or Foreign Language in the contexts concerned. We would also welcome theoretical or review papers.

In order to assist planning, authors are requested to send expressions of interest or requests for further information to the corresponding editor, cfcavallaro@ntu.edu.sg. The closing date for receipt of first drafts of papers for this special issue is December 31st 2008. All papers will be subject to the normal peer review process of the Journal. The expected deadline for submission of final versions is May 31st 2009. We welcome submission by email. For submission guidelines, please follow this link:

http://www.linguistics-journal.com/submission_guide.php

Please submit papers for this special issue to:
Dr Francesco Cavallaro,
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies,
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
cfcavallaro@ntu.edu.sg

Deadline 31 December 2008

The 21st European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop
8-10 July, 2009 Cardiff, Wales

First Call for Papers & Workshops
http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/esflcw/

Theme: ‘Choice’
“The grammar is based on the notion of choice” (Halliday, 1969)

Choice could be considered the most important core concept in Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is perhaps the most controversial or challenging. What do we mean by choice? Although choice is a central notion in Systemic Functional Linguistics, it is rarely the explicit topic of research. The goal of ESFLCW09 is to consider the role of ‘choice’ as a core concept in theoretical and applied work.

We strongly encourage paper submissions to ESFLCW09 to address the theme of ‘choice’ in one of the following ways. Its role in:
* Systemic Functional Linguistic theory.
* Human language production and/or understanding.
* Computational language generation and/or parsing.
* Code-switching and multilingualism - one system or many?
* The practical analysis of the clause, text, and/or discourse.

We would also like to encourage submissions which link SFL with related linguistic theories where choice also plays an important role (for example, other functional approaches, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc.).

Papers focussing on other core concepts in SFL will also be accepted. Research on languages other than English is strongly encouraged. We also welcome submissions representing work in progress.

Presentations may be organised according to the following strands:
* lexicogrammar
* phonology and intonation
* computational models
* language disorders
* corpus linguistics
* formulaic or mulitword expressions
* language production and understanding
* choice for the analyst
* code switching and multilingualism
* language acquisition
* language evolution
* historical linguistics
* other (please specify)

Plenary Speakers:
* Chris Butler, Swansea University
* Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool
* Elke Teich, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Submissions
Papers: We invite submission of abstracts of papers for presentation at the conference. Papers directly relevant to the conference theme will be preferred but we will consider other topics within Systemic-Functional Linguistics. Presentations will be 20 minutes long plus 10 minutes for questions.

Workshops: We will be able to hold a small number of 1.5 hour workshops. Workshops will need to be directly relevant to the theme. Please send a description of the workshop.

For each submission, please provide:
* For each author: name, title, affiliation.
* Title of paper.
* Abstract (not more than 300 words).
* The strand or strands appropriate for your submission (if ‘other’, please specify)
* State whether the submission is for a paper or workshop presentation.

Please send abstracts by email to: eisfw@cf.ac.uk
Closing Date: 1st February 2009
For more information: www.cf.ac.uk/encap/esflcw/

Deadline 1 February 2009