PALC 2001 (PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE CORPORA)
(Department of English Language, Lodz University)
****NOTE THAT THE DATE ADVERTISED ORIGINALLY HAS BEEN CHANGED****
AIMS
The Department of English Language at Lodz University plans to hold =
the 3rd international conference devoted to PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN =
LANGUAGE CORPORA. The general topic of the conference is the =
relationship between language corpora and their uses in a range of =
language and linguistic fields. Our aim is to provide a forum for =
practical exemplifications of language corpora (written and spoken) in =
action and a forum for fruitful interaction between scholars. Hopefully, =
such a conference will act as a stimulus to teaching, and to scholarly =
and critical research.
DATES
The conference will be held over 3 days, 7 to 9 September 2001 =
(arrival day 6 September) at the Lodz University Conference Centre. We =
expect approximately 120 participants from Poland and Central Europe, =
Western Europe and other parts of the world.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
We have invited a number of internationally known scholars in corpus =
linguistics and related fields to be plenary speakers. Their names will =
be made public in the second circular.
TOPICS (All papers must be corpus-based.)
We invite papers on such topics as:
Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
Discourse and Language Corpora
ESP and Language Corpora
Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems in Corpora
FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
Language Teaching Materials and Language Corpora
Language Teaching and Learner Corpora=20
Lexicography and Language Corpora
Lexicology and Language Corpora,
Literature and Language Corpora
Phonetics/Phonology and Language Corpora
Translation and Language Corpora,
Other Corpus-related Topics
ABSTRACTS
Abstracts of papers should be up to 750 words long and forwarded (by =
e-mail, fax or mail) to the organisers. Deadline for submission of =
abstracts is 31 March 2001.=20
Presentations should last 45 minutes including demonstrations, =
questions and discussion.
PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Selected papers from the conference will be published by an =
international publisher.
COSTS
The cost of conference registration, accommodation and fullboard at =
the conference centre is:
Participants from Central and Eastern Europe:
(fee: 200 PLN + accommodation/fullboard: 550PLN) 750 PLN
N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by 31 March 2001 is 650 PLN
Participants from Western Europe, the Americas, Far East, Others
(fee: $150 + accommodation/fullboard: $300) $450
N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by 31 March 2001 is $400
PAYMENT
Payment should be by cheque (in US dollars or equivalent in other =
currencies), made out to:=20
Lodz University, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (PALC?01)
and forwarded to:=20
University of Lodz
Department of English Language
Al. Kosciuszki 65=20
90-514 Lodz=20
Poland
Alternatively, cash or cheque payment can be made on arrival.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Prof. dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk=20
Dr Stanislaw Roszkowski=20
Mgr Krzysztof Kredens
Department of English Language
Al. Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz=20
Poland
tel: (#48) 42 639 02 20=20
fax: (#48) 42 639 02 18=20
SECRETARIES:
Raf Uzar
Jacek Walinski
e-mail: corpora@krysia.uni.lodz.pl
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further details about the conference will be publicised in regular =
circulars to participants and academic institutions.
>>>Official language of the conference will be English<<<
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