CALLING ALL PG STUDENTS in Linguistics!!!

 

 

Final Call for Papers

 

The 8^th Newcastle-upon-Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics

Friday 5^th of April 2013

9:00 – 17:00

Herschel Building, Newcastle University

 

We are pleased to announce the 8th Newcastle-upon-Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics. We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any area of linguistics (please see attachment for submission guidelines).

 

This one-day conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from all research areas an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting.

 

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Geoffrey Leech

Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language

(Lancaster University)

Steve Walsh

Professor of Applied Linguistics

(Newcastle University)

Emma Marsden

Senior Lecturer of Applied Linguistics

(University of York)

 

The conference will take place at Newcastle University on Monday 5^th of April 2012, in the Herschel Building, Newcastle University, with a conference dinner in the evening.

 

KEY DATES

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday, 11^th January 2013.

Notification of acceptance: Mid February 2013.

Registration opens 11th February 2013.

 

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please see the link below:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/study/postgrad/conference/abstractsubmission.htm

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

Accepted abstracts will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. There will be a dedicated poster session on the day of the conference. Speakers will also be invited to submit their paper for publication in the Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics.

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

More information can be found at the conference website:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/study/postgrad/conference/

 

If you have any queries, please email us at pgconfling@ncl.ac.uk.

Best wishes,

 

The 8^th Newcastle-upon-tyne Conference Organising Committee

email: pgconfling@ncl.ac.uk

website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/study/postgrad/conference/