XXVI AESLA International Conference: Call for papers

XXVI AESLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: “FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS” / “DE LA LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA A LA LINGÜÍSTICA DE LA MENTE: HITOS, PRÁCTICAS Y TENDENCIAS”.

Dear Colleague,

The Spanish Applied Linguistics Association (AESLA) is pleased to announce its XXVI Annual Conference to be held at the University of Almería (Spain) on April 3-5, 2008.

This International Conference will count on the presence of the following distinguished speakers:

Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB
Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA
José Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Università di Pisa, Italy
Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain
Marco Casonato, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
The Conference will cover the following areas:

Language acquisition
Language teaching
Language for specific purposes
Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
Discourse analysis
Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering
Lexicology and lexicography
Translation and interpreting
Proposals (pertaining to the areas mentioned above and max. 500 words, figures and references apart) must be submitted using this page no later than December 1st, 2007.

Reviewers will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will be required to authors within a month from acceptance.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal.

Yours sincerely,

Carmen Mª Bretones Callejas
University of Almería, Spain