The 4th Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
27 March 2009
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the Fourth Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.
We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any area of linguistics, theoretical or applied (see below for abstract 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.
The conference takes place at Newcastle University on Friday 27th March, 2009, in the Percy Building, Newcastle University, with a conference dinner in the evening.
Professor Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), and
Professor Zoltán Dörnyei (University of Nottingham) will be giving invited plenary lectures at this year’s conference.Key Dates
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Saturday 3rd January .
Notification of acceptance: early February, 2009
Pre-registration (for reduced rate): 1st March, 2009Abstract Submission Guidelines
Abstract submission guidelines are available at conferences.ncl.ac.uk/pglinguistics. Abstracts should be sent to pgconfling@ncl.ac.uk. Email submissions only, please (Microsoft Word/PDF format only).
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: conferences.ncl.ac.uk/pglinguistics.
If you have any queries, please email pgconfling@ncl.ac.uk.