Language: English
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014
Organisers:
• Center for World Music (CWM), University of Hildesheim (Germany)
• Department of Music & Dance, University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
• Department of Education, University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)
• African Music Archives (AMA), Department of Anthropology and African
Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)
N.B.: The conference languages are French, Portuguese, Spanish and English, without giving priority to any of them.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization:
(De)centring and (de)standardization
The University of Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2015
Deadline for abstract submission is 20 October 2014 (extended).
See call for papers here: http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015
<p style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 150%;">Quantifying methods have been used to analyse language for almost a century. The interest in such methods has increased since the popularisation of computer technologies in the 1980s which has changed language practices on the one hand and the way these languages are studied by researchers on the other hand. In recent years this had a huge impact on the research landscape: numerous initiatives, platforms and projects have occurred under the label of digital humanities and big data.
First International Scientific Conference “Language in the Coordinates of the Mass Media”
SEPTEMBER 6-9, 2016 VARNA, BULGARIA
Since its beginnings in the late 19th century, the Blues has been more than a music style with a seminal impact on 20th century popular music. As a medium of social expression, it articulated the tribulations of an entire black culture, male and female. Discourses about race were as much an integral part of the evolution of the blues as were those of class, when young white kids - in America and European countries, especially the UK - adopted the music for their political and social ends.
The Chair of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland is starting a new conference series: Cognition, Conduct & Communication. CCC2011 is the first international conference devoted to a complex yet integrated and consistent study of cognitive approaches to pragmatics and discourse analysis, language learning and use, and language disorders.
Ethnography of Communication: The Ways Forward June 10-14, 2012 Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Proposal Deadline: December 17, 2011
The summer of 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of Dell Hymes’ 1962 landmark publication of “The Ethnography of Speaking,” and the 25th anniversary of Gerry Philipsen’s 1987 influential theoretical work, “The Prospect for Cultural Communication.” These milestones in the Ethnography of Communication (EC) come at a time when EC scholarship is developing intensively as it is being applied to practical concerns and social problems worldwide.