LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE 2013

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Languages and people: diversity and harmony

28–29 September 2016

Vilnius University

This is the first call for papers for the 4th international conference of applied linguistics to be held 28-29 September 2016 in Vilnius University. The Conference will be hosted by the Department of Lithuanian Studies, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics LITAKA.

TOPICS. The Conference aims at bringing together various aspects of research under the umbrella of applied linguistics: a variety of ways, a range of disciplines and sub-disciplines, including sociolinguistics, language policy, discourse analysis, translation and interpretation, language teaching and learning, language acquisition, language testing, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, etc.

PRESENTATIONS. Each presentation should be no longer than 20 minutes; 10 minutes are given for questions and/or discussion. Poster presentations are also invited.

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words.

LANGUAGES: English and Lithuanian

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Prof. Anne Pauwels, University of London (UK)http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff60359.php

Prof. Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)http://das.elte.hu/content/faculty/kovecses/cv.html

Prof. Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham (UK)http://www.norbertschmitt.co.uk

LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE 2013

VENUE :

Faculty of PhilologyUniversiteto St 5LT-01513 VilniusLithuania

FEES:

Senior regular–100 EUR

Senior early bird–80 EUR

Student* regular–70 EUR

Student* early bird–50 EUR

* Student fees are also applicable to LITAKA members.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2016

Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection: 31 March 2016

Deadline for early bird registration: 15 May 2016 (early bird fee applicable)

Deadline for registration: 31 August 2016

You can address your queries to: lina.vaskeviciene@flf.vu.lt