2nd Linguistics Research Student Conference @ SOAS
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Various TBC
Date: 15 May 2015Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 15 May 2015Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Vernon Square Room: V327
Type of Event: Conference
The Department of Linguistics at SOAS is pleased to announce its inaugural Linguistics Research Student Conference, which will take place on 15th May 2015.
The conference is organised by postgraduate research students in the Department of Linguistics. We warmly welcome research students from all faculties and centres across University of London to participate.
The aim of LRSC@SOAS is to provide a venue for research students who are interested in languages and linguistics to present their research, and facilitate collaboration and communication among peers in related areas.
Theme
We invite contributions from any field of linguistics, including but not limited to:
- theoretical linguistics
- historical linguistics
- anthropological linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- language pedagogy
- language acquisition
- translation theory and practice
- corpus linguistics
- language documentation
- computational linguistics
Key dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20th March 2015
Notification of acceptance: 17th April 2015
Conference day: 15th May 2015
Abstracts
Each presentation will be 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute discussion. English will be the language of the conference.
Abstracts should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents (or PDF if special fonts are used). They should not exceed one page, and use 1" margins and 12pt font including title, data, and examples. References may be attached on a second page. Each person is allowed to submit a maximum of two abstracts, but one of the two must be co-authored.
As all submissions will be reviewed anonymously, all author-specific information should be avoided and/or remove from the abstract, but included in the body of the email.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically to:lrscSOAS@gmail.com
Registration and Fees
There is no fee. To register, please email lrscSOAS@gmail.com
Local Organising Committee Members
Peter Austin (coordinator)
Lutz Marten (coordinator)
Andrea Bowden
Andrew David Harvey
Chelsea Krajcik
Miriam Weidl
Contact email: lrscSOAS@gmail.com