SEALS 19 Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

SEALS XIX The 19th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 28-29 May 2009 University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam SECOND CALL FOR PAPERThe Southeast Asian Linguistics Society - SEALS - was founded at Wayne State University (in Detroit, Michigan) in 1990. SEALS holds an annual conference in diverse locations in the United States, Australia, Southeast Asia and other countries. This time, SEALS XIX will be hosted in Vietnam by the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. Abstracts are invited for papers on any topic related to the analysis of Southeast Asian languages, such as descriptive, theoretical, or historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology (ethnolinguistics, language attitudes and ideology, discourse and conversational analysis, language and gender, language and politics), language planning, literacy and bilingual education. Abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2009. Abstracts are preferably written using a Unicode font and should consist of two or three pages as follows: Page 1 Author's name and Paper's title Abstract body (maximum 400 words). Be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions. Page 2 References (if any). An author may submit one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one author should be designated as the contact person. Presentations are allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. All papers at SEALS are presented in English. Papers presented at the meeting will be considered for publication in the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Submission Abstracts can be submitted by one of the following ways: - By email, as email attachments in two formats, .PDF and .DOC, to Dinh Lu Giang, at the following address: seals19@vns.edu.vn. Please indicate "Abstract for SEALS XIX" in the email subject heading. - By online uploading submission, please click HERE. Notification of acceptance by 15 March 2008 (by email). Organizing Committee: Local Committee: Nguyen Van Hue Dinh Lu Giang Le Ngoc Hoang Yen International Committee: Martha Ratliff George Bedell Brian Migliazza Paul Sidwell Doug Cooper Mark Alves Marc Brunelle Sponsor: Faculty of Vietnamese Studies University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University - HCM City Phone: +848 38 225009 Fax: +848 38 229390
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