5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 5)
Dates
July 7 — 9, 2008
Venue
The University of Leuven, Belgium
Organizer
The University of Leuven, The University of Louvain and Ghent University, Belgium
Keynote speakers
* Kasia Jaszczolt, reader in linguistics and philosophy of language, Cambridge University, UK (Meaning merger: an object of study for contrastive semantics and pragmatics?)
* Ekkehard Knig, professor of English linguistics, Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany (Reviving contrastive linguistics: a programmatic sketch)
* Peter Koch, professor of Romance linguistics, Eberhard-Karls-Universitt Tübingen, Germany (Lexical typology and contrastive linguistics)
* Antoinette Renouf, professor of English language and linguistics, Birmingham City University, UK (A comparison of idiom construction in English and French mainstream journalism)
Call for papers
The ICLC 5 invites papers or posters with a comparative approach to topics related to one of the following domains:
* Discourse analysis and pragmatics
* Syntax and semantics
* Lexicon and morphology
* Phonetics and phonology
Submission information
Participants can only present one paper. Exceptionally, two papers may be presented by the same participant, provided that both are co-authored. There is a maximum of three named authors/participants per paper.
Registration deadline
May 31, 2008
Registration fee
150 Euros ($233)
Contact
Tel: +32 16 32 50 32 or +32 16 32 50 30
E-mail: ICLC5@arts.kuleuven.be
For more information, go to http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/iclc5
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