1^st International Conference on Internet and Language

Call for Papers

Plenary speakers

Conference fee

Further information

The Scientific and Organising Committee
 
 

Dear Colleagues,

We are organising the 1^st International Conference on Internet and Language. This is intended as a forum of discussion for linguists and researchers in areas such as Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Literary Studies or Translation, among other disciplines, who are involved in the use or study of Internet, either as a research or teaching resource or as a linguistic phenomenon in itself. We welcome papers in relation to the panels listed below:

1. Internet and Literary Studies
2. Internet and Translation
3. Internet and Language Use / Linguistics and digital genres
4. Internet and Languages for Specific Purposes
5. Internet and Foreign Language Teaching / Second Language Acquisition

Our intention is to receive full papers by February 2003 so as to be able to edit Conference Proceedings in the second semester and then distribute the published proceedings in the conference in September 2003.
 
 

Venue

The Conferece will be held at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón (http://sic.uji.es/www/ang/  ).

Conference Dates

The Conference is to take place on the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th of September 2003.

Important dates for submission of abstracts and papers
December 20 100-200 word abstracts submitted to the above mentioned email and mail addresses. PLEASE INDICATE THE PANEL IN WHICH YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE.

February 5 Full papers are to be sent to the above mentioned addresses.

February 20 Authors receive referee's comments.

March 5 Authors are to submit the final version of their papers.

March 10 Deadline for Conference fee payment. Late payments will be charged 20 euro extra.

Sept. 18-20 Conference Proceedings are distributed among participants.
 

Abstracts and full papers are to be emailed to one of the following addresses:

postegui@fil.uji.es

resteve@fil.uji.es

and mailed (two copies and a floppy disk version) to the following regular address:

Santiago Posteguillo Gómez
First International Conference on Internet and Language
Dept of English and Romance Philology
Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials
Campus Riu Sec
Universitat Jaume I
12.071- Castelló
SPAIN

The following speakers have confirmed their participation in the Conference:

Prof. Santiago González Fernández Corugedo (Universidad de Oviedo)

Professor Santiago González Fernández Corugedo has published many books and articles on a number of different topics in the area of English Studies on such fields as literature or the history of English Language. Lately, he has combined this on-going research with several lectures on the relevance of Internet and computer resources for English Philology studies in the universities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Valladolid, Jaume I de Castelló, La Laguna, La Rioja, Sevilla or Salamanca, among others. He has also given graduate courses on this same topic, and has special interest on the following subjects: the epistemological influence of computer science on critical editions, the use of computer tools for English philologists and for linguistic research, hypertext, and the specific use of computing tools for Mediaeval studies.
 
 

Prof. Naomi S.Baron (American University, Washington, DC)

Professor  Naomi  S.  Baron  is interested in the effects of technology on language.  Her current  research  program  includes such questions as: the source  of email style, the effect of notions of privacy and public face on the  way we write, the impact of social attitudes and of digital technology on  copyright,  the  influence  of mobile phone technology on interpersonal communication,  the fate of handwriting in a digital age, and the future of
written  culture.  She  has  published many books and articles on these and other  topics  related to language acquisition, computers and language, and linguistic  theory.  Recently,  her  book  Alphabet  to  Email: How Written English  Evolved  and  Where  It's  Heading  (Routledge,  2000) was "Highly Commended"  in  the  English  Speaking  Union's  Duke  of Edinburgh English Language Award Competition.
 
 

Dr Francisco Yus (Universidad de Alicante)

Dr Francisco Yus is Senior lecturer at Universidad de Alicante. He has been teaching and investigating on a variety of linguistic aspects focussing on theoretical linguistics, relevance theory, and pragmatics, among other topics. Dr Yus has published many papers on these subjects and more recently he has published Ciberpragmática (Ariel, 2001) where he explores different linguistic and pragmalinguistic aspects of Internet communication.

Dr Rafael Alejo (Universidad de Extremadura)

Dr Rafael Alejo is Senior Lecturer at Universidad de Extremadura. He has been researching in different areas within linguistics and languages for specific purposes, with a special focus on cultural differences in language communication and the specificity of business and economics discourse. Dr Alejo has published many papers on these and other subjects. He has also investigated the applicability of Internet resources for English language teaching and is co-author of Aprender Inglés en Internet (Universidad de Extremadura, 1997).
 
 

Participants in the conference presenting a paper are to pay a fee of 120 euro. This fee includes registration and a copy of the Conference Proceedings edited in two volumes.

Other participants attending the conference are to pay 80 euro. Students' fee is 40 euro.
 
 

Further information will be forwarded in relation to:

1. the official website of the conferences
2. information on accommodation and travel
3. information on excursions and official conference dinner
4. full program of the conference

Santiago Posteguillo at postegui@fil.uji.es or María José Esteve at resteve@fil.uji.es or any other member in the Scientific & Organising Committee.

We all look forward to seeing you at Universitat Jaume I and making your stay a pleasant and rewarding one next September.

Kind regards,