CALL FOR
PAPERS
Dear
Colleagues,
We are organising the
1st 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 have received papers in
relation to the panels listed below:
- Internet and Literary Studies
- Internet and Translation
- Internet and Language Use / Linguistics and digital
genres
- Internet and Languages for Specific Purposes
- Internet and Foreign Language Teaching / Second Language
Acquisition
English, Spanish and
Catalan are the official languages of the conference. Papers in other
languages may be considered depending on their interest in relation to the
topic of the conference.
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. We are presently
working on the editing process of the
proceedings.
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 18th, 19th and 20th of
September 2003.
Conference Proceedings are to be
distributed among participants.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
The following speakers have
confirmed their participation in the Conference:
Prof. Santiago González y 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).
CONFERENCE FEE
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.
HOW TO ARRIVE
Castellón
is approximately 70 kms. from Valencia, 280 kms. from Barcelona and 410
kms. from Madrid.
-By
road: it takes 45 minutes through the motorway A7.
-By
train: apart from long-distance trains (Alaris/Euromed), a good suburban
train service links both cities in an hour time trip, with departures
every 30 minutes all through the day.
-By
road: through the A7 motorway.
-By train: different trains (Euromed,
Arco, Mare Nostrum…) link daily Castellón and Barcelona. In the case of
the Euromed twice a day, with a trip duration of two hours and fifteen
minutes.
-By
plane: to Manises airport, in Valencia.
-By
road: through NIII, road that links in Valencia with the
A7.
-By
train: two daily services of the Alaris train, with an estimated trip
duration of four hours and a half.
-By
plane: to Manises airport, in Valencia.
ACCOMMODATION
The
hotels that follow offer us the following prices per room and night (IVA
not included):
· Hotel
INTUR ****
Double
room of individual use: 50 euros.
Double
room: 50 euros.
Breakfast
per person:5,05 euros.
· Hotel
JAIME I ***
Double
room of individual use with buffet breakfast: 45
euros.
Double
room with buffet breakfast: 50 euros.
· Hotel
CASTELLÓN CENTER ****
Double
room of individual use with buffet breakfast: 50
euros
Double
room with buffet breakfast: 55 euros
As
an alternative, there’s also the possibility to find accommodation in the
university residence, placed in the very same campus. The price of the
individual room per day is 19.43 euros, breakfast not included. Breakfast
would have an additional cost of 1.20 euros. It is a university residence
inaugurated in 2002 with individual rooms with bathroom. The confirmation
ofvacancies will not be possible
until July.
REGISTRATION FEE FOR THE
CONFERENCE
Participants
in the Conference presenting a paper are to pay a fee of 120 euros. 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. Student’s fee is 40 euros.
The
payment of the registration fee will be done through a bank transfer,
before the 30th April, to BANCAJA (in Catalan Bancaixa):
- account number: 2077 - 0580-
46 -3103985430
swift code: CVALESVVXXX
iban number: ES52 2077 0580 4631 0398 5430
In
the transfer, the code and the line of the Conference on Internet and
Language must be included:
-Code:
03G032
-Line:
03025
(Please,
include these data, otherwise you may not be officially registered in the
Conference)
Once
the transfer is done, a copy of it must be sent by postal mail before the
30th April (the date remains open for people who are attending the
conference) to the following address:
Santiago
Posteguillo Gómez
Dept.
de Filología
Universitat
Jaume I
Castellón,
12071
SPAIN
Thank
you very much for your collaboration in this process.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For information regarding the conference
you may contact:
We all look forward to seeing you at
Universitat Jaume I and making your stay a pleasant and rewarding one next
September.
Kind
regards,
ORGANISING COMMITEE
Amparo Alcina (Universitat Jaume I)
Alicia Bolaños (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria)
María José Esteve (Universitat Jaume I)
Elena Ortells (Universitat Jaume I)
Jordi Piqué (Universitat de València)
Santiago Posteguillo (Universitat Jaume I )
José Ramón Prado (Universitat Jaume I)
Mª Lluisa Gea Valor (Universitat Jaume I)
