The 6th Annual International Free Linguistics Conference will be held in the Eastern Avenue Auditorium Complex, on Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus on the 6th and 7th of October, 2012.
The aim of this conference is to provide scholars, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students with current research issues from all fields of linguistics & TESOL an open and widely accessible forum.
The conference is free due to generous sponsorship from the University of Sydney.
The main feature that distinguishes this conference is its focus on freedom:
Focus speakers will include:
Shirley Dita, De La Salle University
Angel Lin, University of Hong Kong
Karl Maton, University of Sydney
Ghil'ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide Abstract
With more to be confirmed
There will also be a performance of ‘Reading Mandela: Genre Pedagogy versus Ancient Rhetoric’ written by Rob McCormack abstract
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Call for Papers
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for papers, colloquia, poster presentations, or hot topics.
Abstracts are invited from any linguistic (and TESOL) sub-fields, and presenters may choose from the following strands:
Aboriginal Languages, Cognitive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Critical Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, First Language Acquisition, Forensic Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language & Culture, Language in Education, Language Policy & Planning, Languages Other Than English (LOTE), Multilingualism, Natural Language Processing, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Second/Additional Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, TESOL, Translation, Interpretation, Other.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1st of May 2012
Proceedings
There will be a proceedings to be published from this year's Free Linguistics Conference. All presenters will be emailed following the conference with information and you will then be asked to submit your paper within a deadline to be announced.
Previous proceedings can be found at the following links:
'Questioning Linguistics' (from FLC2007) http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Questioning-Linguistics1-84718-667-X.htm
'Appliable Linguistics' (from FLC2008) http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=157221&SubjectId=...
Mahboob, A. & Knight, N. (2010). Guest editors of the special issue featuring selected papers presented at the Free Linguistics Conference 2009. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Vol 4.1. (http://www.equinoxjournals.com/LHS/issue/view/841). In addition to this volume, other papers presented at FLC are also published in the regular issues of LHS.
Mahboob, A. & Knight, N. (2011). Guest editors of the special issue featuring selected papers presented at the Free Linguistics Conference 2010. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Vol 5.2. (http://www.equinoxpub.com/LHS/issue/view/1060). In addition to this volume, other papers presented at FLC are also published in the regular issues of LHS.
A special issue of 'Linguistics and the Human Sciences' is in preparation. This issue will publish selected papers from FLC 2011. For more information on the journal, see http://www.equinoxjournals.com/LHS.