Call for papers

The Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) is pleased to announce its 28th Annual Conference to be held at the University of Vigo (Spain) on 15-17 April 2010.

The Conference will cover the following areas:

• Language acquisition
• Language teaching
• Language for specific purposes
• Language psychology, child language and psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Pragmatics
• Discourse analysis
• Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering
• Lexicology and lexicography
• Translation and interpreting
• Special thematic section: genre analysis in ESP texts from a socio-pragmatic, functional and cognitive perspective (directors: Ana Roldán & Silvia Molina)

The list of panel coordinators and contact details can be downloaded from http://www.aesla.uji.es/paneles.

This international conference will count on the presence of the following distinguished speakers:

• Prof. María del Pilar García Mayo (Universidad del País Vasco)
• Prof. Adele E. Goldberg (Princeton University)
• Prof. Sylviane Granger (Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

Proposals (which should not exceed 500 words, figures and references apart) must be submitted using the conference page at http://webs.uvigo.es/aesla2010 no later than November 20th, 2009.

Referees will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection around December 21th. Contributors who wish to publish the extended versions of their submissions (approx. 2500 words, references included) in the Conference Proceedings book should send their papers no later than January 22nd 2010 following the style sheet at http://aesla2010.tucongreso.es/en/aesla2010-style-guidelines.

The conference languages are Spanish and English.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal.