{"id":7098,"date":"2017-03-06T09:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:36:25","slug":"call-for-papers-ellsoc-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/03\/06\/call-for-papers-ellsoc-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers: ELLSoc conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/organisation\/UKCELLSOC\/\">English Language &amp; Linguistics Society<\/a> (ELLSoc) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\">Kent Union<\/a> will be hosting a student conference on Saturday 8 April 2017, with invited speakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/mcmahon.html\">Professor April McMahon<\/a> (University of Kent) and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/staff\/staff103173.php\"> Dr Lauren Gawne<\/a> (School of Oriental and African Studies, London), to be held in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=D.PETERBRO\">Peter Brown Room<\/a> at Darwin College.<\/p>\n<p>April McMahon is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education and Professor of English Language &amp; Linguistics, she will be presenting on her linguistics research. Lauren Gawne runs the generalist linguistic website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superlinguo.com\/\">Superlinguo<\/a>. Her research focuses on gesture and evidentiality, and she will be talking about why and how we need linguistics communicated to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts are currently invited for presentations of 15 minutes in length, following by a five-minute Q&amp;A. All areas of linguistics will be appropriate, including psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, stylistics, syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts should be 300-500 words to give as a brief understanding of your topic. Applications for posters can be done in the same way but remember to click poster instead of presentation on the form, accessible <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/NuHjstVIAqjg9jyJ2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submission is 11pm on Friday <strong>17 March 2017<\/strong>. If you have any questions, please email Lizzy Aum\u00f4nier at: <a href=\"mailto:sea29@kent.ac.uk\">sea29@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ELLSoc at Kent is open to students with a common interest in language, whether students of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a>, or those who simply find words and meaning wonderful. The society hosts discussions over libations, guest speakers, and plenty of socials.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more about the society on their Facebook page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ellsoc\">www.facebook.com\/ellsoc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Language &amp; Linguistics Society (ELLSoc) at Kent Union will be hosting a student conference on Saturday 8 April 2017, with invited speakers Professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/03\/06\/call-for-papers-ellsoc-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}