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TitleCall for Papers: Language and Global Communication Conference, Wales
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Call Deadline: 29-Oct-2004

The Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University
will hold a conference in Cardiff from 7-9 July 2005.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
- Bryan S. Turner, Cambridge University, UK
- Monica Heller, University of Toronto, Canada
- Jan Blommaert, Ghent University, Belgium
- Clare Mar-Molinero, Southampton University, UK
- John Urry, Lancaster University, UK

The conference will bring together scholars working with language and global
communication across all fields of inquiry. Anticipating innovative,
challenging contributions, we welcome proposals from sociolinguistics,
linguistics, communication, journalism, semiotics, cultural theory and the
social sciences. This is an interdisciplinary conference covering, but not
limited to, such areas as

- Global media
- Shifting flows of communication
- Global and minority languages
- Policy and practices of global institutions and organisations
- Diaspora
- Global tourism
- Multimodality and global communication
- Colonisation and appropriation of communicative forms
- Global health
- Global governance

Submitting proposals
Proposals should be submitted by 29th October 2004. Abstracts should be in
English, and not more than 200 words.

Online submission only at http://www.global.cardiff.ac.uk
Proposals may be for papers: 30 minute sessions including at least 10
minutes for discussion, and/or poster presentations. Proposals for other types
of contribution will also be considered.

For further information please see http://www.global.cardiff.ac.uk
or email LGC2005@cardiff.ac.uk
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