Dear fellow lexicographers
AustraLex is pleased to announce its call for papers for AustraLex 2017. Please
feel free to distribute this widely in your networks.
Best wishes
Julia Miller (AustraLex president)
AustraLex
Australasian Association for Lexicography
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AustraLex 2017: Intersections between oral narratives, traditions, lexicography
and new media
When: Monday 28 August and
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Where: USP Makea Tinirau Rd,
Avarua District, Cook Islands
Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 December 2016
Final notification of acceptance: 31 March 2017 (but early submissions
will be reviewed as they arrive)
Keynote speakers: In progress
Webpage: Please visit the
AustraLex<http://www.adelaide.edu.au/australex/> website for updates
Call for Papers
The theme for AustraLex 2017 is ‘Intersections between oral narratives,
traditions, lexicography and new media’. Papers may address a wide range of
areas associated with lexicography, including, but not limited to: contact
linguistics; culture and identity; e-lexicography; endangered languages;
learners’ dictionaries; lexicology; music and language; onomastics; oral
traditions and language; phraseology; paremiology; Revival Linguistics; social
empowerment through language; specialist dictionaries; and terminology.
If you would like to submit a paper or a poster, please upload an abstract of
no more than 300 words in a Word document to
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/AustraLex2017<http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/AustraLex2017%20>
by 31 December 2016. Abstracts may include up to 5 references, but references
are not compulsory. The reference list at the end of the abstract will not be
included in the word count. Final notification of acceptance will be sent out
by 31 March 2017, but early submissions will be reviewed more quickly and
authors will be notified as soon as possible. Please name your file: Family
name_Title.
Student bursaries
Up to two student bursaries are available to assist students from Australia and
New Zealand to attend the conference and present a paper. Applicants must be
full-time students in an Honours degree or a higher degree research program.
Each applicant must supply a 2 page prospectus of their intended presentation
(including results) along with the standard 300-word abstract. A cover note
from their supervisor/head of school must be included with each application.
Please contact the Secretary<mailto:m.c.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxx> for further
details.
We look forward to welcoming you to AustraLex 2017 on the island of
Rarotonga in the beautiful Cook Islands.
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