The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) is accepting papers for the first annual Language and Linguistics Student Conference, which will take place on March 28, 2009, on the UCO campus in Edmond, Oklahoma.
All presenters will receive, with their registration, a ticket to a luncheon and access to a "Careers in Language and Linguistics" roundtable presentation and a keynote lecture entitled "Language, Humor, Meaning, Life" by Dr. Victor Raskin of the Department of English at Purdue University.
We welcome undergraduate and graduate research focusing on the relationships between and among language, linguistics, and their many applications. Papers are invited on a wide range of topics including but not limited to natural and artificial languages; extinct and endangered languages, including American Indian languages of Oklahoma; American Sign Language; speech pathology; the relationship between language and cognition; theoretical and applied linguistics; structural, semantic, or phonological analyses of a single language or comparative grammars of multiple languages; discourse/text analysis; and linguistic applications in literature, rhetoric, music, art, film, and gender studies within academic, cultural, or sociological constructs. We are exploring the possibility of publication for the conference presentations.
Presentations will be 15 minutes in length and can take the form of readings or visual presentations, such as PowerPoint or handouts. No poster presentations will be allowed. Authors must currently be undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in at least three credit hours at an accredited college or university or must have graduated with a degree no earlier than May 2008.
To apply, please submit a 150-word, titled abstract in MS Word format as an attachment with no personal information (such as name or institution) to langconf@gmail.com by January 2, 2009. Late submissions are not guaranteed consideration for presentation. Questions regarding the conference, abstracts, or presentations may be directed to the above address as well.
