We have a small number of places available at this conference, due to
late withdrawals. Registration and details are available at:
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/cele/conferen.htm
and
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/cele/confdet.htm
I paste further details below:
The programme includes over fifty papers in three strands (applied
linguistics, literature, and linguistic/literary theory). These are
framed by our international speakers:
Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University
Plenary:
'Literacy and linguistic specialization: Synchronic and diachronic
evidence concerning the linguistic correlates of literacy'
Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham
Plenary:
'Commonly creative language: Talking to each other now'
Wallace Chafe, University of California at Santa Barbara
Plenary:
'Reading Aloud'
Steven Connor, Birkbeck College, London
Plenary:
'What I say goes'
Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham
Plenary:
'Spoken and written grammars, commonality and difference'
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
Plenary:
'The Relation between Conversational and Literary Discourse: A
Comparison of the Fiction and Conversational Narrative of a Modern
Greek Writer'
Conference highlights also include a panel discussion:
'Conversation, Context and Grammar' led by Geoffrey Leech, University
of Lancaster, and including four of the guest speakers.
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Dr Rebecca Hughes
Deputy Director
Centre for English Language Education
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/cele/hmpge.htm
Direct line: (0)115 9514893
Fax: (0) 115 9514992
International conference on speech, writing and context,
literary and linguistic perspectives, July 16-19 1998:
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/cele/conferen.htm