FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

SEALS XIX
The 19th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

28-29 May 2009

University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City - VIETNAM

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2009

The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society - SEALS - was founded at Wayne State University (in Detroit, Michigan) in 1990.  SEALS holds an annual conference in diverse locations in Southeast Asia, the United States, and Australia. This time, SEALS XIX will be hosted in Vietnam by the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. Abstracts are invited for papers on any topic related to the analysis of Southeast Asian languages, such as descriptive, theoretical, or historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology (ethnolinguistics, language attitudes and ideology, discourse and conversational analysis, language and gender, language and politics), language planning, literacy and bilingual education.

1. Paper format and submission deadline

Abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2009. Abstracts are preferably written using a Unicode font and should consist of two or three pages as follows:

Page 1

Author's name and Paper's title

Abstract body (maximum 400 words). Be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions.

Page 2

References (if any).

Download sample here.

Important Notes: Abstract MUST be followed by the Author's Curriculum Vitae.

An author may submit one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one author should be designated as the contact person. Presentations are allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. All papers at SEALS are presented in English. Papers presented at the meeting will be considered for publication in the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

2. Submission

Abstracts can be submitted by one of the following ways:

--> By email, as email attachments in two formats, .PDF and .DOC, to Dinh Lu Giang, MA, at the following address: <seals19 at vns dot edu dot vn > (replace " at " with "@", "dot" with "."). Please indicate "Abstract for SEALS XIX" in the email subject heading.

--> By web based form, please click here

--> By online uploading submission, please click here.

Notification of acceptance by 1 March 2008.

3. Sponsor:

Faculty of Vietnamese Studies

University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University - HCM City