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GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY
Amritsar, Punjab
India

International Seminar on Contemporary Trends in Language, Discourse, and Culture Studies January 20-21, 2007 & Workshop on Systemic Functional Linguistics January 15-19, 2007

(Please see the following website for course description.)

http://web.mac.com/cmatthie/iWeb/SMMG_resources/Amritsar_2007_Course.html

Organized by Department of English Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Punjab(INDIA) In collaboration with Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, Hyderabad

Language, because of the multiplicity of its function, has a fugue-like quality in which a number of themes unfold simultaneously; each of these themes is apprehended in various settings, or perspectives, and each melodic line in the syntactic sequence has more than one value in the whole. -M.A.K. Halliday

Language, Discourse, and Culture are the key issues in recent academic research on linguistic communication and literature. Linguistic, literary and communication studies have transcended their conventional boundaries that have long divided semiotics from pragmatism. Both as perspective and methodology, discourse is in the center stage of research on language and culture interface, and the focus is on the workings of language ideology in relation to other social processes. The studies show in specific detail how language ideologies underpin cultural issues, including art and culture.

As a sequel to the contemporary thrust on systemic and interdisciplinary approaches, the Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab (INDIA) is organizing an International Workshop on Systemic Functional Linguistics 15-19 January, 2007 & Seminar on Contemporary Trends in Language, Discourse, and Culture Studies 20-21 January 2007.

Professor Christian Matthiessen, Chair, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney has consented to deliver lectures at the workshop and present the key note address at the seminar. Dr.Maria Herke-Couchman (Sydney), Dr. V. Prakasam (Hyderabad), Bernard Mahon (Canada), Maria Martinez Lirola (Spain) will also deliver lectures and present their papers.

Papers addressing aspects of the conference theme are encouraged but papers dealing with any aspect of systemic functional linguistics as well as those dealing with various dimensions of literary theory will be welcome.

Suggested sub-topics:
a. Language and Literary studies
b. Language and Media
c. Language and Literacy
d. Language and Gender/ Class
e. Postcolonial Discourses
f. Language and Power

Those who are interested in attending the workshop and/or seminar may apply on the enclosed form by November 30, 2006.

Those who wish to present their papers are invited to send the abstracts of their papers by December 10, 2006.

Delegate fee:

Indian and South Asian Participants: Rs.1200/ for workshop and Rs.800/ for seminar
Foreign Participants from other countries: US$ 100 for workshop and US$ 80 for seminar
Indian Participants who are members of ISFLA (INDIA) will pay half of the delegate fee.
Delegate fee will cover Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

We shall provide moderate lodging facility at the university. However hotel accommodation will be arranged if required on payment. The tariff for hotel rooms varies from 1000 to 2200 rupees.

Although we shall not be able to pay T.A./D.A to every participant, we shall pay second class railway fare to those who will not be sponsored by their institutions.

The paper presenters and those who will be invited to chair a session will be paid 2-tier A.C. fare within India.

Contact Addresses Sukhdev SinghDirectorWorkshop- Seminar 2007Department of EnglishG.N.D. University, Amritsar -143005Punjab IndiaE-MAIL: sukhgndu@gmail.comMobile: 91 93560 37655 Yubee GillSecretaryWorkshop- Seminar 2007Department of EnglishG.N.D. UniversityAmritsar-143005INDIAe-mail: yubeegillasr@yahoo.com. Phone: 0183 2450600

Organizing Committee

B.L. Chakoo, Rita Choudhary, S.K. Bhatia, Gurupdesh Singh, P.S Sharma, Anil Tewari, Ramandeep Singh, Parminder Singh, Harbir Singh Mankoo, Manbir Singh Bhullar, Sumneet Kaur, Divya Kalia, Bindiya Bhalla

Form
International Seminar on Contemporary Trends in Language, Discourse, and Culture Studies
January 20-21, 2007 &
Workshop on Systemic Functional Linguistics January 15-19, 2007

Name:
Address:
Phone no.
e-mail:
Affiliation (institution):
Participation : (a) Workshop (b) Seminar (c) both
Whether presenting paper in seminar: Yes/ No
Title of the proposed paper:
Delegate fee:
DD/CHEQUE No.
Date:
Date(s) and Time of Arrival & Departure:
Accommodation required: Yes/ No (Indicate if special hotel accommodation required)
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