Date: 10-12 March 2010

Venue: Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Name of Event: Second International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation

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The Department of English, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, is pleased to announce its second international conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation to be held on 10, 11 and 12 March, 2010.

Call for Papers

The conference will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in the four main disciplines of language, linguistics, literature and translation. As the articulated nature of the (sub)title, Centring the Marginal, Stretching the Boundaries, suggests, the theme will highlight two processes in a redefinition of our disciplines:

- research and debate in areas which are traditionally seen as being at the margins of our concern yet which can be seen as having a potentially significant, central role;

- research and debate which extends the limits of our concern into new areas, possibly through collaboration with related disciplines.

Language

Language, Culture and Communication

Language and the Media

Language in Unequal Social Encounters

New Technologies and Language

Linguistics

New Frameworks in Language Analysis

Language Change

Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language

Globalization and Language Policy

Literature

Literatures in English

Literature in Translation/Comparative Literature

Children's Literature

Frameworks for Literary Analysis

Translation

Role of Theory in Translation Practice

Ideology and Translation

Translation Quality Assessment

Translation and Technology

Proposals are invited for papers (40 minutes) and brief presentations followed by a led discussion (40 mins). The conference will also include themed forums led by a moderator. Proposals should be submitted on the proposal form (available from the email address below) by Monday, 30 November, 2009.

Email: SQUconference@yahoo.com

Tel.: +968 24143277 or +968 95261544 Fax: +968 24413024

Postal address: The Conference Committee, English Dept, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 42, Al Khodh, PC123, Sultanate of Oman.