Research Center of Ethnic and Language Relations
of the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Foreign Languages
hereby announces an international conference
"Language and Society on the Threshold
of a New Millennium:
Results and Prospects"
Moscow, Tuesday, October 23 - Friday, October 26 2001
President of the Organizing Committee: Prof. Vida Mikhalchenko
The following issues are expected to be discussed: Social linguistics: theory, methods and basic notions Language situation and language politics throughout the world Language legislation: concepts, implementation and change Language contacts, bilingualism and code-switching Functioning of languages; functional classification
of languages of the world Endangered languages Modern methods of sociolinguistics Language conflicts and their causes Language and culture Sociolinguistic prognostication Sociolinguistic aspect of education International languages: social requirements, teaching
and functioning The sociolinguistic aspects of terminology
Working languages: Russian, English.
Registration form:
Title of the paper:
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The deadline for submitting abstracts of up to 600 words (MS WORD *.rtf format, please!),
which are expected to be published before the conference, is May 15, 2001. Since then we won't accept any more abstracts.
. Attention! Registration fee for colleagues from Eastern Europe has been changed to $20. Contact Information:
Postal Address: 1/12 Bolshoy Kislovsky per., Moscow 103009, Russia E-mail: socioling@mail.ru Web page: http://socioling.narod.ru Fax: (007)-(095) 290-0528 Tel: (007)-(095) 290-5268, 290-4611
Social linguistics: theory, methods and basic notions