After the success of the previous five conferences held in 2007-2015, the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University, is pleased to announce its 6th Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC-6), to be held on
April 1-2, 2019.
The conference is aimed at bringing together regional and international researchers to share research ideas and results in formal linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Keynote speakers:
Robert
Phillipson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is an author and editor of books on linguistic imperialism, language rights, language policy, language rights, and multilingual education.
Jonathan Owens, Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research interests are in Arabic Linguistics, including spoken Arabic (sociolinguistics, dialectology, codeswitching, discourse analysis), the Arabic grammatical tradition, and history of Arabic.
Important dates:
- Abstract submission deadline:
January 6, 2019.
- Notification of acceptance: by
January 31, 2019.
- Program and schedule: by
February 7, 2019.
Please address your questions related to the conference to
lingingulf@qu.edu.qa.