We are delighted to announce the call for papers for our 2017 International PhD Forum on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics to be held May 6-7 2017 by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) in the city of Guangzhou, China. 

        The meeting, organized by the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (CLAL), will be held at north campus of GDUFS, situated right at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, a major tourist attraction and a Guangzhou landmark. For one and a half days we will enjoy keynote talks ranging from second language learning through language and communication and Chinese sentence processing to developing Chinese standards of English, together with mini-talks by PhD candidates. There will be plenty of opportunities for socializing, sightseeing, and, of course, many lively discussions about linguistics and applied linguistics.

         We also have Excellence scholarships to honor excellent presentations by student speakers, who made significant contributions to our understanding of linguistics. We will have six awardees, each of whom will receive an honorarium based on internal ratings from expert committee.

         We look forward to seeing you in Guangzhou!

Conference Theme

We welcome proposals related (but not limited) to the following topics:                  

□Second Language Acquisition

□Psycholinguistics

□Language Testing

□Lexicography

□Neurolinguistics

□Computational Linguistics

□Quantitative Linguistics

□Pragmatics

□Sociolinguistics

□Forensic Linguistics

□Formal Linguistics

□Cognitive Linguistics

□Functional Linguistics

Keynote Speakers                          

- Prof. Jianda LIU (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)         

           Developing China's Standards of English      

- Prof. Kang Kwong LUKE (Nanyang Technological University )         

           Talking, Thinking and Doing things: A unified approach to the study of language and communication         

- Prof. Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University )

           Limits on Success in Second Language Learning

- Prof. Fuyun WU (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)                  

           Processing Chinese Topic Sentences

Abstract Submission

-The medium of the conference is English.         

- Online registration and submission (abstract_template.docx)

Key Dates                

Abstract submission deadline: Extended to April 8, 2017 

Notification of paper acceptance: April 15, 2017

Deadline for online registration: May 1, 2017

Conference registration: May 5, 2017                  

Conference dates: May 6-7, 2017