CALL FOR PAPERS: A Conference on Multilingualism in the Past, Present, and Future: Opportunities and Challenges

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CALL FOR PAPERS

A Conference on
Multilingualism in the Past, Present, and Future: Opportunities and Challenges

 Organizers:
College of Foreign Languages and Literature
Wenshen Conference
National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan
Conference Date: November 23-24, 2019
Call for Papers Deadline extended to: Feb. 11, 2019

The College of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Chengchi University (NCCU), together with all of its departments and the Wenshan Conference, is organizing a joint conference on “Multilingualism in the Past, Present, and Future: Opportunities and Challenges.” The conference will take place on 23-24 November 2019 in Taipei, R.O.C.

Conference Theme

We invite scholars and postgraduate students with a research interest in the phenomenon of multilingualism and its centrality to literatures, linguistics, language teaching, cultures, and translation studies. This conference aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines to offer new perspectives on multilingualism through a supra-spatiotemporal scope.

The papers concerned with the following six topics will be preferred:

  • Language and multi-culturalism
  • Language, mind, and brain in a multilingual context
  • Literature and multi-culturalism
  • Multilingualism in Islamic societies
  • TESOL and foreign language education
  • Translation and cross-cultural phenomena

Submission Guideline

An abstract in English or Mandarin Chinese of max. 350 words should be sent to Dr. Su isu@nccu.edu.tw and chingan@nccu.edu.tw, accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae by Feb. 11, 2019. A notification of acceptance will be issued on 15 March 2019. (Dear friends, please feel free to send your abstracts to Prof. cc招靜琪of the English department, cchao@nccu.edu.tw.)

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: Feb. 11, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2019
Conference date: November 23-24, 2019

Other Information

Authors who are invited to present at the conference are encouraged to submit their papers to the scopus-indexed refereed journals published by the College of Foreign Languages and Literature, NCCU.

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Journals by the conference organizer

Enquiry

Should you have any enquiry related to the conference and the abstract submission, please contact isu@nccu.edu.tw or chingan@nccu.edu.tw.

CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP Version 2019/1/18, Wenshan emphasized.)