<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Peterson, Elizabeth <<a href="mailto:elizabeth.peterson@helsinki.fi">elizabeth.peterson@helsinki.fi</a>> Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:59 AM Subject: DiPVaC4, University of Helsinki, 28-30 May 2018 To: <<a href="mailto:DIPVAC@jiscmail.ac.uk">DIPVAC@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>> </div> <div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"> <div class="gmail_msg">CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS AND SAVE THE DATE</div> <div class="gmail_msg"> Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) is a biennial international conference series which was devised to further the quantitative analysis of variation and change at the level of discourse-pragmatics. DiPVaC4 will be held from May 28 to 30, 2018, at the University of Helsinki. The confirmed plenarists are: Yael Maschler, University of Haifa Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki Heike Pichler, Newcastle University The first call for papers will go out in the spring of 2017. In the meantime, we invite proposals for workshops to be held at DiPVaC4. Workshops must be hands-on and offer participants new methods, tools and/or applications for corpus-based, quantitative analyses of discourse-pragmatic variation and change. Proposals must be submitted by e-mail to the conference organizer, Elizabeth Peterson (<a href="mailto:Elizabeth.peterson@helsinki.fi" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Elizabeth.peterson@helsinki.fi</a>), and will be evaluated by the DiPVaC steering committee according to originality and impact. Proposals must include the following information: 1. Details of workshop organizer(s) (and facilitators), including names, affiliations, e-mail addresses and a short description of research expertise 2. Workshop title 3. Workshop length (maximum 3 hours including breaks) 4. Room/technical requirements (e.g. computer lab, seminar room) 5. Workshop description and delivery format (max. 500 words) Proposal submission deadline: January 16, 2017 Notification of acceptance: February 17, 2017 Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki, Elizabeth </div> <div class="gmail_msg"> <div class="gmail_msg">Elizabeth Peterson, PhD</div> <div class="gmail_msg">University Lecturer, English Philology</div> <div class="gmail_msg">Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki</div> </div> </div> </div>