Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Researchers are invited to submit proposals for individual paper presentations to be considered for inclusion in the conference program. Proposals may address theoretical and empirical research on any aspect of multilingualism or related topics, included but not limited to:

· Educational challenges in a multilingual society

· Linguistic practices (e.g. code-switching and code mixing) in multilingual contexts

· Multilingualism and new technologies

· Language(s) and the law

· Language contact, language variation, and language change

· Language maintenance, standards, and norms in multilingual societies

· Language policy in multilingual societies

· Typical and atypical language development in multilingual contexts

· Multilingualism and cognition

· Linguistic diversity across ethnic and socio-cultural groups

· Public policies in a multilingual society (e.g. access to health care)

· Multilingualism and creativity

· Strategies of multilingual speakers and writers

We encourage proposals dealing with interdisciplinary issues.

Presentations to be included in the program will be selected through a rigorous double-blind review process. Presentations will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and discussion. A special volume on multilingualism across disciplinary borders based on selected papers from the conference is in preparation.

General Requirements

1. Proposals must be submitted in English. Oral presentations can be in Arabic, English, or French.

2. Submissions should be limited to one single-author abstract. There is no limit on co-authored abstracts.

3. Authors are expected to present their own papers and submit proposals for research they have carried out or

which is in progress.

Abstract format and content guidelines

1. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mad2014.

2. Abstracts should be no more than one page in length, with examples/figures/data and references on a second page.

3. Abstracts must be anonymous.

4. Choose a title that clearly indicates the topic of the research.

5. All abstracts should include a brief background, a presentation of the problem/issue/goals, a clear methodology and

argumentation, an explicit description of the evidence and of the analytic or interpretive framework.

A trilingual PDF version of the call for papers can be found here.