ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#20 | June 10, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in the 19th LSP Symposium to be held from 8-10 July 2013 at the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna.
You are invited to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the conference on the following topics:
· Domain-specific languages (in domains such as law, medicine, business, engineering, etc.)
· Languages for Special Purposes in specific languages, countries, regions of the world
· Professional communication
· Theoretical and methodological issues of LSP research
· LSP teaching and training
· Multilingualism, language policies, and socio-cultural issues of LSPs
· Terminologies in theory and practice
· Corpus-studies for LSP practice and research
· Technical/specialized translation
· Science communication
· Other relevant topics falling under the general scope of the conference
Abstract submission guidelines
Abstracts for oral presentations must be submitted using the online submission form. The abstract should be no longer than 300 words and should be submitted in English.
The on-line submission form will be available on 15th of November 2012. The new deadline for the submission is 5 March 2013 (23:59 CET).
Language policy of the symposium
In general, papers are to be presented in English. We will also accept papers to be presented in German, French, Spanish, and in other languages upon request. In case you want to present in another language than English, you are, nevertheless, asked to submit your abstract in English. This will be needed for the book of abstracts. No interpreting services will be available.
Looking forward to welcoming you (again) in Vienna for LSP 2013!
Gerhard Budin, Conference Chair
Vesna Lušicky, Local Organizing Committee
Languages for Special Purposes in a Multilingual, Transcultural World, Vienna, Austria