8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English

Date: 26-Sep-2019 – 28-Sep-2019

The 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) will be held from 26 to 28 September 2019 at the University of Bamberg (Germany).

The aim of the BICLCE conference is to encourage communication and academic cross-fertilization between researchers working on all aspects of contemporary English and using different theoretical and methodological frameworks. Previous conferences were held in Edinburgh (2005), Toulouse (2007), London (2009), Osnabrück (2011), Austin TX (2013), Madison WI (2015) and Vigo (2017), along the same lines. We aim for the conference in Bamberg to build on the success of its predecessors. BICLCE 2019 provides a platform for work on contemporary varieties of English from various perspectives. Research papers and workshops may address topics in syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, semantics and pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, as well as phonetics and phonology. Purely historical work is less suitable at this conference, but papers that draw upon diachronic evidence to support studies of present-day English are very welcome.

The venues of the next two BICLCE conferences will be:

9 BICLCE: Ljubljana (Slovenia)

10 BICLCE: Alicante (Spain)

Best Junior Paper Awards:

1) Raquel P. Romasanta
2) Aatu Liimatta

Conference Publication:

The book

Perspectives on Contemporary English: Structure, Variation, Cognition,

which contains selected papers from the conference is available now from the publisher:
www.peterlang.com/document/1249548

Contact Person: Katharina Scheiner

Organizing Team: Manfred Krug (chair), Jenny Herzky, Gabriele Knappe, Katrin Landwehr, Heinrich Ramisch, Katharina Scheiner, Julia Schlüter, Ole Schützler, Lukas Sönning, Fabian Vetter, Valentin Werner