LEXVIN 2009

Call for papers

FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP "Linguistics Approaches to Food and Wine Description"

The linguistic description of the tasting experience provides for excellent arena where the complexities of this type of verbalization can be analyzed and studied. A multisensory and interdisciplinary approach is needed in the coding and decoding of the food and wine sensory descriptions. Because of this, the present workshop provides an opportunity for a joint examination of sensory analysis and to the evaluation of the role that different linguistic approaches can take when dealing with this type of restricted lexicons. Finally, the development of lexical applications related to the world of food and wine description is expected to show how the industry and this field-dependent semantic research can benefit from a mutual collaboration.

LEXVIN, the UNED based research group is pleased to announce the FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on "Linguistics Approaches to Food and Wine Description" to be held at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid (Spain) on May 7-8, 2009.

This International Workshop is proud to host the following distinguished speakers: Carita Parais (University of Växjö). Adrienne Lehrer (University of Arizona) Ricardo Mairal (UNED) The workshop will concentrate on  the following areas: - Use of cognitive approaches in food and wine description - Semiotics - Intercultural Studies - Sociolinguistics - Pragmatics - Discourse Analysis - Corpus Linguistics - Lexicology and Computer Studies - Language for Specific Purposes

Important dates - - 15 March: Abstracts of a maximum of 500 words,( figures and references apart) must be submitted no later than 15th of March 2009. - 30 March: Acceptance of proposals - 15 April: Full papers, camera ready for proceedings

Paper's format -- 20 minutes presentations / 6 pages

Official languages --- Spanish and English

Organizing Committee - Beatriz Rodriguez López (UNED) Maika Guarddon Anelo (UNED) Raquel Varela Méndez (UNED) Ernesto Suarez Toste ( UCLM) Margarita Goded Rambaud (UNED)

Publication - Proceedings will be published by the UNED

http://www.lexvin.com/workshop.html This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP