An International Conference on Linguistic Communication

North-Eastern Federal University

Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation

May 14 - 15, 2014

The Linguistic Society of the North East is pleased to announceour international conference on linguistic communication. The conference will be heldat the North-Eastern Federal University located in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation. The official language of the conferenceis English.

Content Areas

1.      Syntax, Semantics

2.      Phonetics, Phonology, Historical Linguistics

3.      Text and Discourse

4.      Cognitive Linguistics

5.      Language Translation

6.      Language Teaching

Submission Guidelines

n The deadline for submission of presentation proposals:March 31, 2014.

nNotification of workshop presentation acceptance: April 15, 2014.

nThe program of the conference and the abstracts will be available ONLINE in May 1, 2014.

Abstracts should be no longer than two pages of A4, with 2.5cm or oneinch margins, single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12 (Times New Roman), andwith normal character spacing. An additional page may be used for data and references. Full papers will last around 15 minutes with around 5 minutes for questions. Please specify the preferred area of your presentation in your abstract.

Submitted abstracts should beanonymous. You should include your name, affiliation and

e-mail in a separate file. Submitted abstracts should be sent tointer_conf_yakutsk@s-vfu.ru.

Please use one of these formats for your abstract: rtf, Word, pdf,or plain text. If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract,either embed it in a pdf file, or use the Doulos SIL font, which canbe downloaded for free from this site:http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts

The participants presenting papers may stay in a university dormitory, free of charge, during the conference. There is no registration fee for the conference, thanks to the support of the North-Eastern Federal University’s Development Program. There will be an organized tour to several tourist attractions after the conference.