The 7^th GDUFS Forum on Applied Linguistics

Call for Papers

The 7^th GDUFS Forum on Applied Linguistics (the forum for short) will be held on December 2-3, 2023 by the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), Guangzhou, P. R. China. The forum invites proposals of about 300 English words or 500 Chinese characters each for panels and presentations that address issues in all areas of linguistics and applied linguistics, such as Phonetics, Phonology, Lexicography, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse, Semiotics, Quantitative Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, (Foreign) Language Teaching, Language Testing, Second Language Acquisition/Development, Teacher Education, Language Philosophy, Translation, etc., with approaches of description, corpus, mathematics and computation, Brain Imaging, among others.

The theme of the 7^th forum is “Language, Computation, and Artificial Intelligence". We will invite distinguished scholars in Quantitative/Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence from across the world for keynote speeches.

Individual presentations will be allocated 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposals for panels should include a chair and a number of thematically-related papers, each of which should be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

All submissions, either English or Chinese or both, should be sent to  alforum2023@163.com, with a title, an abstract, presenters’ names, affiliation(s), address(es), email, and phone number before September 15, 2023. Acceptance of proposal will be notified by email in mid October, 2023. Paper presentation may be either in English or in Chinese.

Abstract Template (Download)

More details about this forum will be announced at https://clal.gdufs.edu.cn/Home.htm.

If you have any question, please contact us at alforum2023@163.com.                

 National Key Research Centre for Linguistics & Applied Linguistics          

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

02/2023