Call for papers: the European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes (LSP) 2013

The European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes (LSP) 2013 is going to take place in Vienna, Austria, from 8 to 10 July 2013. The following topics, among others, are going to be dealt with:

• Languages for Special Purposes in different languages, countries and regions of the world
• Theoretical and methodological issues of LSP research
• Multilingualism, language policies and socio-cultural issues of LSPs

The deadline for the submission of oral presentations is February 12th, 2013.

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Commission under fire over language policy!

Nikiforos Diamandouros, the European ombudsman, has criticised the European Commission for refusing to conduct public consultations in the 23 official languages of the European Union.  In a decision published last week (11 October), Diamandouros found that the Commission's practice of launching public consultations in only a few EU languages constituted maladministration.

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