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<b>Betreff:</b> The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference 2015 Hong Kong University - Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Against the backdrop of one of the most diverse and international cities in the world, we invite language and communication scholars
to take part in an on-going debate of sociolinguistic change under globalization. We are asking two fundamental and interrelated questions: How are we to continue theorizing language and communication under globalization? How can sociolinguistic theory shed
new light on our understanding of globalization?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">The topics of the papers, special interest panels and plenary lectures include, but are not limited to, the following key themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· communities, networks, groups and individuals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· organizations, institutions, collectives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· time and place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· hubs, margins and peripheries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· nodes and trajectories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· work and leisure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· war and peace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· heart and mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· love and hate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· thinking beyond the binaries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· the commodification of social life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· crisis? what crisis?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· occupy and activism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· superdiversity, class, privilege<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· creativity, reproduction, appropriation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· legitimacy, censorship, contestation and (self-) reflexivity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· mobilities, cultures of (im)mobility and displacement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· singularity and normativity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· mediations and mediatizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· embodied and multisensory communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· affect, pleasure, sensuality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· technologies, environments, futures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· art and performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">· rituals and spectacles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b>Plenary Speakers</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>NIKOLAS COUPLAND<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>University of Technology, Sydney and Copenhagen University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>CHRISTOPHER HUTTON<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>MICHELLE LAZAR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>National University of Singapore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>CHRISTOPHER STROUD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>University of the Western Cape<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>KATHRYN WOOLARD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>University of California, San Diego<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><i>Invited Panels</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Dialects and Globalization</span></strong><br>
Organizers: Peter Auer and Barbara Johnstone<br>
University of Freiburg and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Online News</span></strong><br>
Organizers: Allan Bell, Alwin Aguirre and Philippa Smith<br>
Auckland University of Technology and University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Complex Sociolinguistics</span></strong><br>
Organizer: Jan Blommaert<br>
Tilburg University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Language Change in London and Paris</span></strong><br>
Organizers: Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Jenny Cheshire and Maria Secova<br>
Birkbeck University of London, Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck University of London<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">The Local and/or The Global: The Discursive Construction of Imaginaries</span></strong><br>
Organizers: Michał Krzyżanowski and David Machin<br>
Örebro University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Crisis? What Crisis?</span></strong><br>
Organizers: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Philippa Smith<br>
Swansea University and Auckland University of Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Illusions and Delusions of the Centre</span></strong><br>
Organizer: Tope Omoniyi<br>
University of Roehampton London<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Mainstreaming Periphery in Sociolinguistics</span></strong><br>
Organizers: Sari Pietikäinen and Helen Kelly-Holmes<br>
University of Jyväskylä and University of Limerick<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Engaging the World of Language Work/ers</span></strong><br>
Organizer: Crispin Thurlow<br>
University of Bern<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i>Invited Round Table Meeting</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#414143">Englishes in Multilingual Asia</span></strong><br>
Conveners: Katherine Chen and Lisa Lim<br>
University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>We invite abstract submissions for the following types of contributions</b>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>INDIVIDUAL PAPERS and PANELS (to consist of 4–8 individual papers).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em>Panel organisers are responsible for the invitation, abstract selection, and the overall quality of the abstracts. </em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em>Organizers are welcome to post an open call for abstracts for your panel on the conference website to connect with potential authors.</em><i> <em>Please send us an email <</em></i><a href="mailto:slxg2015@hku.hk"><b><span style="color:#414143;text-decoration:none">slxg2015@hku.hk</span></b></a><em>> with
relevant information (panel title, a brief description, and your email for potential authors to contact you directly). </em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>Submission of abstracts</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>All submissions have to be made via our online submission tool: <a href="http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015">
<b><span style="color:#414143;text-decoration:none">http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015</span></b></a>
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<p>Deadline for abstract submission is 30 September 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>Evaluation of proposals</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Abstracts and proposals for individual papers and thematic panels will be evaluated by the Conference Scientific Committee and the Organizing Committee in terms of their quality of content, significance, and thematic relevance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>Conference presentation policy</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Individuals may submit only one abstract as the sole/first author of a paper. In addition, an individual may have a role as a panel organizer, discussant, or co-author/co-presenter of other papers with another presenter as the first-named author.
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<p>All attending/presenting authors of papers in parallel or panel sessions, panel organizers, and attending participants must register for the conference.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>Timescale</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Submission of abstracts opens: 1 July 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Submission of abstracts closes: 30 September 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Notification of acceptance: January 2015<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Registration opens: January 2015<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Conference takes place: 3–6 June 2015<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>Organizing Committee</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The Conference is organized by The School of English, The University of Hong Kong <<a href="http://www.english.hku.hk">www.english.hku.hk</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Katherine Chen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Adam Jaworski (Chair)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Lisa Lim<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Adrian Pablé<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>‘The Sociolinguistics of Globalization 2015’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>School of English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Pokfulam Road<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></p>
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