<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues, </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
We are happy to announce <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">GURT</span> 2015, which will take place at Georgetown University in Washington DC,  March 13-15.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Please visit our website</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Apologies for Cross-postings</div><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(25,7,7);letter-spacing:1.1pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(25,7,7)">GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington D.C.,</span></b></p><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(25,7,7)">March 13-14-15, 2015</span></b></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(25,7,7)"> </span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://units.georgetown.edu/linguistics/gurt/2015/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">http://units.georgetown.edu/linguistics/<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)">gurt</span>/2015/index.html</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(25,7,7)"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The objective of <u><span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">GURT</span> 2015</u> is to foster and advance a reflection on the ways in which linguistic and communicative practices are affected by and contribute to diversity and on the theoretical-methodological challenges that accounting for such phenomena poses to sociocultural linguistics.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">GURT</span> invites papers that explore the connections between diversity and linguistic/communicative practices. We are particularly (although not exclusively) interested in the following topics:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>The impact of diversity on sociocultural linguistic theory and research methodologies</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>The relationships between diversity and hybridity in linguistic and semiotic practices</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>Challenges and responses to linguistic and cultural diversity in different institutional and non institutional domains</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>Diversity and the construction/negotiation of identities</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>The use of linguistic and other semiotic resources within new practices involving diverse communities</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>Language policies and diversity issues in the public space</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>Diversity of genres, practices and participation frameworks in mediated communication</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">      </span></span>Diversity and time/space scales</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Deadline for submission of abstracts</b>: October 15, 2014</p><br>Anna De Fina<br>Professor, Italian Language and Linguistics<div>Affiliated Faculty, Linguistics Department<br>
Italian Department<br>ICC 306J<br>Georgetown University<br>37&O ST. NW<br>Washington DC 20015<br>tel.1- 2026875625<br><a href="https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/definaa/" target="_blank">https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/definaa/</a></div>
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