[EDLING:27] CFP: Culture, Language and Social Practice Conference

Francis M. Hult fmhult at DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU
Sun Apr 8 22:27:15 UTC 2007


http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/clasp/conf/cfp.html

CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice

The program in Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP) at the University 
of Colorado at Boulder is pleased to invite submissions to its first graduate 
student-run interdisciplinary conference. Abstracts for 20 minute papers 
covering topics in various areas of sociocultural linguistics are invited for 
either the General Session or the Theme Session (see below) and are due by 
April 15, 2007. For both Sessions, we encourage papers that focus on the broad 
connections between language, culture and society and are grounded in empirical 
research. Examples of possible frameworks or analytic traditions for either 
Session may include, but are not limited to:

Sociolinguistics
Linguistic anthropology
Narrative studies
Critical discourse analysis
Conversation analysis
Language and identity
Discourse pragmatics
Computer-mediated discourse
Ethnography of speaking
Language and literacy
Verbal art and performance
Bilingualism and code-switching
Language globalization
Intercultural communication
Language socialization

*Conference Details:

The conference will take place from Oct 5 - Oct 7, 2007. Our confirmed plenary 
speakers are Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara), Kathy Escamilla 
(Education, University of Colorado), Norma Mendoza-Denton (Anthropology, 
University of Arizona), and Crispin Thurlow (Communication, University of 
Washington). The Friday of the conference will consist of workshops held by 
plenary speakers and CLASP faculty, while Saturday and Sunday will be devoted 
to paper presentations and plenary talks.  The conference website can be found 
at: http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/clasp/conf/

*Theme Session
Papers for the Theme Session should focus on a topic or issue dealing with 
interdisciplinary approaches to doing research on language, society and 
culture. Papers for consideration in the Theme Session may address issues 
dealing with crossing (inter)discipinary boundaries in both theoretical and 
applied research. Possible topics for the Theme Session might include: 
dialogues between linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics; the use of 
feminist and queer conversation analysis; ethnographic approaches to doing 
critical discourse analysis; etc.

*Submission Guidelines
Please email a 500 word abstract to clasp.conference at gmail.com by April 15, 
2007. The abstract should be attached in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text 
(.rtf) format and should contain NO information identifying the author(s) of 
the paper. Abstracts are evaluated on an anonymous basis. In the body of the 
email, please include the following information:

-Name(s) of author(s)
-University or other affiliation(s) of the author(s)
-Email address(es) of the author(s)
-Title of proposed paper
-Whether you'd like to be considered for the General or Themed session
-Equipment requirements
-Any additional comments
-3-5 keywords describing the paper

Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by August 
1, 2007.

*About CLASP

More information about CLASP can be found here: 
http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/clasp/



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