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<p>Please see below (and attached) the call for abstract submissions to the Language, Interaction, and Social Organization conference hosted by UC Santa Barbara next May. The conference theme is "Encounter and Interface."</p>

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<p>Kendra Calhoun</p>

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<p>Department of Linguistics</p>

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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12pt; font-weight:700">THE 23RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION </span></div>

<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12pt; font-weight:700">University of California, Santa Barbara</span></div>

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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt">May 19-20, 2017</span></div>

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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12pt">Presented by:</span></div>

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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt">The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Graduate Student Organization at UCSB</span></div>

<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt">~ &~</span></div>

<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt">The Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC) Graduate Student Association at UCLA</span></div>

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'; font-weight:700">Patricia Baquedano-López

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">UC Berkeley </span>

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'; font-weight:700">Tanya Stivers

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on

 a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The papers primarily employ analysis of naturally occurring data drawing from methodologies that include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnographic methods, ethnomethodology,

 interactional linguistics, and interactional sociolinguistics. The conference theme this year is “Encounter and Interface”.

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">“Encounter” and “interface” here are both broadly defined and inextricably connected. Encounters, ranging from interactions between individual speakers to the intermingling of distinct linguistic

 and cultural systems, now occur through various contexts, both face-to-face and digitally-mediated. How are the ideological underpinnings of these encounters manifested and re-shaped in everyday interaction? How is online language and culture shaping– and

 being shaped by – the norms of face-to-face communication? </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'ArialMT'">●  </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">blending of communicative interfaces (e.g., how is online interaction talked

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'ArialMT'">●  </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">reciprocal influences between types of literacy (e.g., digital, classroom)

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'ArialMT'">●  </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">the influence of technology on student agency in the classroom and at home

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'ArialMT'">●  </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">technology as a language-learning resource

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'ArialMT'">●  </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">the role of embodiment in interaction (face-to-face and online)

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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'ArialMT'">●  </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'">construction(s) of identity through online and face-to-face interaction

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 speakers of varying genders, sexualities, and abilities, or ethnoracial, class, national, and linguistic backgrounds</span></p>

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 Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Communication, Digital Humanities, Education, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, Internet Studies, Literacy Studies, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology.

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 session. If you have a format preference but would like to be considered for both, please indicate that clearly. Presenters will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be displayed during a one-hour poster session.

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</span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt; font-family:'Georgia'; font-weight:700">January 13, 2017.

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