<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:"SF Optimized",system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.12px">GURT 2018 ANNOUNCES CALL FOR PAPERS!</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"SF Optimized",system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.12px">The Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) on Languages and Linguistics was first held in 1949 and has been held every year since, covering a wide range of topics differing from year to year.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"SF Optimized",system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.12px">GURT 2018 will be held on March 9-11, 2018. The theme for next year’s conference is Approaches to Discourse. We are seeking proposals for individual papers, posters, and colloquia from across approaches to discourse analysis that address any of the<span class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:inherit"> field’s various topical and theoretical foci, types and sources of data, methodological questions, and practical applications.</span></p><div class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:"SF Optimized",system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.12px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit">Plenary speakers will include:<br>Donal Carbaugh - University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br>John Heritage - University of California, Los Angeles<br>Susan Philips - University of Arizona<br>Jürgen Streeck - The University of Texas at Austin<br>Deborah Tannen - Georgetown University<br>Ruth Wodak - Lancaster University</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit">More information about the conference, including submission guidelines, can be found at <a href="https://gurt.georgetown.edu/GURT2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:inherit">https://gurt.georgetown.edu/GURT2018</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit"><b>Deadline for submissions is October 31st, 2017.</b></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit"><img src="cid:ii_15f0bffa05ca2a5d" alt="Inline image 1" width="452" height="452"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit"><br></p></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Nadezhda Sotirova, Ph.D.<br>Communication, Media, & Rhetoric<br>Humanities and Fine Arts 17<br>University of Minnesota Morris<br>Email: <a href="mailto:nsotirov@morris.umn.edu" target="_blank">nsotirov@morris.umn.edu</a></div></div></div></div>
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