<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic"">18<sup>th</sup> Annual</span></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic"">Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture</span></b></p><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<h2>May 10-12, 2012</h2>
<h2>University of California, Los Angeles</h2><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">Presented by</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA) at the University of California, Los Angeles</span></p><p align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center" class="MsoBlockText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">and</span></p><p align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center" class="MsoBlockText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association (LISO-GSA) </span></p><p align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center" class="MsoBlockText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">at the University of California, Santa Barbara</span></p><div style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center" class="MsoBlockText"><b><i><u>Plenary Speakers</u></i></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Penelope Eckert</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho""> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Anthropology and Linguistics, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Stanford</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">University</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">William Hanks</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho""> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Anthropology</span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho"">University of California, Berkeley</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Jenny Mandelbaum</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho""> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Communication</span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho"">Rutgers University</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Cheryl Mattingly</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho""> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">Anthropology and Occupational Science and Therapy</span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic";
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"">University of Southern California</span></p><div style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="left" style="margin-top:4.0pt;text-align:left" class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language socialization.</span></p><div style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="left" style="text-align:left;mso-list:none;
mso-list-ins:"Netta Avineri" 20071202T2327" class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students and faculty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of naturalistic interaction are encouraged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. A subset of papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture, Volume 9, 2012</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic"">Abstracts are due no later than <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Friday,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">January 20, 2012</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">by</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">electronic submission only</b>. The<span style="color:purple"> </span>submission guidelines are provided below and on the CLIC-GSA website <a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/">(http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/).</a></span></p><div><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:46.0pt" class="MsoFooter"><span style="mso-ignore:vglayout;position:
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</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:46.0pt" class="MsoFooter"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA)</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:46.0pt" class="MsoFooter"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Applied Linguistics </span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:46.0pt" class="MsoFooter"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">P.O. BOX 951531 3300 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:6.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic""><a href="mailto:clicgsa@humnet.ucla.edu">clicgsa@humnet.ucla.edu</a> </span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:46.0pt" class="MsoFooter"><tt><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:blue"><a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/">http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/</a></span></u></tt></p>
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<h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</span></h3><div><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website (<a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/callforpapers.htm">http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/callforpapers.htm</a><span style="color:black">)</span>. Please provide the following information:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><div><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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<li><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">The name(s) of the author(s) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";">The affiliation(s) of the author(s)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";">The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for notification</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">The title of the paper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";">An abstract no longer than 500 words </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";">Any additional comments </span><br>
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</ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper; briefly discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous research and the work’s relevance to developments in the field; and may include a short example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be stated, however tentative. </span></p><div><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed by scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology, applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters will be accepted based on reviewers’ evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.</span></p><div><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Friday, January 20, 2012<span style="color:purple">.</span></b> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">Late submissions will not be accepted.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""> Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via e-mail in March 2012.</span></p><div><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic"">Conference registration is free and will be accessible at the CLIC-GSA website:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic""><a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/registration.htm">http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/registration.htm</a></span></p><div><br></div></div>
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