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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Apologies for any cross-posting - here is a date for your diaries and a first call for papers for the:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b>- </b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;"><b>iMean 5 Conference, UWE Bristol, 6- 8 April 2017</b> (with pre-conference Workshops on 5 April) on </span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Language and Change</span></b></p>
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;">Papers are invited for the iMean5 conference to be held at the University of the West of England, Bristol, 6- 8
April 2017. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;">The fifth iMean conference maintains its traditional focus on meaning in social interaction, with a thematic orientation to<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;">Language
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Invited plenary speakers (confirmed):</span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b>Gisle Andersen,</b> University of Bergen</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; color: windowtext;"><b>Christine Béal</b>, </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b>Jenny Cheshire</b>, Queen Mary, University of London</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b>Michael Haugh</b>, University of Queensland</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b>Barbara Johnstone</b>, Carnegie Mellon University</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b>Zuraidah Mohd Don</b>, University of Malaya</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">We will be considering changes at the linguistic level but also how changes at a societal level affect linguistic usage and our conceptions and analysis of it. Our increasingly interconnected and fast-moving
world has led to an upsurge in mobility and to the possibility of greater variation and change in language use. The linguistically diverse nature of contemporary societies has implications for social justice, with potentially differential access to the public
sphere. Different contexts of use and new media may also bring new styles and manners of expression. As society changes, so must our conceptual and epistemological models and old questions and concepts require new approaches and angles. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">The conference welcomes papers which focus on <b>Language and Change, </b>on norms and/or shifts in language usage and, more generally, on theoretical and methodological developments in research on sociopragmatics.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">iMean5 aims to take a critical approach to current conceptions of ‘language and change’, focused around (but not restricted to) the following themes:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">the impact of globalisation, population mobility, the growth of cities
and multiethnolects and the interrelation of language choice, language use and social justice;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">how identities (regional, class, gender, ethnic and so on) are constructed
and negotiated in and through language and how these shift from one community to another;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">theory/ method aiming to forge new understandings of social class and
gender identities in the 21<sup>st</sup> century and how we incorporate these in linguistic research;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">language change at phonological, syntactic, semantic or discourse levels
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">the impact of new media on linguistic usage.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;">In line with the iMean tradition, the conference aims to encourage multidisciplinary thinking and to create new pathways in linguistic research.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">The conference will, as usual, include two specialist Colloquia, an <i>Atelier AFLS</i> and a summative Round Table at which the keynote speakers are invited to debate the conference theme.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Invited Colloquia</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">iMean 5 will host two invited colloquia.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Language migration and change</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Convened by Jo Angouri</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">“Just how sorry are you, mate?” Norms and Variations in im/polite language
behaviour. Convened by Kate Beeching and James Murphy</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Participants who would like to present in <b>French</b> or present specifically French data are invited to join the <b>Atelier AFLS</b> which will take place as part of the conference.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Round table</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">:
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Submission Details:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Panel Proposals:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Panel proposals are invited by 1 December 2016. Decisions about panels will be made by 15 December. Panel organisers should oversee abstracts from panel members, with up to 6 papers in a panel (2 X 90 minute
slots). Individual panel members should submit abstracts, clearly marked with Panel names, to the main conference email address by 5 January 2017 as below. All abstracts (in panels and the main conference) will be subject to double blind review as always.
For information on panel proposals please contact the organisers (<a href="mailto:J.Angouri@warwick.ac.uk">J.Angouri@warwick.ac.uk</a> and Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk).</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Abstracts </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">of no more than 350 words (max and including references, if absolutely necessary) are invited. They should be submitted to <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imean2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imean2017</a>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 5 January 2017. Abstracts should not include the name and affiliation of the author(s). If your submission is part of a Panel, or the Atelier AFLS, or you would like
to propose your paper as part of one of the Colloquia, please state this clearly at the top of your submission.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">Further details will be published on the iMean website soon. Go to: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/bristolcentreforlinguistics/i-mean.aspx</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;">In the meantime, don’t hesitate to contact Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk or J.Angouri@warwick.ac.uk for further information.</span></p>
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