<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"> Forwarded From: <a href="mailto:LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org">LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br><br><br>Due to numerous requests, the deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to October 20 2014.<br>
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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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The Sociolinguistics of Globalization:<br>
(De)centring and (de)standardization<br>
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The University of Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2015<br>
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Against the backdrop of one of the most diverse and international cities in the world, we invite language and communication scholars to take part in an on-going debate of sociolinguistic change under globalization. We are asking two fundamental and interrelated questions: How are we to continue theorizing language and communication under globalization? How can sociolinguistic theory shed new light on our understanding of globalization?<br>
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The topics of the papers, special interest panels and plenary lectures include, but are not limited to, the following key themes:<br>
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• communities, networks, groups and individuals<br>
• organizations, institutions, collectives<br>
• time and place<br>
• hubs, margins and peripheries<br>
• nodes and trajectories<br>
• work and leisure<br>
• war and peace<br>
• heart and mind<br>
• love and hate<br>
• thinking beyond the binaries<br>
• the commodification of social life<br>
• crisis? what crisis?<br>
• occupy and activism<br>
• resources<br>
• superdiversity, class, privilege<br>
• creativity, reproduction, appropriation<br>
• legitimacy, censorship, contestation and (self-) reflexivity<br>
• mobilities, cultures of (im)mobility and displacement<br>
• singularity and normativity<br>
• mediations and mediatizations<br>
• embodied and multisensory communication<br>
• affect, pleasure, sensuality<br>
• technologies, environments, futures<br>
• art and performance<br>
• rituals and spectacles<br>
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Plenary Speakers<br>
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NIKOLAS COUPLAND<br>
University of Technology, Sydney and Copenhagen University<br>
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CHRISTOPHER HUTTON<br>
University of Hong Kong<br>
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MICHELLE LAZAR<br>
National University of Singapore<br>
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CHRISTOPHER STROUD<br>
University of the Western Cape<br>
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KATHRYN WOOLARD<br>
University of California, San Diego<br>
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Invited Panels<br>
The following invited panels have been confirmed to date (all titles are provisional):<br>
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Dialects and Globalization<br>
Organizers: Peter Auer and Barbara Johnstone<br>
University of Freiburg and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh<br>
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Online News<br>
Organizers: Allan Bell, Alwin Aguirre and Philippa Smith<br>
Auckland University of Technology and University of Hong Kong<br>
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Complex Sociolinguistics<br>
Organizer: Jan Blommaert<br>
Tilburg University<br>
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Language Change in London and Paris<br>
Organizers: Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Jenny Cheshire and Maria Secova<br>
Birkbeck University of London, Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck University of London<br>
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The Local and/or The Global: The Discursive Construction of Imaginaries<br>
Organizers: Michał Krzyżanowski and David Machin<br>
Örebro University<br>
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Crisis? What Crisis?<br>
Organizers: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Philippa Smith<br>
Swansea University and Auckland University of Technology<br>
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Illusions and Delusions of the Centre<br>
Organizer: Tope Omoniyi<br>
University of Roehampton London<br>
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Mainstreaming Periphery in Sociolinguistics<br>
Organizers: Sari Pietikäinen and Helen Kelly-Holmes<br>
University of Jyväskylä and University of Limerick<br>
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Language@work<br>
Organizer: Crispin Thurlow<br>
University of Bern<br>
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Invited Round Table on ‘Englishes in Asia’<br>
Conveners: Katherine Chen and Lisa Lim<br>
University of Hong Kong<br>
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We invite abstract submissions for the following types of contributions:<br>
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: 25 minutes (with 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for comments and questions).<br>
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PANELS: to consist of 4–8 individual papers.<br>
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Proposals for panels should include (i) one abstract outlining the theme and rationale of the panel and (ii) individual abstracts for all papers to be presented in the panel.<br>
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Abstracts for panels and individual papers should be not more than 300 words, including references. Please also list up to 5 keywords.<br>
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Panel organizers are welcome to post a call for abstracts on the conference website by sending the title and a brief description of the panel to the conference organizers at <<a href="mailto:slxg2015@hku.hk">slxg2015@hku.hk</a>>.<br>
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Submission of abstracts<br>
All submissions have to be made via our online submission tool. The link for online submission of abstracts will be available from 1 July 2014 on the conference website: <a href="http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015" target="_blank">http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015</a><br>
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Evaluation of proposals<br>
Abstracts and proposals for individual papers and thematic panels will be evaluated by the Conference Scientific Committee and the Organizing Committee in terms of their quality of content, significance, and thematic relevance.<br>
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Conference presentation policy<br>
Individuals may submit only one abstract as the sole/first author of a paper. In addition, an individual may have a role as a panel organizer, discussant, or co-author/co-presenter of other papers with another presenter as the first-named author.<br>
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All attending/presenting authors of papers in parallel or panel sessions, panel organizers, and attending participants must register for the conference.<br>
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Timescale<br>
Submission of abstracts opens: 1 July 2014<br>
Submission of abstracts closes: 20 October 2014 (extended)<br>
Notification of acceptance: January 2015<br>
Registration opens: January 2015<br>
Conference takes place: 3–6 June 2015<br>
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Organizing Committee<br>
The Conference is organized by The School of English, The University of Hong Kong <<a href="http://www.english.hku.hk" target="_blank">www.english.hku.hk</a>><br>
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Katherine Chen<br>
Adam Jaworski (Chair)<br>
Lisa Lim<br>
Adrian Pablé<br>
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‘The Sociolinguistics of Globalization 2015’<br>
School of English<br>
The University of Hong Kong<br>
Pokfulam Road<br>
Hong Kong<br>
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email: <a href="mailto:slxg2015@hku.hk">slxg2015@hku.hk</a><br>
website: <a href="http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015" target="_blank">http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------
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