<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>Dear all,<br>
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It's two weeks before the deadline for receipt of abstracts for GURT.<br>
Please find below the conference call for papers. Apologies for<br>
cross-posting.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Didem Ikizoglu<br>
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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GURT 2015<br>
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Diversity and Super-Diversity:<br>
Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives<br>
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington D.C.,<br>
March 13-15, 2015<br>
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<a href="http://units.georgetown.edu/linguistics/gurt/2015/index.html" target="_blank">http://units.georgetown.edu/linguistics/gurt/2015/index.html</a><br>
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The objective of GURT 2015 is to foster and advance a reflection on the<br>
ways in which linguistic and communicative practices are affected by and<br>
contribute to diversity and on the theoretical-methodological challenges<br>
that accounting for such phenomena poses to sociocultural linguistics.<br>
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GURT invites papers that explore the connections between diversity and<br>
linguistic/communicative practices. We are particularly (although not<br>
exclusively) interested in the following topics:<br>
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- The impact of diversity on sociocultural linguistic theory and research<br>
methodologies<br>
- The relationships between diversity and hybridity in linguistic and<br>
semiotic practices<br>
- Challenges and responses to linguistic and cultural diversity in<br>
different institutional and non institutional domains<br>
- Diversity and the construction/negotiation of identities<br>
- The use of linguistic and other semiotic resources within new practices<br>
involving diverse communities<br>
- Language policies and diversity issues in the public space<br>
- Diversity of genres, practices and participation frameworks in mediated<br>
communication<br>
- Diversity and time/space scales<br>
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Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 15, 2014<br>
</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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