CALL FOR PAPERS: 16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, May 6-8, 2010 @ UCLA

[Heather Loyd]

Please distribute the following Call for Papers widely to colleagues  
and students interested in the study of language, interaction, and  
culture. Feel free to contact us at clicgsa at humnet.ucla.edu with  
questions.


CALL FOR PAPERS

16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
May 6-8, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles

Presented by:

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student  
Association (CLIC-GSA)
at the University of California, Los Angeles

and

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student  
Association (LISO-GSA)
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers

Charles Briggs
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Kramsch
German, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Kroskrity
Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Tanya Stivers
Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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.
Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate  
students and
faculty. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of  
naturalistic
interaction are encouraged. 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, Crossroads of Language,  
Interaction,
and Culture, Volume 8, 2010.

Abstracts are due no later than January 15, 2010, by electronic  
submission only. The
submission guidelines are provided below and on the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/abstractsubmit.htm).

Please provide the following information:
- Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for  
notification
- The title of the paper
- Any equipment requirements
- An abstract no longer than 500 words
- Any additional comments

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. You may include  
a short
example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be  
stated,
however tentative.

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.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is January 15, 2010.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or  
nonacceptance
will be sent via e-mail in March 2010.
Conference registration is free at the CLIC-GSA website:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/registration.htm


Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student  
Association (CLIC-GSA)
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Applied Linguistics
P.O. BOX 951531 3300 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531
clicgsa at humnet.ucla.edu
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic