CFP: Workshop on Language, Interaction and Social Relations

[Jack Sidnell]

CFP: Workshop on Language, Interaction and Social Relations
April 7th-10th, 2011
University of Toronto, Mississauga

Invited plenary speakers

Phillip Angermeyer
York University

Galina Bolden
Rutgers University

Michael Lempert
University of Michigan

Danielle Pillet-Shore
University of New Hampshire

Local Organizing Committee:
Faculty: Frank Cody, Jennifer Jackson, Alejandro Paz, Jack Sidnell
Students: Lynda Chubak, Sara Maida-Nicol, Lorna Pitre, Ross Krekoski, Tanya Romaniuk, Zoe Wool.

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice-Dean Graduate (UTM), Department of Anthropology (UTM).

This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship focused on the intersection of language form, interactional structure and social relations. Possible frameworks or analytic traditions may include, but are not limited to:

Conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics.

We welcome abstracts from graduate students and faculty working in the areas of Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Education, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology. Submissions should address one of the four workshop sub-themes: (1.) Interactional openings, (2.) Addressing the other, (3.) Oratory and public address, (4.) Translation and translators -Mediators in interaction

Abstracts must be submitted in .doc, .pdf, or .txt, format. Abstracts must be no more than 500 words long and should not include the author's name or any other identifying information. Papers will be selected based on evaluation of the anonymous abstract. Deadline for submission and receipt of abstracts is February 7th, 2011. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email no later than February 21st, 2011.

Submissions should be sent as attachments to an email to the following address:

Lisrconference at gmail.com

The body of the email should contain the following information:

Author name(s)
Affiliation(s)
Paper Title
Proposed sub-theme

For additional information, please visit:

Lisrconference at gmail.com