CFP: 5th Biennial Meeting of the Rice Linguistics Society

[Bethany Townsend]

The Rice Linguistics Society invites you to participate in the 5th  
Biennial Meeting of the Rice Linguistics Society, which will be held  
FEBRUARY 8-9, 2013 in Houston, Texas. The theme for this year?s  
meeting is ?Language, Culture, and Cognition.? The keynote speaker for  
this event will be Daniel Everett (Bentley University). Dan Everett is  
best known for his recent book ?Language: The Cultural Tool,? in which  
he challenges long-standing presumptions about the nature of language.  
This year alone, he and his book have been featured in New York Times,  
The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Economist, NPR's ?Weekend  
Edition,? The Guardian, and The Telegraph. In addition, his  
documentary, ?The Grammar of Happiness,? aired on the Smithsonian  
Channel earlier this year and was competitively selected for FIPA 2012  
(International Festival for Audiovisual Programs).


The objective of RLS5 is to bring together scholars from around the  
globe to discuss the latest achievements in the areas of language,  
culture, and cognition. We welcome presentations across a wide variety  
of topics, but the general focus should be grammar, culture,  
cognition, and their intersections. We will be accepting abstracts  
from all linguistic subfields including, but not limited to,  
sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and  
language documentation and description. In addition to these  
linguistic subfields, submissions from the areas of psychology,  
sociology, anthropology, or any other member of the cognitive sciences  
will also be considered; interdisciplinary and functional/usage-based  
work spanning multiple disciplines is especially welcome.


Talks will be scheduled for 20 minutes, with 10 minutes afterwards for  
discussion and questions. Sessions will be organized by topic area.  
Presenters also have the option of displaying their work during the  
poster session. All presenters will then have the opportunity to have  
their work published in the Rice Working Papers in Linguistics (RWPL;  
ISSN 1944-0081).


Submissions: Two abstracts should be submitted; the first of which  
should be 500 words for review and the second should be 150 words for  
publication in the program. Both abstracts are due November 22, 2012  
at 11:59 CST. Submitters will be notified of acceptance status by  
December 1.


Submissions may be done online at  
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/RLS5. For further information,  
contact Bethany Townsend at rls at rice.edu.


Rice Linguistics Society (RLS) is a student-run organization closely  
affiliated with the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. For  
more information about RLS5 and the Rice Working Papers in  
Linguistics, we invite you to visit the RLS website at  
http://rls.rice.edu.