[Linganth] SALSA Conference Call for Papers: If you could distribute?

[Kelsie L Gillig]

SALSA XXVI:

Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity

*April 20-21, 2018 *

*The University of Texas at Austin*


*Keynote Speakers: TBA*

The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual
symposium promoting the study of language and its intersection with
society. Originally created through the joint efforts of students from the
Linguistics, Anthropology, and Communication Studies Departments at The
University of Texas, SALSA has developed into an interdisciplinary
conference with contributions from various fields, including foreign
language education, educational psychology, media studies, and language
departments, including French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, German, and
English. Our conference annual proceedings appear in special editions of
Texas Linguistic Forum.

This year’s conference theme is Language in Society: Culture, Space, and
Identity. Language is a distinctly human characteristic, central to all
human social organization. It is the medium through which humans shape
their identities, relate to one another, and construct social realities. The
conference will focus on the ways speakers from diverse sociohistorical and
cultural backgrounds use language to negotiate their identities in
particular spaces. We welcome both diachronic and synchronic perspectives
for the study of language in society.


We encourage papers that address questions such as:

   - In what manner do different linguistic identities interact and evolve?
   - How are identities developed and expressed in different social
   situations?
   - How do language ideologies influence social behavior?
   - What rhetorical and poetic resources in language reflect particular
   linguistic or cultural groups?
   - How can particular linguistic traditions and forms help us understand
   the nexus of  language, culture, and the individual?
   - How do varying notions of space and place interact with language?
   - How do technological spaces provide new linguistic opportunities?
   - How do linguistic landscapes play a role in situations of language
   contact?
   - How can languages be revived, revitalized, and/or maintained through
   language policies and planning?
   - In what ways do social media and other forms of mass media impact
   language use and change?
   - How does political discourse transform societies?
   - How can we use language to analyze the ideological underpinnings that
   shape and sustain the existence of borders?
   - How can emerging political scenarios, such as Catalonia vis a vis
   Spain, inform us about the relationship between language, community and
   identity?

The committee of SALSA XXVI welcomes papers from all disciplines; potential
topics might fall under the following areas:

   - Language and social interaction
   - Gesture and embodiment
   - Language and cognition
   - Language ideologies
   - Sign language studies
   - Language attitudes
   - Verbal art and speech play
   - Language in the media
   - Language and advertising
   - Language and technology
   - Language policy and planning
   - Linguistic landscaping studies
   - Interactive construction of meaning
   - Language preservation, documentation, and revitalization
   - Language acquisition, shift, and loss
   - Bi-/multi-lingualism
   - Languages in contact
   - Pidgins and creoles
   - Language and law, politics, and economics
   - Linguistic and cultural identity –
   - nationality, gender, race, &  sexuality

These topics are meant to serve as guideposts. Please feel free to submit
papers on other topics related to this year’s theme.

Submission Guidelines

The deadline for abstract submission is January 14, 2018.

Please send 300 to 500 words abstracts to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com

Subject: SALSA XXVI Abstract

Please include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract
(with the exception of title, which should appear in both):



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For more information, see https://linguistics.github.io/salsa/index.html

Questions can be sent to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com

Co-Chairs

Conference presented by the SALSA Graduate Student Organization at
UT-Austin.

Katie E. Bradford (Communication Studies)

Kristie G. Denlinger (Linguistics)

Kelsie L. Gillig (Anthropology)

Cristian R. Juárez (Linguistics)

Raul A. Martinez/Quichi Patlan (Anthropology)

Rozen Neupane (French and Italian)

SALSA

University of Texas at Austin

Department of Linguistics

College of Liberal Arts Building (CLA) 4.304

Phone: (512) 471-1701

Email: salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
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