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<font color="#000000" face="Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Please let me know if you are interested in contributing a paper to an upcoming AAA panel (2015, Colorado) on linguistic relativity, as described below. There are still a few slots
available, with a possible conference in the works in the near future. Currently, we have papers on (1) time and reference in Chol Maya; (2) conceptual structure in Mandarin discourse; (3) the role of emotional attachment and indigenous worldviews in language
revitalization; (4) Whorfian perspectives on racism in everyday language, with consequences for routine perception and action. We would welcome further submissions. The panel will be co-chaired by Michael Silverstein, with Jocelyn Ahlers as a discussant. </font></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Best wishes,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Sean O'Neill</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Sean.P.O-Neill-1@ou.edu <mailto:Sean.P.O-Neill-1@ou.edu></span></div>
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Linguistic Relativities in the Twenty-first Century: Deconstructing the "Strangeness" and "Familiarity" in the world's symbolic realities</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">The hallowed principle of linguistic relativity has been with anthropology from the start, representing one of the signature theoretical axioms of the field—one
that links everyday speech practices to the social construction of larger cultural realities.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Despite great advances in other disciplines, such as cognitive science, many linguistic anthropologists now shy away from the supposed controversy surrounding
the topic—perhaps in part due to the powerful rhetorical effect of several popular works by mainstream linguists, whose "mere" words have changed public perception, in a profoundly Whorfian fashion.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">The purpose of this panel is to show that much of our work continues to resonate with the principle of linguistic relativity in the deepest sense, given our sustained
professional interest in how language shapes perception and action in everyday social encounters. </span>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">If you are interested contributing to this panel, here are a few potential topics that could be meaningfully addressed at present:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Language Ideologies and the Framing of Speech Communities</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Racism (or Discrimination) in Everyday language</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Poetics and the Social Imagination</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Metaphor and Framing</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Rhetorical Constructions, Perception, and Social Action</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Linguistic Relativity as Analogous to Musical Relativity</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Ethno-syntax and the Many Permutations of Worldview</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Multilingualism, Language Contact, the Negotiation of Worldviews</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• The Spontaneous Emergence of Worldview during Interaction</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">• Language Revitalization and the Renewal of Indigenous Worldviews</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">All languages and theoretical frameworks are welcome.</span><br>
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