<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;text-align:center"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Extended deadline : February 5, 2016</font></b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="6"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;text-align:center"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;text-align:center"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">**</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"><div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;text-align:center"><font size="5"><b><font size="6" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SALSA XXIV:<br></font></b></font></div><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:center"><font size="5"><b><font size="6" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Raising Voices<br></font></b></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">April 15-16, 2016 at </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University of Texas at Austin</span><br></p><p align="left" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Symposium About Language and Society (SALSA) is an annual symposium promoting linguistic and sociolinguistic research at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally created through the joint efforts of students from the Linguistic and Anthropology Departments at the University of Texas, SALSA has developed into an interdisciplinary conference with contributions from various fields, including communication studies, foreign language education, educational psychology, media studies, speech communication, and numerous language departments. Our annual proceedings appear in special editions of Texas Linguistic Forum.</font></p><p align="left" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This year's theme is <b>Raising Voices</b>. It is by raising voices that various cultures overlap, connect, and share with each other. Languages encode methods for cultivating the voices of both individuals and groups, drawn together in solidarity through shared experience, growth, hardship, and loss. How are linguistic mechanisms used to cultivate these identities and sense of self? How can we utilize language to amplify cultural voices, and how do we interpret cultural silence? How do ideologies underpin who go gets to raise their voices and who is silenced? How do we use voice to build bridges from within, across, and at the peripheries of cultures when certain voices have been silenced as a result of colonial oppressions, dominant discourses or ways of communicating? With new technologies regularly available, how do we reconstruct voices that have been lost or silenced? SALSA XXIV seeks to explore these questions and more in order to contribute to literature in linguistics, anthropology, communication sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as queer, critical race, area, and women's and gender studies. <br></font></p><p align="left" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This year's keynote speakers will be:</font></p><div align="center" style="font-size:13px"><h4><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Rusty Barrett <br></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">University of Kentucky</span></h4><h4><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Diana Boxer <br></font><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University of Florida </span></h4><h4><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Courtney Handman <br></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">The University of Texas at Austin </span></h4><h4><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Norma Mendoza-Denton <br></font><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University of California Los Angeles </span></h4><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><h4><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The committee of SALSA XXIV welcome papers from all disciplines; potential topics might fall under the following areas:</font></span></h4></div><div align="left" style="font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language and law, politics, or economics </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Access and issues in interpretation</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The aesthetics and politics of translation </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dialectology and standardization </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bi-/multilingualism </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pidginization and creolization</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language ideologies</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language and identity - gender, race, & sexuality </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language and human rights</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language and the arts, sciences, and technology </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language and cognition</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Languages in contact</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The sounds of language: voice, voicing and silences </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds, signs, gestures</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language acquisition, shift and loss</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Language preservation, documentation, and revitalisation </font></li></ul></div><p style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Of course, topics are not restricted to those listed, but are merely meant to serve as guideposts. Please feel free to submit papers related to this year’s theme.</font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div align="center" style="font-size:13px"><h2><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Submission Guidelines</font></h2></div><p style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The <b><font size="4">EXTENDED deadline</font></b> for abstract submission is <b><font size="4">February 5, 2016</font></b>. </font><br></p><p style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Abstracts should be no longer than </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>600 words</b></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, including references and examples</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></p><div style="font-size:13px"></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please send abstracts to <a href="mailto:salsautaustin@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a> ; </font><strong><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Subject: SALSA XXIV Abstract</font></strong></div><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract, (with the exception of title, which should appear in both):</font><br></p><ul style="font-size:13px"><li style="margin:0px;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Paper Title
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