<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Just passing along a CFP for this year's <span style="font-size:12.8px">Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). The theme is "</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Approaches </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">to Discourse."</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">==============================</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">==============================</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">==</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Full Title: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Short Title: </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">GURT</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Date: </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">09-Mar-2018 - 11-Mar-2018</span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Location: Washington, DC, USA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Contact Person: Cynthia Gordon</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Meeting Email: </span><a href="mailto:gordonc@georgetown.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">gordonc@georgetown.edu</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Web Site: </span><a href="https://gurt.georgetown.edu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://<span class="gmail-il">gurt</span>.georgetown.edu/</a><div style="font-size:12.8px;display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px"></div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Call Deadline: </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">31-Oct-2017</span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Meeting Description:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (</span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">GURT</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">conference will be held on </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">March 9-11, 2018</span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">. The </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">GURT</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> 2018 theme is Approaches </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">to Discourse.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Discourse analysis, or the study of language in use or language “beyond the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">sentence,” has long been recognized in linguistics as one of its most</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">expansive, yet least defined, areas. It also transcends the field, fitting</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">comfortably in disciplines as varied as communication studies, anthropology,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">sociology, and education (among many others). </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">GURT</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> 2018 will bring together</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">leading researchers from around the world and from various disciplines to take</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">stock of current research and foster communication across approaches to</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">discourse.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Plenary speakers include Donal Carbaugh (University of Massachusetts,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Amherst), John Heritage (University of California, Los Angeles), Susan Philips</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(University of Arizona), Jürgen Streeck (The University of Texas at Austin),</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University), and Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Call for Papers:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">GURT</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> 2018 invites proposals for individual papers, posters, and colloquia from</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">various approaches to discourse analysis that address any of the field’s</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">diverse topical and theoretical foci, types and sources of data,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">methodological questions, and practical applications. The submission deadline</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">is </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">October 31, 2017</span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">. More information about the conference, including</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">submission guidelines, can be found here: </span><a href="https://gurt.georgetown.edu/GURT2018" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://<span class="gmail-il">gurt</span>.georgetown.edu/GU<wbr>RT2018</a><div style="font-size:12.8px;display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px"></div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Conference organizer: Cynthia Gordon</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:gordonc@georgetown.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">gordonc@georgetown.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> / </span><a href="mailto:cyngordon@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">cyngordon@gmail.com</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Charles H. P. Zuckerman</div>
<div>Linguistic Anthropology PhD Candidate<br>Department of Anthropology<br>University of Michigan<br></div></div></div>
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