<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SALSA XXVI:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <b>April 20-21, 2018 </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The University of Texas at Austin </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Keynote Speakers: </b></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Dr. Jacqueline Urla (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</b></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12.8px">Dr. Richard Bourhis </font><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>(</b></font></span><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Université du Québec à Montréal)</b></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Dr. James Slotta (University of Texas at Austin)</b></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Dr. Bob Bednar (Southwestern University)</b></font></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year’s conference theme is</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 rea</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">lities.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The conference will focus on the ways speakers from diverse sociohistorical and cultural backgrounds use language to negotiate their identities in particular spaces. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome both diachronic and synchronic perspectives for the study of language in society. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage papers that address questions such as:</span></p><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">In what manner do different linguistic identities interact and evolve?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How are identities developed and expressed in different social situations?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How do language ideologies influence social behavior? <br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">What rhetorical and poetic resources in language reflect particular linguistic or cultural groups? <br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How can particular linguistic traditions and forms help us understand the nexus of  language, culture, and the individual?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How do varying notions of space and place interact with language?  <br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How do technological spaces provide new linguistic opportunities?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How do linguistic landscapes play a role in situations of language contact? <br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How can languages be revived, revitalized, and/or maintained through language policies and planning?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">In what ways do social media and other forms of mass media impact language use and change?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How does political discourse transform societies?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How can we use language to analyze the ideological underpinnings that shape and sustain the existence of borders?<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">How can emerging political scenarios, such as Catalonia vis a vis Spain, inform us about the relationship between language, community and identity? </font></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The committee of SALSA XXVI welcomes papers from all disciplines; potential topics might fall under the following areas:</span></p><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language and social interaction<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Gesture and embodiment<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language and cognition<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language ideologies<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Sign language studies<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language attitudes <br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Verbal art and speech play<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language in the media<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language and advertising<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language and technology<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language policy and planning<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Linguistic landscaping studies<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Interactive construction of meaning<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language preservation, <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">documentation, and revitalization </span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language acquisition, shift, and<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> loss</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Bi-/multi-lingualism<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Languages in contact<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Pidgins and creoles<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Language and law, politics, and <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">economics </span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Linguistic and cultural identity – </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif">nationality, gender, race, & <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> sexuality</span></font></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These topics are meant to serve as guideposts. Please feel free to submit papers on other topics related to this year’s theme.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Guidelines</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The deadline for abstract submission is January 14, 2018.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">300 to 500 words</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> abstracts to </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Subject: SALSA XXVI Abstract</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract (with the exception of title, which should appear in both):</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:start;white-space:normal"></span></p><ul style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper Title </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first followed by subsequent authors)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author(s) affiliation </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Font: Times New Roman, size: 12; 1.5 inter-line spacing</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Equipment required for presentation </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information, see </span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.8px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://salsa.ling.utexas.edu/index.html">http://salsa.ling.utexas.edu/index.html</a></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions can be sent to </span><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></span></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-Chairs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference presented by the SALSA Graduate Student Organization at UT-Austin.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Katie E. Bradford (Communication Studies)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kristie G. Denlinger (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Linguistics)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kelsie L. Gillig </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Anthropology)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cristian R. Juárez (Linguistics)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Raul A. Martinez/Quichi Patlan </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Anthropology)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rozen Neupane (French and Italian)</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SALSA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Texas at Austin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Department of Linguistics </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">College of Liberal Arts Building (CLA) 4.304</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Phone: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="tel:(512)%20471-1701" value="+15124711701" target="_blank">(512) 471-1701</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Email: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></span></p><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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