<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">*Apologies for cross-posting*<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication (EELC8)<br>“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:15.5467px">Perspectives across disciplinary and political borders”</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-US">24–25 SEPTEMBER </span><span lang="EN-GB">2020<br>UNIVERSITY OF OSLO<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">Submission deadline: 2 December 2019<br>Decision notification: 3 February 2020<br>Registration deadline: 15 May 2020<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">Submit via the <a href="http://www.uio.no/EELC8" target="_blank">conference website</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">Please join us for the 8th biennial conference of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum, hosted by the Department of Teacher Education and School Research & Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at the University of Oslo, Norway.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">This year’s theme is </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:15.5467px">“Perspectives across disciplinary and political borders.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Linguistic ethnography has emerged as a way to bring contextualized insight into communication practices and has been taken up by a variety of disciplines. In this conference, we welcome contributions related to the study of communication practices from across contexts and disciplines. By bringing together researchers who work on issues of language and communication through ethnographic methods, we aim to improve understandings of communication in context and contribute to contemporary social concerns. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:15.5467px">Through this year’s theme, particular focus is set upon transdisciplinarity and the methodological and praxiological opportunities for addressing issues of social change and social justice.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8pt;line-height:11.3067px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Keynote presentations will be given by Christine Hélot (University of Strasbourg, France), Quentin Williams (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), and Bente Ailin Svendsen (University of Oslo, Norway).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Workshops will be led by Julia Snell (University of Leeds, UK), Line Møller Daugaard (VIA University College, Denmark), and Mariëtte de Haan (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Alfredo Jornet Gil (University of Oslo, Norway).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">Please see the conference website for more information: <a href="http://www.uio.no/EELC8" target="_blank">www.uio.no/EELC8</a><span class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Papers, panels and posters related to the following themes are especially welcomed:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language and communication in educational institutions<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language and communication in public services<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language and communication in the health sector<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language and communication in workplaces<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language and communication in the media<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language and communication in deaf people’s communities<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(68,68,68);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language and communication in drama and the arts</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Language, communication, and social change or stasis<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Literature and literacy practices<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Multilingual and/or multimodal communication<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Digital ethnography<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Linguistic ethnography, advocacy, and activism<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:16.8667px"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Methodological issues in linguistic ethnography<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submission formats:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Paper or Poster: Please submit a title and abstract (max. 300 word, including any references) in PDF format. The author’s name, affiliation and contact information and up to 5 keywords will be submitted separately through an online form (for blind review). Please also indicate whether you would prefer to present a paper or a poster. Individual papers will have 20 minutes followed by 7 minutes of discussion.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Panel: Panel organizers are asked to submit an abstract for the entire panel (max. 500 words, including any references), with a title and an overall description of the panel and up to 5 keywords, in PDF format. In addition, it should include the titles and abstracts of the individual papers (max. 300 words each, including any references). The names, affiliation, contact information of the organizers and the names and affiliations of the authors of individual papers must be submitted separately through an online form. The organizers are also asked to indicate the length of the panel in time blocks of either 1 ½ or 3 hours.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">The deadline for abstracts is 2 December 2019. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo in September 2020!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-6844749118425243904MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.5467px"><span lang="EN-GB">All the best,<br>The EELC conference team</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><b><a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/multiling/english/people/postdoc-fellows/haleyjd/" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif" target="_blank">Haley De Korne</a><br></b></div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">MultiLing Center </span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">University of Oslo</span></div></b></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>