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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700">January 16-17, 2026</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700">The University of Texas at Austin</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700">Keynote Speaker:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-weight:700">Dr. Luke Fleming (University of Montreal)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (<span class="gmail-il">SALSA</span>) is an annual conference that brings together scholars from around the world who study the social life of language. We
 are now accepting submissions for</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700"> <span class="gmail-il">SALSA</span> <span class="gmail-il">XXX</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, which will
 take place January 16-17, 2026. The deadline for submissions is October 6, 2025.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">One panel at this year’s conference will be devoted to the theme “Taboo and Transgression.” For the other panels,
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">we welcome papers on any topic concerning the use of language in social life.
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(33,37,41)">Potential topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<ul dir="ltr"><li dir="ltr">Language and social interaction </li><li dir="ltr">Gesture and embodiment</li><li dir="ltr">Language ideologies</li><li dir="ltr">Semiotics</li><li dir="ltr">New media and AI</li><li dir="ltr">Language policy and planning</li></ul>
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<ul dir="ltr"><li dir="ltr">Language documentation and revitalization</li><li dir="ltr">Raciolinguistics</li><li dir="ltr">Multilingualism and language contact</li><li dir="ltr">Political communication</li><li dir="ltr">Language and posthumanism</li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">If
 you would like to submit your paper for consideration on the thematic 
panel, please indicate so on your proposal. If your proposal is not 
accepted to the thematic panel,
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700">The deadline for abstract submission is October 6, 2025.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words as an attachment to
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Subject: <span class="gmail-il">SALSA</span> <span class="gmail-il">XXX</span> Abstract</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Please include
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exception of title, which should appear in both):</span></p>
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Paper Title</p>
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Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first followed by subsequent authors)</p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">Consideration for thematic panel?:   Yes ___       No ___</span></p>
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E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted</p>
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Font: Times New Roman, size 12; 1.5 inter-line spacing</p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">For more information about the conference, see
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https://sites.utexas.edu/<span class="gmail-il">salsa</span>/</a> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Questions can be sent to
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-il">salsa</span>.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">The conference is presented by the <span class="gmail-il">SALSA</span> Graduate Student Organization at UT-Austin,
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Jessica Bernard (co-chair),
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Kristina Juergensmeyer (co-chair), Will Norton, and Maximilian Conrad.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700"><span class="gmail-il">SALSA</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">University of Texas at Austin</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Department of Anthropology</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">William C. Powers (WCP) 4.1144</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Phone: (</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,63,72)">512) 471-4206</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Email: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-il">salsa</span>.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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