<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello,</div><div>We're pleased to share with you the call for papers for the 31st iteration of our annual SALSA Conference in Austin, Texas. Submission details are below and in the attached pdf.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Maximilian X. Conrad (SALSA 2027 Chair)</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA):</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">January 15-16, 2027</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">The University of Texas at Austin</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Keynote Speaker:</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Dr. Kristina Wirtz (University of Western Michigan)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual conference that</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">brings together scholars from around the world who study the social life of language. We are</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">now accepting submissions for <span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">SALSA XXXI</span>, which will take place <span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">January 15-16, 2027</span>.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The deadline for submissions is <span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">October 5, 2026</span>.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The theme for SALSA XXXI is “Rites and Ritual”: How can language forge identities and shape</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">the way we encounter the social in ritualized life, both religious and secular? One panel will be</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">thematically focused on the conference theme. For the other panels, we welcome papers on</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">any topic concerning the use of language in social life. <span style="color:rgb(33,37,41)">Potential topics include, but are not</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">limited to:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language and social interaction</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Gesture and embodiment</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language ideologies</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Semiotics</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● New media, LLMs, and AI</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language policy and planning</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language education</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-size:19px">● </span>Speech play and verbal art</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-size:19px">● </span>Language documentation and</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">revitalization</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-size:19px">● </span>Raciolinguistics</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Multilingualism and language contact</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Political communication</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language and posthumanism</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">If you would like to submit your paper for consideration on the thematic panel, please indicate so</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">on your proposal. If your proposal is not accepted to the thematic panel, you will still be</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">considered for the conference as a whole.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Submission Guidelines</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">The deadline for abstract submission is October 5, 2026.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, Times New Roman, size 12; 1.5 inter-line</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">spacing as an attachment to</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">Subject: SALSA XXXI AbstractPlease include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract (with the exception</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">of title, which should appear in both):</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● Paper Title:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first followed by</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">subsequent authors):</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-size:9.5px">● </span>Consideration for thematic panel?: Yes</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">No</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">___</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">___</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● Author(s) affiliation:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">For more information about the conference, see</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://sites.utexas.edu/salsa/" target="_blank">https://sites.utexas.edu/salsa/</a> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Questions can be sent to</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Conference Organizers</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The conference is presented by the SALSA Graduate Student Organization at UT-Austin,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:19px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-size:18px">Maximilian Conrad (chair)</span>, Feiyao Liao, and Sara Gace.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">SALSA</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">University of Texas at Austin</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">Department of Anthropology</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">William C. Powers (WCP) 4.114</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(51,63,72)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Phone: (</span><a href="tel:(512)%20471-4206" value="+15124714206" target="_blank">512) 471-4206</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Email: </span><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></p></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Maximilian X. Conrad, M.A.</b><div><b>PhD Student | Dept. of Anthropology|<font color="#ff9900"> </font><span style="color:rgb(191,87,0)">The University of Texas at Austin</span></b></div></div></div></div>