<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>I am writing to let you know that the 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization has extended its deadline to 31 January. I have attached the second call for abstracts. Please let me know if you have any questions. Hoping we can see a broader range of languages in interaction represented at the conference!</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Ryan</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a91a0521-7fff-479a-fc58-eb2ed9438d0f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The</span><a href="https://www.liso.ucsb.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Graduate Student Organization</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> at UCSB and the</span><a href="https://clic.ss.ucla.edu/clicgsa/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) Graduate Student Association</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> at UCLA and are pleased to host:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">May 23-24, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">University of California, Santa Barbara</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Theme:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Research and (Re)action</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Plenary speakers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://lynnettearnold.net/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dr. Lynnette Arnold</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> – University of Massachusetts, Amherst</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://shannonward.ca/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dr. Shannon Ward</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> – University of British Columbia, Okanagan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/people/kevin-whitehead" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dr. Kevin Whitehead</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> – University of California, Santa Barbara</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This year, the conference theme is “Research and (Re)action.” This theme invites research that is engaged with the sociopolitical implications of language including: language and activism, language and resistance, language and social justice, and community-engaged approaches to research. We have put this theme forward in the hopes of fostering conversations about the role of language, interaction, and culture in the contemporary global sociopolitical climate.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Abstracts for presentations are welcome from all students, both graduate and undergraduate. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of naturalistic interaction are encouraged. Submissions within the scope of the conference theme are welcomed; however, innovative work on all aspects of language and interaction will be considered.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please submit your abstract (up to 300 words) </span><a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886/submitter" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> by January 31st, 2025.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Questions? Email: </span><a href="mailto:LISOconference@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">LISOconference@gmail.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Abstract submissions: </span><a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886/submitter" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886/submitter</span></a></p><br></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><table width="300" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,54,96)">Ryan Ka Yau Lai</span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px;vertical-align:top"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:4px 0px;vertical-align:top"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85);letter-spacing:0.65px">PhD Candidate<br>Department of Linguistics</span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85);letter-spacing:0.65px">Email: <a href="mailto:kayaulai@umail.ucsb.edu" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);outline:0px!important" target="_blank">kayaulai@umail.ucsb.edu</a></span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:6px 0px 0px;vertical-align:top"><img src="https://webfonts.brand.ucsb.edu/WordArt/UC_Santa_Barbara_Wordmark_Navy_RGB.300x30.png" alt="UC Santa Barbara" width="300" border="0" style="border:0px;vertical-align:middle;display:block;font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>Website: <a href="https://rkylai.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://rkylai.wordpress.com/</a></div><div>Zoom: <a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/my/kayaulai" target="_blank">https://ucsb.zoom.us/my/kayaulai</a></div><div>Google Scholar: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NJ-3M8QAAAAJ&hl" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NJ-3M8QAAAAJ&hl</a></div><div>GitHub, X, bluesky: @kayaulai</div><div>Selected recent publications:</div><div><div style="line-height:1.35;margin-left:2em">
  <div>Lai, Ryan Ka Yau & Michelle Man-Long Pang. 2023. Rethinking the description and typology of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions: a dynamic constructionist lens. <i>Languages</i> 8(2). 151. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020151" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020151</a>.</div>
  <span title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3390%2Flanguages8020151&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Rethinking%20the%20description%20and%20typology%20of%20Cantonese%20causative%E2%80%93resultative%20constructions%3A%20a%20dynamic%20constructionist%20lens&rft.jtitle=Languages&rft.stitle=Languages&rft.volume=8&rft.issue=2&rft.aufirst=Ryan%20Ka%20Yau&rft.aulast=Lai&rft.au=Ryan%20Ka%20Yau%20Lai&rft.au=Michelle%20Man-Long%20Pang&rft.date=2023-06-13&rft.pages=151&rft.issn=2226-471X&rft.language=en"></span></div></div><div><div style="line-height:1.35;margin-left:2em">
  <div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Lai, Ryan Ka Yau, Yujie Li & Shujie Zhang. 2023. Text segmentation similarity revisited: a flexible distance-based approach for multiple boundary types. </span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics</i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 6(1). 300–309. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7275/FK79-FV58" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.7275/FK79-FV58</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span><br></div><div><font color="#222222">Lai, Ryan Ka Yau, Lily Zihe Yin, Alice Yimeng Zhang, Yuting Jiang, Bill Shiyang Xin & Junwei Gao. 2023. Turn design, resonance and epistemic stance in the Diamond Sutra: A dialogic constructionist approach. In <i>Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation</i>, 753–763.</font><br></div><div><font color="#222222">Lai, Ryan Ka Yau. 2023. From annotation to analysis: Exploring conversational dynamics with rezonateR. In <i>Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation</i>, 303–313.<br></font></div>
  <span title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.7275%2FFK79-FV58&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Text%20segmentation%20similarity%20revisited%3A%20a%20flexible%20distance-based%20approach%20for%20multiple%20boundary%20types&rft.aufirst=Ryan%20Ka%20Yau&rft.aulast=Lai&rft.au=Ryan%20Ka%20Yau%20Lai&rft.au=Yujie%20Li&rft.au=Shujie%20Zhang&rft.date=2023&rft.issn=2834-1007"></span></div></div><div><div style="line-height:1.35;margin-left:2em">
  <div>Lai, Ryan Ka Yau. 2024. Beyond anaphoric and emphatic: diversity and unity in the functions of literary Chinese reflexive zì. <i>Folia Linguistica</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/flin-2023-2042" target="_blank">https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/flin-2023-2042</a>.</div></div></div></div></div></div>