22.2742, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Germany

[linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

LINGUIST List: Vol-22-2742. Tue Jul 05 2011. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 22.2742, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Germany

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alison at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature:  
Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility 
designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process 
abstracts online.  Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, 
and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, 
submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 05-Jul-2011
From: Uli Reich [uli.reich at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Sociolinguistics Symposium 19
 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:42:29
From: Uli Reich [uli.reich at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Sociolinguistics Symposium 19

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=22-2742.html&submissionid=4525362&topicid=3&msgnumber=1
  

Full Title: Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 

Date: 22-Aug-2012 - 24-Aug-2012
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Matthias Hüning
Meeting Email: sociolinguistics-symposium at fu-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2011 

Meeting Description:

The Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 will be hosted by Freie Universität Berlin. The main theme will be 'Language and the City'.

Attractive and terrifying, modern cities and megacities structure our lives and communication more than ever. More than 50% of the world's population live in big cities. If urban conglomerations are places where people from other places gather, they form the communicative conditions in many ways: Migration leads to multilingualism, social diversity leads to complex indexical fields. 

Call for Papers:

The main theme of the 19th Sociolinguistic Symposium brings together sociolinguistic work that sheds light on the relations between the socio-geographical phenomenon urbanity and linguistic variation and change. Thus, we particularly welcome contributions on urban indexical fields, social networks in the city, urban communities of practice, urban styles, languages of urban tribes, urban space, multilingualism, language contact, dialect leveling and koineization, new dialect formation, code-switching, linguistic landscapes and all related topics. We also encourage presentations of new methodologies and tools for data collection, transcription, and analysis.

Since the Sociolinguistics Symposium has always been a place for sociolinguistic discussion in the broad sense, space will also be given to contributions on any other subfield of sociolinguistic research.

Submissions:

We invite scholars to submit abstracts for contributions of the following types:

1) Thematic Sessions:

A Thematic Session is a cluster of related talks about a common topic. You can propose such a topic and will - if accepted - act as organiser of the thematic session. This means that you will be one of the reviewers for the papers/posters submitted to the session and that you will be responsible for the organization of the session in August 2012. We will try to have at least 50% of the thematic sessions related to the main theme of the conference (Language and the City). 

The length of your abstract/description should not exceed 600 words (excluding references). 

2) Papers:

Papers describe original work, either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 25 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions). 

The length of your abstract should not exceed 300 words (excluding references). 

3) Posters:

Posters may be a more suitable way of presenting results, work-in-progress, fieldwork, or when large amounts of data need to be displayed. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-to-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. 

The length of your abstract should not exceed 300 words (excluding references). 

Papers and posters can be submitted for a specific thematic session, but also without reference to a specific session.

Deadlines:

The submission of contributions to the conference is possible via the ConfTool conference management tool available on our website.

The submission process is organised in two steps:

1) Submission of Thematic Sessions:

Deadline: September 15, 2011 

After reviews and selection of thematic sessions for the conference, the submission of individual papers/posters will be opened (in early October).

2) Submission of Individual Papers and Posters:

- For the general theme of the conference (Language and the City)
- For a specific thematic session 
- For any subject within the field of sociolinguistics

Deadline: January 15, 2012







-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-22-2742	
----------------------------------------------------------