27.4486, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lang Documentation, Socioling/USA

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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:44:54
From: Hannah Foster [hannahlfoster at utexas.edu]
Subject: 25th Symposium About Language and Society in Austin

 
Full Title: 25th Symposium About Language and Society in Austin 
Short Title: SALSA 

Date: 14-Apr-2017 - 15-Apr-2017
Location: Austin, TX, USA 
Contact Person: SALSA Conference Committee
Meeting Email: salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Symposium About Language and Society (SALSA) is an annual symposium
promoting linguistic, linguistic anthropological and communication research at
the University of Texas at Austin. Originally created through the joint
efforts of students from the Linguistic, Anthropology and Communication
Studies Departments at the University of Texas, SALSA has developed into an
interdisciplinary conference with contributions from various fields, including
foreign language education, educational psychology, media studies, and
numerous language departments. Our annual proceedings appear in special
editions of Texas Linguistic Forum.

This year's theme is Language Contact and Multilingualism. We look at contact
broadly as the point where different languages and cultures come together and
influence one another. We want to examine language contact throughout history
and how it has shaped the present day languages in a variety of contexts and
outcomes. Through this perspective we examine questions such as how does
language contact impact bilingual and multilingual societies? How does contact
affect methods of communication? How do intersecting cultures influence
language use? What types of language ideologies influence and arise out of
this contact situation? How has contact impacted the relationship between
identity and language? In a world where contact is seemingly everywhere, how
do we understand the particularities of different contact situations? How is
contact encoded in the features of the languages in contact? How do social
media and other forms of mass media impact contact? What role does contact
play in projects of revitalization and documentation of languages? SALSA XXV
seeks to explore these questions and more in order to contribute to literature
in linguistics, anthropology, communication sciences, and interdisciplinary
fields such as media, queer, critical race, area, and women's and gender
studies.


Call for Papers:

The committee of SALSA XXV welcome papers from all disciplines; potential
topics might fall under the following areas:

- Language contact
- Language and social interaction
- Bi-/multilingualism
- Pidginization and creolization
- Language ideologies
- Interactive construction of meaning
- Linguistic and cultural identity - nationality, gender, race, & sexuality
- Language preservation, documentation, and revitalization 
- Language acquisition, shift and loss
- Language and law, politics, or economics 
- Language policies, access and standardization
- The aesthetics and politics of translation 
- Language and cognition
- Gesture and embodiment
- Sign language studies
- Contact throughout history

Of course, topics are not restricted to those listed, but are merely meant to
serve as guideposts. Please feel free to submit papers related to this year's
theme.

Submission Guidelines:

The deadline for abstract submission is January 14, 2017.
Please send abstracts to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
Subject: SALSA XXV Abstract

Please include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract,
(with the exception of title, which should appear in both):

- Paper Title  
- Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first followed
by subsequent authors) 
- Author(s) affiliation  
- E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted  
- Equipment required for presentation 

Questions can be sent to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com




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