28.5129, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-5129. Wed Dec 06 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.5129, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Canada

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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:28:31
From: Paul Miller [pchamness at gmail.com]
Subject: International Society for Language Studies 2018 Conference

 
Full Title: International Society for Language Studies 2018 Conference 
Short Title: ISLS 2018 

Date: 28-Jun-2018 - 30-Jun-2018
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
Contact Person: Paul Miller
Meeting Email: conf2018 at isls.co
Web Site: http://www.isls.co/conference.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2017 

Meeting Description:

The International Society for Language Studies, co-sponsored by Wilfird
Laurier University, will hold a conference from June 28-30, 2018 at the
Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, about one hour
outside of Toronto. The theme of the conference will be “Intersections of
Language Studies and Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation.”
The paper proposal submission will open on the ISLS website
(http://www.isls.co/conference.php) in June, 2017, and conclude on November
30, 2017. Submissions will not be accepted after the November 30 deadline.
Notification of proposal acceptance or rejection will be sent by January 15,
2018. All presenters who have not registered for the conference by February
28, 2018 will not be scheduled in the conference program. Selected conference
papers will be published in a special issue of Critical Inquiry in Language
Studies: An International Journal or in the Readings in Language Studies
peer-reviewed book series in 2019. Both publications opportunities are
peer-reviewed.


2nd Call for Papers:

About the Theme:

The conference will bring together Canadian and global scholars in language
studies, national and international administrators and language program
directors, graduate students, educators, and practitioners. We are mindful and
proud that Canada has been chosen as the location for this international
conference, with its constitutional status as officially bilingual and its
commendable efforts in immigration, social justice, and multilingualism.
Bringing the International Society for Language Studies to Canada provides a
unique opportunity to showcase innovative research from Canada and across the
world.

Recent developments in immigration, travel, and international relations make
this project timely. The specific emphasis of the conference on intersections
of language studies and social/political movements, activism, and
participation encourages new directions in research through interdisciplinary
junctures that are fruitful and opportune. The conference will explore various
facets of language and their relationship to social/political movements,
activism, and participation. We view language as both shaping and being shaped
by historical, political, social, and cultural contexts. Research on language
from such perspectives has historically been marginalized as well as
compartmentalized within artificially constructed academic disciplines. As
such, a main objective of the conference is to bridge these arbitrary
disciplinary territories and provide a forum for both theoretical and
empirical research, from existing and emergent research methodologies, for
exploring the relationships among language, power, discourses, and social
practices.

In order to provide a guide and structure to the theme, the following
represent possible key words (called strands and elaborated below) to describe
your proposed session.

Strands:

- Discourse & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation
- Language & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation in the
Professions & Workplace
- Language, Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation & K-12
Education
- Language, Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation & Higher
Education/Adult Education
- Language Policy & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation
- Language, Culture & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation
- Researching Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation in
Language Studies
- Other

For further details and instructions for submitting your proposal, please
visit our conference page: http://www.isls.co/conference.php




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