32.3160, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 32.3160, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Socioling/USA

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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 05:14:13
From: Víctor Fernández-Mallat [vf109 at georgetown.edu]
Subject: Georgetown University Roundtable 2022: Dialect Contact

 
Full Title: Georgetown University Roundtable 2022: Dialect Contact 
Short Title: GURT 2022 

Date: 10-Mar-2022 - 13-Mar-2022
Location: Online, USA 
Contact Person: GURT 2022
Meeting Email: gurt at georgetown.edu
Web Site: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/# 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2021 

Meeting Description:

Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible varieties
interact. Many kinds of linguists are interested in the outcome of such
contact — how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such
patterns can reveal about language, mind, and society. Dialect contact can
thus be approached as an individual-level or a community-level phenomenon; a
cognitive process or a social one. GURT 2022 will provide a unique opportunity
for the wide range of scholars working on different aspects of dialect contact
to come together and share methodologies, findings, theoretical approaches,
and avenues for future research.


Call for Papers:

The Organizing Committee of GURT 2022 invites abstract and proposal
submissions for the conference, which will be held from March 10-13, 2022 as a
virtual meeting. Papers and special sessions may address any topic related to
the conference theme of Dialect Contact, though we especially encourage
submissions on the following topics:
- experimental approaches to dialect learning/accommodation
- mobility and dialect change over the lifespan
- multicultural youth vernaculars and other urban varieties emerging from
dialect contact
- dialect contact in the Arabic-speaking world
- dialect contact in Latin America

For the non-plenary sessions, we envision a balanced mix of traditional
conference talks and more discussion-based sessions.

To that end, we invite submissions for two types of activities:
1. Regular conference-style papers (20 mins synchronous online presentation +
10 mins discussion)
2. Special sessions: synchronous, discussion-forward sessions of various
kinds. Possible formats include:
- Panel discussions: in which a panel organizer (or organizers) presents a
topic for discussion and some key questions relating to that topic, opens
discussion to a number of invited participants with expertise on that topic,
and moderates that discussion
- Pecha Kucha/”Lightning” paper sessions: in which several scholars each
present a very short (~7 min) overview of work on some topic, preceding a
synthesizing discussion led by the session’s organizer
- Workshops: in which organizers share a tool or set of tools relevant for the
study of Dialect Contact, with appropriate demo data

Whatever the format (choose the one that best suits the goals of your session;
you can also pitch us alternative formats), each special session should fit
into a 90 minute parallel session slot, or, at most, two 90 minute sessions. 

Scholars who would like to present a regular conference paper should submit a
typical conference paper abstract (If you are not familiar with this genre of
academic writing, helpful advice can be found on the LSA website
(https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/model-abstracts) and in this
document by Maggie Tallerman
(https://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/crills/files/writing-linguistics-abstr
acts.pdf). Abstracts should be at most 500 words; up to 250 additional words
may be used for references, glosses and/or transcribed examples, and images.

Special Session organizers should submit a proposal describing what kind of
session they would like to hold, the motivation for the session, the
anticipated contribution of the session, who will participate, and how the
time will be used. Additional participants should be listed as co-authors on
the submission form. Proposals should be at most 500 words; up to 250
additional words may be used for references, glosses and/or transcribed
examples, and images.

Any person may submit at most one single-author regular paper abstract. There
is no limit on the number of co-authored abstracts (for papers) or proposals
(for special sessions) one may submit, nor is there a limit to the number of
special sessions an individual may participate in. 

All abstracts are due by December 1, 2021, with notification of acceptance or
rejection by January 14, 2022.  Submit abstracts via Oxford Abstracts here:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/login?redirect=/stages/3120/submitter (If you
have not used this platform before, you will need to register your email).

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at gurt at georgetown.edu
or via Twitter @GURoundtable, or visit https://gurt.georgetown.edu




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