<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div><div>I am writing to send out our call for abstracts for the 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization, an annual student-led conference at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA. Although abstracts that fit the conference theme are especially encouraged, we welcome all work related to language in interaction.</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>This year, we are extremely lucky to have Shannon Ward as one of our keynote speakers. Many on this list likely know her for her groundbreaking work on Tibetan, both in Amdo and in diaspora communities. Given this opportunity, I would really appreciate seeing a wider representation of Trans-Himalayan/Tibeto-Burman languages at the conference, since like most venues on interactional language, most of our presentations have typically focused on literate, official and lots of users (LOL) languages (I believe I presented the only non-Sinitic Trans-Himalayan/Tibeto-Burman language in the last iteration of the conference in 2022).</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for cross-posting, and hope to see some folks on this list in Santa Barbara in May!</div><div><br></div></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Ryan</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f57cc235-7fff-5b06-a8e3-86409a76c993"><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><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 17th, 2025.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1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  <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>