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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Afra Al-Mussawir <afraalmussawir at yahoo.com>
Subject:Language and Society Symposium at UT

CALL FOR PAPERS -- SALSA 2004
The SYMPOSIUM ABOUT LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY--AUSTIN is pleased to
announce its
12th annual meeting to be held APRIL 16-18, 2004, at the University
of Texas
at Austin. We encourage the submission of abstracts on research that
addresses the relationship of language to culture and society.
Desired
frameworks include but are not limited to:

Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
Ethnography of Communication
Language and Identity
Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Poetics
Language, Media, and Technology
Language and Social Interaction
Discourse Analysis
Conversation Analysis
Language Vitality
Language Socialization
Gesture and Talk in Interaction

2004 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Susan Ervin-Tripp, University of California, Berkeley
Emanuel Schegloff, University of California, Los Angeles
Jürgen Streeck, University of Texas, Austin
Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania

Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special
edition of
the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected
based on
the evaluation of an anonymously written abstract, which may not
exceed 600
words. We will accept only electronic submissions.

SUBMISSIONS
Please email your abstract to utsalsa at uts.cc.utexas.edu, Subject:
SALSA 12
Abstract.
Please include in the following order:
1. Title of the paper
2. Author's name
3. Author's affiliation
4. Address, phone number, and email address at which the author
wishes to be
notified
5. A 600-word abstract*
6. A short 200-word abstract* for publication in the conference
program
7. Equipment needs (e.g., overhead projector, computer projection,
etc.)
*Please send the abstracts as a Word attachment as well as in the
body of
the email message.

Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference
details:
http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/index.shtml

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 15, 2004. Late
submissions will
not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers that are to be published
elsewhere. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in
mid-February 2004. Pre-registration fees will be $20 for students and
$40
for non-students, and on-site registration fees will be $25 for
students and
$45 for non-students. Completed papers must be brought to the
conference to
be included in the published proceedings.
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