Arabic-L:LING:Language and Society Symposium-Austin

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Date: 15 Nov 2006
From:Afra Al-Mussawir <afraalmussawir at yahoo.com>
Subject:Language and Society Symposium-Austin

would be nice to see some papers on arabic here ...



Please distribute accordingly.
The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to
announce its
15th Annual Meeting to be held April 13-15, 2007 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
Language and Politics

2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
John Heritage, University of California, Los Angeles
Judith Irvine, University of Michigan
Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University
Carol Padden, University of California, San Diego

Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special
edition of
theTexas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for
presentation
and10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected on the basis
of an
anonymous review process.

Please send submissions to SALSA 2007 through the online submission
form on the
SALSA web page.
http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa

All submissions must include TWO abstracts: An extended abstract not
to exceed
4,100 characters and spaces (approximately 600 words), including
references and
examples; and a shorter abstracts not to exceed 1,100 spaces and
characters
(approximately 150 words). Please note that the online submission
form does not
accept special formatting or text such as IPA.  Only electronic
submissions sent
through our online form will be accepted.  The
abstract submission system will be available beginning November 27,
2006. Each
person is limited to ONE submission as the primary author; multiple
submissions
by the same first author will not be accepted.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 16, 2007. 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
2007.

Pre-registration fees for SALSA XV will be $25 for students and $50
for
non-students, and on-site registration fees will be $30 for students
and $60
for non-students.
Contact us at:	salsaut at uts.cc.utexas.edu
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SALSA XV at the University of Texas at Austin, April 13-15
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/index.shtml

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Afra Al-Mussawir
Department of Anthropology and
Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
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