CALL FOR PAPERS-CLIC/LISO (fwd)

[Margaret Field]

Please give the following call for papers the widest distribution:

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The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) Graduate Student
Association at UCLA

and

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Graduate Student
Association at UCSB

 Issue their call for papers for the fifth annual conference on language,
interaction, and culture to be held April 29-May 1,1999. This year's
conference will be hosted by the LISO Graduate Student Association at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.

                               Plenary Speaker Don Kulick
                     Language and Gender/Language and Sexuality

Don Kulick is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Stockholm.
He is the author of "Language shift and cultural reproduction: socialization,
syncretism and self in a Papua New Guinean village" (CUP 1992), and has
written articles on oratorical speech, language socialization, literacy
practices, and domestic arguments among the people of Gapun village, Papua
New Guinea. During the past few years, he has been conducting linguistic
anthropological work among transgendered prostitutes in Brazil. His most
recent book is "Travesti: sex, gender and culture among Brazilian
transgendered prostitutes" (U of Chicago Press, 1998).

Dr. Kulick will also lead a pre-conference workshop for graduate students.
Registration information will be forthcoming.

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language,
interaction, and culture and would preferably be based on recorded,
spontaneous interaction. They must be hard copy and should include: (1) a
detachable title page that includes (a) the title of the paper, (b) the
author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, and phone
number, (c) a list of equipment needed for the presentation; and (2) SIX
COPIES of a 500-1,000 word extended abstract of the paper. No information
identifying the author may appear in the abstract. Three copies of
submitted abstracts must be received no later than Friday, February 5,
1999.

LISO is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, whose members share an interest in the analysis
of recorded social interaction through various approaches, including
conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and functional
linguistics. LISO is composed of faculty and graduate students from
linguistics, sociology, and education, among other departments.

CLIC is located at the University of California, Los Angeles. The purpose
of CLIC is to promote cross-disciplinary discussion about issues regarding
language as a complex resource for thinking and acting in the world. CLIC
is composed of faculty and graduate students from anthropology, applied
linguistics, education, psychology, and sociology.

Submissions not received in triplicate or not received by the deadline will
not be considered. Further questions can be addressed via e-mail to
clic at ucla.edu or harbison at cats.ucsc.edu.

All submissions should be mailed to: LISO Graduate Student Association
University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Sociology 2834
Ellison Hall Santa Barbara, CA  93106-3100