Call for Papers

[Valerie Sultan]

Ninth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
                            Call for Papers

Date: May 8-10, 2003

Location:  University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers:
Eve Clark: Stanford University, Department of Linguistics

Marjorie H. Goodwin: University of California, Los Angeles, Department of
Anthropolgy

Emanuel Schegloff: University of California, Los Angeles, Department of
Sociology

Deborah Schiffrin: Georgetown University, Department of Linguistics


The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization research group at the
University of California Santa Barbara announces a call for papers for the
Ninth Annual Language, Interaction, and Culture Conference to be held at
UCSB, May 8-10.

The annual conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion
of the
analysis of naturally occurring human interaction.  Submissions from
national,
international, and University of California scholars are encouraged.
Research
papers should address topics of language, interaction, and culture, and
should
employ naturally occurring data.  Potential methods include, but are not
limited to, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnographic
methods,
ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, and interactional
sociolinguistics.

The Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture is jointly organized
and
sponsored by the Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO)
group
and the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC).  LISO is an
interdisciplinary faculty and graduate student organization located on the
campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.  CLIC is a center
comprised of interdisciplinary faculty and graduate students located on
the
campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.  LISO and CLIC are
composed of researchers from the departments of Anthropology, Applied
Linguistics, Education, English, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology.


Submission Deadline:  February 10

Submission Guidelines

Presentations will be 20 minutes in length followed by a 10-minute
discussion
period.  Submissions from graduate students and junior faculty are
especially encouraged.

Submission of abstracts must be in hard copy and should contain:

1)  A hard copy detachable title page that includes:

    a)the title of the paper
    b)the author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail, and phone
       number
    c)a list of equipment needed for the presentation (subject to
       availability)

2)  SIX HARD COPIES of a 500-1,000 word maximum extended abstract of
the paper that includes:

   a)the title of the paper and description of the project
   b)a brief description of methodology
   c)a description of the data

3)  An email sent to lisograd at mail.lsit.ucsb.edu with Submission in the
    subject line and Title Page and Extended Abstract attached in a Rich
Text
    Format (.rtf) formatted document.  Electronic submissions will not be
    considered unless accompanied by hard copies.


No information identifying the author may appear in the abstract.

SIX (hard) copies of submitted abstracts and the electronic submission
must be received no later than February 10.

Papers selected from conference presentations, with the permission of the
author, will be published in the volume of conference proceedings.

Further inquiries can be addressed via e-mail to:
lisograd at mail.lsit.ucsb.edu

All submissions should be mailed to:

LISO Graduate Student Association
Department of Sociology
Ellison Hall, Room 2834
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430

For more information, see http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/liso/