CFP: 14th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

[Andrea Olinger]

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Please distribute the following Call for Papers widely to colleagues and
students interested in the study of language, interaction, and culture.

*CALL FOR PAPERS

14th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
May 22-24, 2008 *
*University of California, Los Angeles *

Presented by the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate
Student Association (CLIC-GSA) at the University of California, Los Angeles
and the Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student
Association (LISO-GSA) at the University of California, Santa Barbara

*Plenary Speakers: *
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Asif Agha, *Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
*Kris Gutiérrez, *Education, University of California, Los Angeles
*Douglas Maynard, *Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
*Suzanne Wertheim, *Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles;
University of Maryland

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language,
interaction, and culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to,
conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication,
ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and
language socialization.

Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students
and faculty. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of
naturalistic interaction are encouraged.  Speakers will have 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. A subset of papers presented at
the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, Crossroads
of Language, Interaction, and Culture, Volume 7, 2009.

Abstracts are due no later than *Friday, February 15, 2008, by electronic
submission only.* The submission guidelines are provided below and on the
CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/).

<http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic> *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *

Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/abstractsubmit.htm).
Please provide the following information:

- Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for
notification
- The title of the paper
- Any equipment requirements
- An abstract no longer than 500 words
- Any additional comments

Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper;
briefly discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous
research and the work's relevance to developments in the field; and may
include a short example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions
should be stated, however tentative.

Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed
by scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology,
applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters
will be accepted based on reviewers' evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.


The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is *Friday, February 15, 2008.
Late submissions will not be accepted. *Notification of acceptance or
non-acceptance will be sent via e-mail in March 2008.

Conference registration is free at the CLIC-GSA website:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/registration.htm

Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association
(CLIC-GSA)
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Applied Linguistics
P.O. BOX 951531 3300 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531
clicgsa at humnet.ucla.edu
 www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic
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