[EDLING:275] Fwd: The Language and Identity Tapestry--Call for Papers

[Kendall King]

CFP: ABSTRACT DEADLINE OCT. 1, 2004; UPDATED LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS

The Georgetown Linguistics Society
is pleased to announce

THE LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY TAPESTRY:
Linguistic re/presentation of identities in social interaction

GLS 2005
Friday, February 18 - Sunday, February 20, 2005
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.


Tapestry -  a form of art in which individual strands are woven
together to form a cohesive whole. Tapestries are characterized by
their complex and rich pictorial designs.

The theme of GLS 2005, The Language and Identity Tapestry: linguistic
re/presentation of identities in social interaction, captures the
multiple ways identities are produced and reproduced through
linguistic practices in every day social interaction. We encourage
papers that illuminate the often invisible process of identity
constructions through language in social interactions. We are
interested in how local linguistic practices constitute individual
and collective identity performances. The metaphor of tapestry
reflects this relationship: the weaving together of separate
linguistic practices to produce meaningful displays of identities.

GLS 2005 is a student conference run by the graduate students in the
Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. The conference
will include three days of student oral presentations selected on the
basis of abstracts submitted by October 1, 2004. There will also be
individual plenary addresses and two panel discussions on the theme
of language and identity (see list below). Another highlight of the
conference will be the opening workshops on locating identities in
spoken and written language as well as in visual forms of
communication.

**Invited Plenary Speakers**
Mary Bucholtz, University of California at Santa Barbara
Penelope Eckert, Stanford University
Theo van Leeuwen, Cardiff University

**Invited Panelists**
Michael Bamberg, Clark University
Mike Baynham, University of Leeds
Susan Bell, Bowdoin College
Anna De Fina, Georgetown University
Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Kings College London
Susan Philips, University of Arizona
Branca Telles Robeiro, Lesley University/ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown University
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University

Please visit the conference website for more information about the
plenary speakers, panelists, and other conference events:
www.georgetown.edu/users/jlm84/GLS2005.html

We invite submissions of abstracts for oral presentations. Papers
will last 20 minutes with additional time for discussion. Works
submitted should specifically address the language and identity
relationship. The conference is interdisciplinary, and we invite work
on language and identity from a variety of fields, including not only
sociolinguistics but also fields such as anthropology, sociology,
cultural studies, communication, and queer or gender studies. We
encourage work within but not limited to the following areas:

∑ Discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis
∑ Variationist perspectives on individual and/or group identity
∑ Multimodal and/or semiotic analyses of identity construction
∑ Language and ethnic/national identity
∑ Ethnographic examinations of language and identity
∑ Performance of identity in private and public spheres
∑ Language and identity in media

The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 1, 2004. We
require both paper and electronic copies of your abstract. Paper
abstract submissions should be sent to:

GLS 2005 Conference
Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University
3700 "O" Street NW
Washington, DC 20057

Electronic abstract submissions should be sent to: GLSCONF at georgetown.edu.

Your submission should include the following:

1. Your abstract text (no longer than 500 words). Include a title.
Please submit five paper copies of your abstract text. Do not include
your name or any identifying information on these copies.

2. An electronic copy of your abstract. You may either send an
electronic copy on a disk
along with your paper abstract submission, or you may send the
electronic copy via email to GLSCONF at georgetown.edu.

3. On a separate sheet of paper, include your name, affiliation,
title of abstract, email address, mailing address and phone number.


Deadline for receipt of abstracts: October 1, 2004.


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Kendall King, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Intercultural Center 458, Washington D.C. 20057
Ph: 202-687-7117        Fax: 202-687-6174
Email: AKK25 at georgetown.edu
OFFICE HOURS (FALL 2004): THURSDAYS 3.00-5.00
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