invitation from the UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum

[David Boromisza-Habashi]

UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum

Aims
The UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum (UKLEF) was set up in March 2001,
and it  aims to bring together researchers conducting linguistic
ethnography in the UK
and abroad, to explore a range of past and current work, to identify
key issues, and to engage in methodologically and theoretically
well-tuned debate.

Linguistic ethnography
"Linguistic ethnography generally holds that language and social life
are mutually  shaping, and that close analysis of situated language
use can provide both
fundamental and distinctive insights into the mechanisms and dynamics
of social and cultural production in everyday activity." (UKLEF
discussion paper, p.2).

Activities
Members of the Forum regularly organize seminars, colloquia, training,
and other events open to anyone who is interested in Linguistic
Ethnography, and we have
Special Interest Group status in the British Association for Applied
Linguistics (BAAL). For more details please visit our website,
www.ling-ethnog.org.uk.

Membership and email-list
Our email list (ling-ethnog at jiscmail.ac.uk) is counted as our
membership. Membership currently stands at 231 (July 2008), with
members in 22 countries.
The list is used to circulate information about the Forum's activities
and relevant discussions.

Website
The website www.ling-ethnog.org.uk serves both as a form of publicity
and as an archive. All existing group documents, such as minutes of
business meetings,
officers' reports, and accounts are posted on the website, along with
reports and  papers presented at UKLEF meetings.

Becoming a member
If you would like to become a member of the Linguistic Ethnography
Forum (at no cost or obligation), please send an email to Jeff
Bezemer, Communications
Secretary, at j.bezemer at ioe.ac.uk, providing the following details: *
first name * surname * email address * institution * department *
research interests
* member of BAAL: yes/no * how you heard about the list

While this confers no obligations on you, your name and email address
would be part of a membership list submitted to BAAL each November, in
which we need
to distinguish between BAAL members and non-members.

www.ling-ethnog.org.uk



-- 
David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Colorado
270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA

office location: Hellems 78
work phone: +1 (303) 735 5076
work fax: +1 (303) 492 8411

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