GURT 2011 call for papers

[David Boromisza-Habashi]

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2011
Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media
March 10-13, 2011


Deadline for submission of  abstracts: November 10th, 2010
Website: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2011/index.html

Plenary Speakers
·       Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg
·       Naomi Baron, American University
·       Susan Herring, Indiana University at Bloomington
·       Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
·       Crispin Thurlow, University of Seattle

Workshops
·       Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown University
·       and more....

We invite submissions in all areas relevant to language and new media,
including:
The language of facebook, twitter, and other new media
The language of texting, hypertext, and other new technologies
Identity, Indexicality, and Intertextuality
Language and gender, performance, and narrative

Possible themes may include:
How the medium shapes language and social interaction
How language and social interaction affect media
Intergenerational/intercultural communication
Language in medical, educational, legal, workplace, and other contexts

We welcome a range of approaches, including:
Anthropological Linguistics
Conversation or Discourse Analysis
Interactional Sociolinguistics
Multimodality
Variation Analysis
Visual Analysis



-- 
David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Colorado, 270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA
Web: http://comm.colorado.edu/people.php?id=103

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