Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Final Call

[Valerie Sultan]

Apologies for cross-posting

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers due Feb. 10


NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND CULTURE
May 8-10, 2003, University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers:

Emanuel Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles, Department of
Sociology
Eve Clark: Stanford University, Department of Linguistics
Deborah Schiffrin Georgetown University, Department of Linguistics
Marjorie H. Goodwin: University of California, Los Angeles, Department of
Anthropolgy




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

The LISO web page can be viewed at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/liso/.
Contact conference organizers at lisograd at mail.lsit.ucsb.edu.