Language and Identity Tapestry (Call for Papers) (fwd)

[Mary Bucholtz]

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Date: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:19 PM -0400
From: Margaret Anne Toye <mat9 at georgetown.edu>
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Subject: Language and Identity Tapestry (Call for Papers)

We hope that your students will find this conference of interest.  Could
you please distribute among your students?

***CALL FOR PAPERS***


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 from established scholars in the field of sociolinguistics.
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. More information about the plenary addresses,
panels, and conference workshops will be available on the conference
website.

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.

If you have questions or would like more information about this conference,
please visit the conference website:
http://www.georgetown.edu/users/jlm84/GLS2005



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Mary Bucholtz
Department of Linguistics
3607 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100
phone: (805) 893-5415
fax: (805) 893-7769
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/
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