Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice
Short Title: CLASP

Date: 05-Oct-2007 - 07-Oct-2007
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Contact Person: Joshua Raclaw
Meeting Email: clasp.conferencegmail.com
Web Site:
http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/clasp/conf/

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2007


The program in Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP) at the
University of Colorado at Boulder is pleased to invite submissions to its
first graduate student-run interdisciplinary conference. The conference
will take place from Oct 5 - Oct 7, 2007. Confirmed plenary speakers are
H. Samy Alim (Anthropology, UC Los Angeles), Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics,
UC Santa Barbara), Kathy Escamilla (Education, University of Colorado),
and Crispin Thurlow (Communication, University of Washington).

The program in Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP) at the
University of Colorado at Boulder is pleased to invite submissions to its
first graduate student-run interdisciplinary conference. Abstracts for 20
minute papers covering topics in various areas of sociocultural
linguistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural_linguistics) are
invited for either the General Session or the Theme Session (see below)
and are due by April 15, 2007. For both Sessions, we encourage papers that
focus on the broad connections between language, culture and society and
are grounded in empirical research. Examples of possible frameworks or
analytic traditions for either Session may include, but are not limited
to:

Sociolinguistics
Linguistic anthropology
Narrative studies
Critical discourse analysis
Conversation analysis
Language and identity
Discourse pragmatics
Computer-mediated discourse
Ethnography of speaking
Language and literacy
Verbal art and performance
Bilingualism and code-switching
Language globalization
Intercultural communication
Language socialization

Conference Details:

The Friday of the conference will consist of workshops with plenary
speakers and CLASP faculty, while Saturday and Sunday will be devoted to
paper presentations and plenary talks.

Theme Session

Papers for the Theme Session should focus on a topic or issue dealing with
interdisciplinary approaches to doing research on language, society and
culture.  Papers for consideration in the Theme Session may address issues
dealing with crossing (inter)disciplinary boundaries in both theoretical
and applied research. Possible topics for the Theme Session might include:
dialogues between linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics; the use of
feminist and queer conversation analysis; ethnographic approaches to doing
critical discourse analysis; etc.

Submission Guidelines Please email a 500 word abstract to
clasp.conferencegmail.com by April 15, 2007. The abstract should be
attached in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text (.rtf) format and should
contain no information identifying the author(s)  of the paper. Abstracts
are evaluated on an anonymous basis. In the body of the email, please
include the following information:

-Name(s) of author(s)
-University or other affiliation(s) of the author(s)
-Email address(es) of the author(s)
-Title of proposed paper
-Whether you'd like to be considered for the General or Themed session
-Equipment requirements
-Any additional comments
-3-5 keywords describing the paper

Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by
August 1, 2007.

About CLASP:

More information about CLASP can be found here:
http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/requirements.html

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