UCLA CLIC Final Call for Papers

[Adrienne R. Isaac]

                        **Final Call for Papers**

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student
Association at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Language,
Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association at the
University of California, Santa Barbara issues their final call for papers for

            The Fourth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and
Culture to be held May 18-20, 2000 at the University of
California, Los Angeles.

Plenary Speaker: Tony Wootton, University of York, U.K.

Professor Wootton's research has focused on the development of the
interaction of children, including children with autism and other disabilities.

Papers should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction,
and culture, and data should consist of naturally occurring behavior.
Potential methods include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis,
discourse analysis, and ethnographic methods.

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) is located at the
University of California, Los Angeles. The purpose of CLIC is to promote
cross-disciplinary discussion about issues regarding language as a complex
resource for thinking and acting in the world. CLIC is composed of faculty
and graduate students from anthropology, applied linguistics, education,
psychology, and sociology.

Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute
discussion period. Submission of abstracts must be hard copy and should
include (1) a detachable title page that includes (a) the title of the
paper, (b) the author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address,
and phone number, (c) a list of equipment needed for the presentation; and
(2) THREE COPIES of a 500-1,000 word extended abstract of the paper,
including title, a brief description of methodology, and a description of
the data. No information identifying the author may appear in the abstract.
Three copies of submitted abstracts must be received no later than February
14, 2000.

Papers selected from conference presentations will, with the permission of
the author, be published in a conference proceedings.

Submissions not received in triplicate or not received by the deadline will
not be considered.

All submissions should be mailed to:
CLIC Graduate Student Association
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Applied Linguistics
P.O. BOX 951531
3300 Rolfe Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531

Please address questions regarding registration to Fazila Bhimji at
fbhimji at ucla.edu. For further information, please visit the CLIC homepage at
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/.