LISO-CLIC Conference, 2nd call

[Alessandro Duranti]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS


Ninth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
Call for Papers

Date: May 8-10, 2003

Location:  University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers:

Emanuel Schegloff,  Eve Clark, Deborah Schiffrin, Marjorie H. Goodwin

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization research group at the
University of California Santa Barbara announces a call for papers for the
Ninth Annual Language, Interaction, and Culture Conference to be held at UCSB,
May 8-10.

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 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