Call for Papers: 18th annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), UCLA May 10-12, 2012

[Rachel Flamenbaum]

*18th Annual*

*Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture*


May 10-12, 2012 University of California, Los Angeles



Presented by

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student
Association (CLIC-GSA) at the University of California, Los Angeles

and

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student
Association (LISO-GSA)

at the University of California, Santa Barbara



*Plenary Speakers*

*Penelope Eckert*
Anthropology and Linguistics, Stanford University

*William Hanks*
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

*Jenny Mandelbaum*
Communication, Rutgers University

*Cheryl Mattingly*
Anthropology and Occupational Science and Therapy, University of Southern
California

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language,
interaction, and culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to,
conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication,
ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and
language socialization.

Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students
and faculty.  Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of
naturalistic interaction are encouraged.  Speakers will have 20
minutes forpresentation and 10 minutes
for discussion. A subset of papers presented at the conference will be
published in the conference proceedings, *Crossroads of Language,
Interaction, and Culture, Volume 9, 2012*.

Abstracts are due no later than *Friday,* *January 20, 2012*, *by* *electronic
submission only*. The submission guidelines are provided below and on the
CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/).<http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/>



Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association
(CLIC-GSA)

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Applied Linguistics

P.O. BOX 951531 3300 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531

clicgsa at humnet.ucla.edu

*http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/*
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES



Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website (
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/callforpapers.htm). Please provide the
following information:



   - Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
   - The name(s) of the author(s)
   - The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
   - The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address
fornotification
   - The title of the paper
   - An abstract no longer than 500 words
   - Any additional comments

Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper;
briefly discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous
research and the work’s relevance to developments in the field; and may
include a short example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions
should be stated, however tentative.



Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed
by scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as
anthropology, applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations
and posters will be accepted based on reviewers’ evaluations of the
anonymous abstracts.



The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is *Friday, January 20, 2012.*

**Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via e-mail in
March 2012.



Conference registration is free and will be accessible at the CLIC-GSA
website:

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/registration.htm