Call for Papers: SALSA XXII (Symposium About Language and Society, Austin)

[Lia Siewert]

Below is the information for SALSA XXII, a graduate student conference held
in Austin, TX, at the University of Texas. The deadline for abstracts is
February 7.

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Call for Papers--SALSA XXII



The 2014 Symposium About Language and Society--Austin will be held April 11
and 12 at the University of Texas at Austin.



SALSA is an annual symposium promoting linguistic and sociolinguistic
research at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally created through
the joint efforts of students from the Linguistic and Anthropology
Departments at the University of Texas, SALSA has developed into an
interdisciplinary conference with contributions from various fields,
including communication studies, foreign language education, educational
psychology, media studies, speech communication, and numerous language
departments. Our annual proceedings appear in special editions of Texas
Linguistic Forum.



The theme for this year's symposium is Language Ideologies and Language
Structure. We invite the submission of abstracts regarding language as it
relates to these categories. Examples of topics include but are not limited
to:



Education and language

Literacies

Verbal art

Gender and language

Language acquisition

Bi- and multilingualism

Sociolinguistics

Language change

Language revitalization



SALSA Featured Speakers:



Jillian Cavanaugh, Brooklyn College

Paul Kockelman, University of Texas at Austin

Danny Law, University of Texas at Austin

Barbra Meek, University of Michigan



Speakers are allowed 20 minutes each for presentations and 10 minutes total
for discussion at the end of sessions. Papers will be selected based on the
evaluation of anonymous abstracts, which may not exceed 250 words.
Electronic submissions are required. Paper must not be already published.

SUBMISSIONS: Deadline for receipt of abstracts is February 7, 2014. Please
send abstracts to salsautaustin at gmail.com, Subject: SALSA XXII Abstract.
Please include the following in your message but NOT in the abstract,
besides title:



1.     Title of paper

2.     Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first
followed by subsequent authors)

3.     Author's affiliation

4.     E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted

5.     Equipment required for presentation



Registration costs, payable to PayPal on the SALSA website:



Non-student:

            On-site: $60    Pre-registration: $50

Student:

            On-site: $30    Pre-registration: $25



Additional information: studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa

Questions can be sent to salsautaustin at gmail.com

Conference presented by the SALSA Graduate Student Organization at UT Austin