[Linganth] Call for papers: SALSA XXIV

[Nora Tyeklar]

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*SALSA XXIV:*
*Raising Voices*

April 15-16, 2016 at University of Texas at Austin

The Symposium About Language and Society (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.

This year's theme is *Raising Voices*. It is by raising voices that various
cultures overlap, connect, and share with each other. Languages encode
methods for cultivating the voices of both individuals and groups, drawn
together in solidarity through shared experience, growth, hardship, and
loss. How are linguistic mechanisms used to cultivate these identities and
sense of self? How can we utilize language to amplify cultural voices, and
how do we interpret cultural silence? How do ideologies underpin who go
gets to raise their voices and who is silenced? How do we use voice to
build bridges from within, across, and at the peripheries of cultures when
certain voices have been silenced as a result of colonial oppressions,
dominant discourses or ways of communicating? With new technologies
regularly available, how do we reconstruct voices that have been lost or
silenced? SALSA XXIV seeks to explore these questions and more in order to
contribute to literature in linguistics, anthropology, communication
sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as queer, critical race, area,
and women's and gender studies.

This year's keynote speakers will be:

*Dr. Rusty Barrett *
University of Kentucky

*Dr. Diana Boxer *
University of Florida

*Dr. Courtney Handman *
The University of Texas at Austin

*Dr. Norma Mendoza-Denton*
University of California Los Angeles

The committee of SALSA XXIV welcome papers from all disciplines; potential
topics might fall under the following areas:

   - Language and law, politics, or economics
   - Access and issues in interpretation
   - The aesthetics and politics of translation
   - Dialectology and standardization
   - Bi-/multilingualism
   - Pidginization and creolization
   - Language ideologies
   - Language and identity - gender, race, & sexuality
   - Language and human rights
   - Language and the arts, sciences, and technology
   - Language and cognition
   - Languages in contact
   - The sounds of language: voice, voicing and silences
   - Sounds, signs, gestures
   - Language acquisition, shift and loss
   - Language preservation, documentation, and revitalisation


Of course, topics are not restricted to those listed, but are merely meant
to serve as guideposts. Please feel free to submit papers related to this
year’s theme.

*Submission Guidelines*

The deadline for abstract submission is *January 22, 2016*.

Please send abstracts to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
*Subject: SALSA XXIV Abstract*

Please include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract,
(with the exception of title, which should appear in both):

   1. Paper Title
   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

For more information, see http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/
Questions can be sent to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com


*Co-Chairs*

Conference presented by the SALSA Graduate Student Organization at UT
Austin.

Eric Holgate (Linguistics) - holgate at utexas.edu  <holgate at utexas.edu>
Sandie Keerstock (Linguistics) - keerstock at utexas.edu
<keerstock at utexas.edu>
Luke Pinette (Linguistics) - lkpinette at gmail.com  <lkpinette at gmail.com>
Nora Tyeklar (Anthropology) - ntyeklar at utexas.edu   <ntyeklar at utexas.edu>

SALSA
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Linguistics
College of Liberal Arts Building (CLA) 4.304
Phone: (512) 471-1701
Email: salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
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