[Linganth] Call for papers: SALSA XXX

[Will Norton]

Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA):

January 16-17, 2026

The University of Texas at Austin

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Luke Fleming (University of Montreal)

The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual
conference that brings together scholars from around the world who study
the social life of language. We are now accepting submissions for SALSA XXX,
which will take place January 16-17, 2026. The deadline for submissions is
October 6, 2025.

One panel at this year’s conference will be devoted to the theme “Taboo and
Transgression.” For the other panels, we welcome papers on any topic
concerning the use of language in social life. Potential topics include,
but are not limited to:

   - Language and social interaction
   - Gesture and embodiment
   - Language ideologies
   - Semiotics
   - New media and AI
   - Language policy and planning


   - Language documentation and revitalization
   - Raciolinguistics
   - Multilingualism and language contact
   - Political communication
   - Language and posthumanism

If you would like to submit your paper for consideration on the thematic
panel, please indicate so on your proposal. If your proposal is not
accepted to the thematic panel, you will still be considered for the
conference as a whole.


Submission Guidelines


The deadline for abstract submission is October 6, 2025.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words as an attachment to salsa
.austin.tx at gmail.com

Subject: SALSA XXX Abstract


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



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   Paper Title
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   Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first
   followed by subsequent authors)
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   Consideration for thematic panel?:   Yes ___       No ___
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   Author(s) affiliation
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   E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted
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   Font: Times New Roman, size 12; 1.5 inter-line spacing
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   Equipment required for presentation


For more information about the conference, see https://sites.utexas.edu/
salsa/

Questions can be sent to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com


Conference Organizers


The conference is presented by the SALSA Graduate Student Organization at
UT-Austin, Jessica Bernard (co-chair), Kristina Juergensmeyer (co-chair),
Will Norton, and Maximilian Conrad.

SALSA

University of Texas at Austin

Department of Anthropology

William C. Powers (WCP) 4.1144

Phone: (512) 471-4206

Email: salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
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