[Lingtyp] Call for Abstracts: The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization

[Ryan Ka Yau Lai]

Dear all,

I am writing to send out our call for abstracts for the 27th Annual
Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization, an annual
student-led conference at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA. Although abstracts
that fit the conference theme are especially encouraged, we welcome all
work related to language in interaction.

As a more personal note, I would love to see a wider range of languages
represented at the conference, beyond the literate, official, lots of users
(LOL) languages where interactional language has been best studied. In the
last LISO conference, for example, I have presented on grammar in Tibetan
conversation, and others have presented on Kazakh and Mixtec varieties.
Given recent typological interest in grammatical forms and constructions
with inherently interactional meaning as well as how social actions are
implemented in different languages, it would be wonderful to see more
diverse languages and language communities represented.

Hope to see some folks on this list in Santa Barbara next May!

Sincerely,
Ryan Ka Yau Lai
PhD candidate
University of California, Santa Barbara

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Graduate Student
Organization <https://www.liso.ucsb.edu/> at UCSB and the Center for
Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) Graduate Student Association
<https://clic.ss.ucla.edu/clicgsa/> at UCLA and are pleased to host:

The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization

May 23-24, 2025

University of California, Santa Barbara

Theme:

Research and (Re)action

Plenary speakers

Dr. Lynnette Arnold <https://lynnettearnold.net/> – University of
Massachusetts, Amherst

Dr. Shannon Ward <https://shannonward.ca/> – University of British
Columbia, Okanagan

The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in
the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be
presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in
the study of language, interaction, and culture.

This year, the conference theme is “Research and (Re)action.” This theme
invites research that is engaged with the sociopolitical implications of
language including: language and activism, language and resistance,
language and social justice, and community-engaged approaches to research.
We have put this theme forward in the hopes of fostering conversations
about the role of language, interaction, and culture in the contemporary
global sociopolitical climate.

Abstracts for presentations are welcome from all students, both graduate
and undergraduate. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings
of naturalistic interaction are encouraged. Submissions within the scope of
the conference theme are welcomed; however, innovative work on all aspects
of language and interaction will be considered.

Please submit your abstract (up to 300 words) here
<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886/submitter> by January 17th,
2025.

Questions? Email: LISOconference at gmail.com

Abstract submissions: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886/submitter


-- 
Ryan Ka Yau Lai
PhD Candidate
Department of Linguistics
Email: kayaulai at umail.ucsb.edu
[image: UC Santa Barbara]

Website: https://rkylai.wordpress.com/
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