28.4512, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-4512. Fri Oct 27 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.4512, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:31:50
From: Kelsie Gillig [gilligk at utexas.edu]
Subject: SALSA XXVI: Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity

Full Title: SALSA XXVI: Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity 

Date: 20-Apr-2018 - 21-Apr-2018
Location: Austin, TX, USA 
Contact Person: SALSA co-chairs N/A
Meeting Email: salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
Web Site: https://linguistics.github.io/salsa/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual
symposium promoting the study of language and its intersection with society.
Originally created through the joint efforts of students from the Linguistics,
Anthropology, and Communication Studies Departments at The University of
Texas, SALSA has developed into an interdisciplinary conference with
contributions from various fields, including foreign language education,
educational psychology, media studies, and language departments, including
French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, German, and English. Our conference
annual proceedings appear in special editions of Texas Linguistic Forum.

This year's conference theme is Language in Society: Culture, Space, and
Identity. Language is a distinctly human characteristic, central to all human
social organization. It is the medium through which humans shape their
identities, relate to one another, and construct social realities. The
conference will focus on the ways speakers from diverse sociohistorical and
cultural backgrounds use language to negotiate their identities in particular
spaces. We welcome both diachronic and synchronic perspectives for the study
of language in society.

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Call for Papers:

SALSA XXVI:
Language in Society: Culture, Space, and Identity
April 20-21, 2018 
The University of Texas at Austin 

This year's conference will focus on the ways speakers from diverse
sociohistorical and cultural backgrounds use language to negotiate their
identities in particular spaces. We welcome both diachronic and synchronic
perspectives for the study of language in society. 

We encourage papers that address questions such as:

- In what manner do different linguistic identities interact and evolve?
- How are identities developed and expressed in different social situations?
- How do language ideologies influence social behavior? 
- What rhetorical and poetic resources in language reflect particular
linguistic or cultural groups?
- How can particular linguistic traditions and forms help us understand the
nexus of  language, culture, and the individual?
- How do varying notions of space and place interact with language?  
- How do technological spaces provide new linguistic opportunities?
- How do linguistic landscapes play a role in situations of language contact? 
- How can languages be revived, revitalized, and/or maintained through
language policies and planning?
- In what ways do social media and other forms of mass media impact language
use and change?
- How does political discourse transform societies?
- How can we use language to analyze the ideological underpinnings that shape
and sustain the existence of borders?
- How can emerging political scenarios, such as Catalonia vis a vis Spain,
inform us about the relationship between language, community and identity? 

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

- Language and social interaction
- Gesture and embodiment
- Language and cognition
- Language ideologies
- Sign language studies
- Language attitudes 
- Verbal art and speech play
- Language in the media
- Language and advertising
- Language and technology
- Language policy and planning
- Linguistic landscaping studies
- Interactive construction of meaning
- Language preservation, documentation, and revitalization 
- Language acquisition, shift, and loss
- Bi-/multi-lingualism
- Languages in contact
- Pidgins and creoles
- Language and law, politics, and economics 
- Linguistic and cultural identity - nationality, gender, race, &  sexuality

These topics are meant to serve as guideposts. Please feel free to submit
papers on other topics related to this year's theme.

Submission Guidelines:

The deadline for abstract submission is January 14, 2018.

Please send 300 to 500 words abstracts to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
Subject: SALSA XXVI Abstract

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

- Paper Title 
- Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first followed
by subsequent authors)
- Author(s) affiliation 
- E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted 
- Font: Times New Roman, size: 12; 1.5 inter-line spacing
- Equipment required for presentation 

For more information, see https://linguistics.github.io/salsa/index.html
Questions can be sent to salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com

SALSA Co-Chairs:

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

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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