37.1711, Confs: New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9 (Hong Kong)

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Date: 07-May-2026
From: Charles B. Chang [cbchang at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9


New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9
Short Title: NWAV-AP 9
Theme: Variation and Change at and Across Boundaries

Date: 11-Jun-2027 - 13-Jun-2027
Location: Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
Contact: NWAV-AP 9 Organizing Committee
Contact Email: nwavap9 at outlook.com
Meeting URL: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Oct-2026

Conference Dates: 11–13 June 2027
Location: Hong Kong SAR
Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong
Kong
Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/
Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027
Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2026
The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia
Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) invites abstract submissions for the conference
to be held in Hong Kong SAR from 11–13 June 2027.
Since its founding in 2011 at the University of Delhi, NWAV-AP has
served as the Asia-Pacific regional sister conference of New Ways of
Analyzing Variation (NWAV), one of the leading international
conferences in sociolinguistics. NWAV-AP brings together scholars
interested in understanding how linguistic practices vary across
speakers, communities, modalities, and social contexts, and how such
variation contributes to processes of linguistic change.
The theme of NWAV-AP 9 is: “Variation and Change at and Across
Boundaries”
The conference explores how linguistic practices emerge, evolve, and
circulate across social, geographic, political, ideological,
cognitive, disciplinary, methodological, and modal boundaries.
At Boundaries: We particularly encourage submissions examining
mobility, multilingualism, contact, marginality, hybrid identities,
sociopolitical transformation, borderlands, contact zones, minority
and heritage languages, sign languages, migration, and language
practices that challenge conventional sociolinguistic categories.
Across Boundaries: We also welcome work that crosses disciplinary and
methodological boundaries, including research connecting variationist
approaches with sociophonetics, corpus linguistics, computational
modeling, psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology, education,
disability studies, sign linguistics, and cognitive science.
Contributions bridging production and perception, speech and sign,
variation and cognition, ideology and processing, or experimental,
quantitative, ethnographic, and community-centered approaches are
especially encouraged.
Keynote Speakers:
 - Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
 - Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)
 - Tsung-Lun Alan Wan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): accommodation and
convergence; affect; applied sociolinguistics; borderlands and contact
zones; boundary-crossing methods; codeswitching and translanguaging;
cognition and language variation; computational sociolinguistics;
conversation analysis; consonants; corpus linguistics; cultural
anthropology; digital discourse; disability and accessibility;
discourse and pragmatics; embodiment and gestures; endangered and
minority languages; ethnography; experimental sociolinguistics;
heritage languages; interfaces and intersections; interdisciplinary
approaches; language acquisition and pedagogy; language attitudes;
language change; language contact and multilingualism; language
documentation; language ideology and identity; language policy;
language processing; language, gender, and sexuality; language,
migration, and mobility; language, race, and ethnicity; lexical
variation; lifespan change; methodological innovation; morphosyntactic
variation; personae and identity; place, place-making, and belonging;
prosody; psychosociolinguistics; qualia; quantitative methods;
revitalization; scholarship of language teaching; semiotics and
metapragmatics; sign languages; sign language variation; social
meaning; social stratification and distribution; sociolinguistic
perception; sociolinguistic production; sociophonetics; stance and
stance-taking; style; theory of variation and change; variation and
AI; variation and cognition; variation and pedagogy; variation in
institutions; vowels.
Submission Types:
 - Regular Papers
 - Posters
 - Project Launch (poster category)
 - Special Sessions / Themed Panels
Abstract Guidelines:
 - Maximum 500 words
 - Submission required in both text form and PDF form
 - PDF abstracts must use A4 paper size
 - Abstract body limited to one page; references and appendices may
appear on a second page
 - Abstracts may be submitted in English or Chinese (Mandarin,
Cantonese, and other Sinitic varieties written in Chinese characters)
Special Session / Themed Panel proposals should be submitted both
through the Microsoft CMT submission portal and via email to:
nwavap9 at outlook.com
Important Dates:
 - Abstract submission opens: 15 May 2026
 - Abstract submission deadline: 1 October 2026
 - Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2027
 - Early bird registration deadline: 1 March 2027
 - Conference dates: 11–13 June 2027
For further information:
Conference website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/index.html
Submission instructions and call details:
https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/callforpaper.html
Abstract submission platform:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027
Email: nwavap9 at outlook.com



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