37.3220, Confs: 31st Symposium About Language and Society at Austin (USA)

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Subject: 37.3220, Confs: 31st Symposium About Language and Society at Austin (USA)

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Date: 05-Oct-2026
From: Maximilian Conrad [mxconrad at utexas.edu]
Subject: 31st Symposium About Language and Society at Austin


31st Symposium About Language and Society at Austin
Short Title: SALSA
Theme: Rites and Ritual

Date: 15-Jan-2027 - 16-Jan-2027
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Contact: Maximilian Conrad
Contact Email: mxconrad at utexas.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 16-Oct-2026

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kristina Wirtz (Western Michigan University)
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 XXXI, which will take place January 15-16, 2027.
The deadline for submissions is October 16, 2026.
The theme for SALSA XXXI is “Rites and Ritual”: How can language forge
identities and shape the way we encounter the social in ritualized
life, both religious and secular? One panel will be thematically
focused on the conference theme. 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, LLMs, and AI
 - Language policy and planning
 - Language education
 - Speech play and verbal art
 - 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 16, 2026.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, Times New Roman, size
12; 1.5 inter-line spacing as an attachment to
salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com
Subject: SALSA XXXI 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):
 - Consideration for thematic panel?: Yes No
 - Author(s) affiliation:
 - E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted:
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, Maximilian Conrad (chair), Feiyao Liao, and Sara Gace.
SALSA
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Anthropology
William C. Powers (WCP) 4.114
Phone: (512) 471-4206
Email: salsa.austin.tx at gmail.com



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