[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] 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.

This year, we are extremely lucky to have Shannon Ward as one of our
keynote speakers. Many on this list likely know her for her groundbreaking
work on Tibetan, both in Amdo and in diaspora communities. Given this
opportunity, I would really appreciate seeing a wider representation of
Trans-Himalayan/Tibeto-Burman languages at the conference, since like most
venues on interactional language, most of our presentations have typically
focused on literate, official and lots of users (LOL) languages (I believe
I presented the only non-Sinitic Trans-Himalayan/Tibeto-Burman language in
the last iteration of the conference in 2022).

Apologies for cross-posting, and hope to see some folks on this list in
Santa Barbara in May!

Sincerely,
Ryan

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


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

Website: https://rkylai.wordpress.com/
Zoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/my/kayaulai
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NJ-3M8QAAAAJ&hl
GitHub, X, bluesky: @kayaulai
Selected recent publications:
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau & Michelle Man-Long Pang. 2023. Rethinking the description
and typology of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions: a dynamic
constructionist lens. *Languages* 8(2). 151.
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020151.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau, Yujie Li & Shujie Zhang. 2023. Text segmentation
similarity revisited: a flexible distance-based approach for multiple
boundary types. *Proceedings of the Society for Computation in
Linguistics* 6(1).
300–309. https://doi.org/10.7275/FK79-FV58.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau, Lily Zihe Yin, Alice Yimeng Zhang, Yuting Jiang, Bill
Shiyang Xin & Junwei Gao. 2023. Turn design, resonance and epistemic stance
in the Diamond Sutra: A dialogic constructionist approach. In *Proceedings
of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and
Computation*, 753–763.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau. 2023. From annotation to analysis: Exploring
conversational dynamics with rezonateR. In *Proceedings of the 37th Pacific
Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation*, 303–313.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau. 2024. Beyond anaphoric and emphatic: diversity and unity
in the functions of literary Chinese reflexive zì. *Folia Linguistica*.
https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/flin-2023-2042.
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