CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday Feb 22
The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
>> May 22-24, 2008 <<
Presented by:
The Center for Language, Interaction and Culture
Graduate Student Association at the University of California, Los Angeles
&
The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization
Graduate Student Association at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language socialization.
Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students and faculty. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of naturalistic interaction are encouraged. Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. A subset of papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture, Volume 7, 2009.
Abstracts are due no later than Friday, February 22, 2008 (note new deadline), by electronic submission only.
Online conference registration is free.
Please provide the following information:
- Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for notification
- The title of the paper
- Any equipment requirements
- An abstract no longer than 500 words
- Any additional comments
Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper; briefly discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous research and the work's relevance to developments in the field; and may include a short example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be stated, however tentative.
Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed by scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology, applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters will be accepted based on reviewers' evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Friday, February 22, 2008. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via e-mail in March 2008.