LINGUIST List 21.3981 Sat Oct 09 2010 Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Anna Trester, Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2011) Message 1: Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2011) Date: 06-Oct-2010 From: Anna Trester <amt23georgetown.edu> Subject: Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2011) E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2011) Short Title: Discourse 2.0 (GURT 2011) Date: 10-Mar-2011 - 13-Mar-2011 Location: Washington, DC, USA Contact Person: Anna Marie Trester Meeting Email: gurtgeorgetown.edu Web Site: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2011/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: Electronic media have come to dominate our linguistic lives. Social media such as Facebook and Twitter are reshaping people's interactions. Texting and instant messaging are transforming the very meaning of 'conversation,' while Blogs and websites are gradually replacing newspapers and television as the primary news outlets. These new worlds of words occasion innovative uses of language and new spaces for constructing identities, forming relationships, and expressing social meanings. GURT 2011 will explore how these ever-changing technologies affect ever-adapting discourse. The conference will bring together leading researchers from around the world and from various analytic perspectives, including anthropological linguistics, conversation and discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodality, variation analysis, and visual analysis. Explorations into the discourse of new media place this year's GURT at the frontier of discourse as well as media studies. Call For Papers Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 10, 2010 Website: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2011/index.html Plenary Speakers - Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg - Naomi Baron, American University - Susan Herring, Indiana University - Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University - Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington We invite submissions in all areas relevant to language and new media, including: - The language of Facebook, twitter, and other new media - The language of texting, hypertext, and other new technologies - Identity, Indexicality, and Intertextuality - Language and gender, performance, and narrative Possible themes may include: - How the medium shapes language and social interaction - How language and social interaction affect media - Intergenerational/intercultural communication - Language in medical, educational, legal, workplace, and other contexts We welcome a range of approaches, including: - Anthropological linguistics - Conversation or discourse analysis - Interactional sociolinguistics - Multimodality - Variation analysis - Visual analysis Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.