LINGUIST List 21.4451 Sat Nov 06 2010 Calls: Socioling, Media Linguistics/Spain 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.     Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy , Sociolinguistics and the Media Message 1: Sociolinguistics and the Media Date: 05-Nov-2010 From: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy <jmcampoyum.es> Subject: Sociolinguistics and the Media E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Sociolinguistics and the Media Short Title: SM Date: 08-Sep-2011 - 11-Sep-2011 Location: Logroño (La Rioja), Spain Contact Person: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy Meeting Email: jmcampoyum.es Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Other Specialty: Media Linguistics Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: As we know, Sociolinguistics is that area of Linguistics which deals with the relationships between language and society. It specifically focuses on how human beings actually use language in social interaction in their everyday lives, and its studies are made of languages in their social context entirely. To simplify somewhat, its concerns are to learn more about language by investigating topics such as the mechanisms of linguistic change, the nature of linguistic variability, and the structure of linguistic systems. Through the correlation of extralinguistic factors, such as socio- demographic and/or context variables, with linguistic variables, Sociolinguistics is being able to detect, locate, describe and explain the symmetry existing between social variation and linguistic variation in terms of sociolinguistic variation. Significance is understood as the causality relationship of linguistic and extralinguistic data. The samples used from mass media communication have been demonstrated to be very useful sources for the study of styling and the analysis of linguistic variation and change. On the one hand, style enjoys a pivotal position in sociolinguistic variation, with stylistic (or intra-speaker) variation constituting a principal component together with linguistic variation and social (or inter-speaker) variation. On the other, language variation and change are one of the two sides of the sociolinguistic coin (together with linguistic diversity), constituting one of the great unsolved mysteries of linguistic science, and consequently a challenge to generations of scholars so far. In many ways, they reflect the multifaceted shaping of human relationships for the transmission of social meaning. The aim of this workshop is to show results and conclusions from different empirical studies carried out in different and distant languages, focussing on variationist phenomena of language use and choice, and emphasizing theoretical as well as methodological aspects. Call For Papers -All presentations will be 20 minutes plus a 10 minute question time. -Interested researchers in taking part in this workshop are kindly invited to contact J.M. Hernández-Campoy (jmcampoyum.es) with their name, affiliation and a provisional title by 12 November 2010. -If the present workshop proposal is accepted (the date of notification being 15th December 2010), abstracts should be submitted to SLE' conference website (http: //sle2011.cilap.es/) by 15 January 2011. Important Dates (Summary): -Submission of provisional title: 12 November 2010. -Notification of acceptance of workshop proposal: 15th December 2010. -If the workshop proposal is accepted then all abstracts will need to be submitted to SLE by 15th January 2011, via the SLE conference website: http://sle2011.cliap.es -Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2011 -Registration: From April 2011 onwards -Conference: 8-11 September 2011 Prof. Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy (Dr.) Departamento de Filología Inglesa Facultad de Letras Campus de La Merced Universidad de Murcia 30071 Murcia (Spain) Tel.: +34-868-88.31.81 Tel. Móvil: 629-552424 Fax.: +34-868-88.31.85 E-Mail: jmcampoyum.es Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Nov-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.