LINGUIST List 22.2594 Wed Jun 22 2011 Calls: Sociolinguistics/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     NWAV 40 , 40th New Ways of Analyzing Variation Message 1: 40th New Ways of Analyzing Variation Date: 21-Jun-2011 From: NWAV 40 <nwav40gmail.com> Subject: 40th New Ways of Analyzing Variation E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 40th New Ways of Analyzing Variation Short Title: NWAV 40 Date: 27-Oct-2011 - 30-Oct-2011 Location: Washington, DC, USA Contact Person: Natalie Schilling Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://nwav40.georgetown.edu/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2011 Meeting Description: New Ways of Analyzing Variation returns to its birthplace – Georgetown University! This special anniversary conference, hosted by the Georgetown University Linguistics Department, will take place October 27-30, 2011. All sociolinguists are interested in language variation. Some of us are counting and some of us are not, but all of us count. NWAV 40 aims to celebrate the quantitative, qualitative and eclectic approaches to the study of language variation and change that have given us so much insight over the decades, and to encourage further research from a wide range of perspectives, thereby further deepening our understanding of how language reflects and shapes personal identities, interpersonal interactions, group memberships, and social orders. Call for Papers: Our abstract submission site is open: http://linguistics.textsystems.net/nwav-2011/abstract-submission.html Please direct all inquiries to nwav40gmail.com. NWAV 40 welcomes submissions for papers, posters, organized panels, and workshops on all scientific approaches to analyzing and interpreting language variation and change, including papers that combine perspectives to enrich our understandings. Abstract Submission Deadline: July 1, 2011 at 5 p.m. EDT Papers will be 20 minutes each, with a 10-minute question-and-answer period. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, excluding title and references. Authors may submit one singly- authored and one jointly-authored paper abstract, or two jointly-authored paper abstracts. Paper abstracts will be subjected to blind review, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts. Authors may elect to have their paper abstracts considered for either a paper or poster presentation. Posters will be presented 4:30-6:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 29, in connection with a reception. Posters are typically a good format for presentations where visual display of tables, graphs, maps, etc. is particularly important. Abstracts for posters should not exceed 500 words, excluding title and references. Poster abstracts will be subjected to blind review, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts. Authors may elect to have their poster abstracts considered for either a poster or paper presentation. Panels will last 120 minutes and should consist of presentations and discussion of thematically coherent issues. Panelists are strongly encouraged to follow the regular paper schedule. Double panels will be considered. Panel proposals should consist of (1) the panel title, names and affiliations of panel organizers, and a general description of the panel not exceeding 500 words that highlights the panel's theme and importance; (2) the proposed timetable of presentations/discussions; and (3), for each paper, the title, name and affiliation of author(s), and an abstract not to exceed 300 words. The panel organizer is responsible for writing the panel proposal and gathering abstracts from each presenter. Workshops will last 120 minutes and are designed to introduce attendees to novel methods, analytical approaches, and theoretical frameworks for examining and understanding language variation and change. Workshop proposals should consist of the workshop title, names and affiliations of workshop organizers, a general description not to exceed 500 words of the aims and content of the workshop, and a proposed schedule. If workshops will consist of a series of presentations, also submit the title, name and affiliation of presenter(s), and an abstract not exceeding 300 words for each contribution. NWAV40 Organizing Committee: Natalie Schilling Robert Podesva Julie Sweetland Sakiko Kajino (NWAV40 Coordinator) nwav40gmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Jun-2011       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.