LINGUIST List 22.3893 Thu Oct 06 2011 Calls: Discourse Analysis, Socioling, Anthro Ling/Finland 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.     Mister Frog , Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication Message 1: Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication Date: 05-Oct-2011 From: Mister Frog <editor.rmnnewslettergmail.com> Subject: Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication Date: 23-May-2012 - 25-May-2012 Location: Helsinki, Finland Contact Person: Kaarina Koski Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 18-Nov-2011 Meeting Description: Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication 'Register' originated as a term in linguistics for contextual variation in language, or language as it is used in a particular communicative situation. This term and concept has become important across several intersecting disciplines, particularly in discussions of genre and approaches to language in written versus oral communication. As a consequence, 'register' has been used by folklorists, linguists and linguistic anthropologists with varying fields of inclusion and exclusion, ranging from the purely verbal level of communication to all features which have the capacity to signify (props, gestures, etc.). Uses of 'register' have become highly diversified within the scholarship of each field, and the different fields have not opened a discourse with one another on this topic. This colloquium is intended to bring together representatives of diverse perspectives in order to open cross-disciplinary discussion of the term and concept 'register'. Keynote Speakers: Asif Agha, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ruth Finnegan, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Open University, UK John Miles Foley, Professor of Classical Studies and English, University of Missouri, USA Jim Wilce, Professor of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, USA Susanna Shore, Adjunct Professor of Finnish Language, University of Helsinki, Finland Call for Papers: We welcome participant presentations on register and variation from all disciplines. Presentations are requested to be accessible to participants from other fields and open to cross-disciplinary discussion. If you would like to take part in this event by presenting a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to Kaarina Koski (kaarina.koskihelsinki.fi) by Friday 18 November 2011. Papers presentations should be twenty minutes in length allowing ten minutes for discussion. If you would like to participate without presenting a paper, please let us know by the end of February, and also whether you would be interested in moderating a session. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Oct-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.