LINGUIST List 23.389 Mon Jan 23 2012 Calls: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK 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.     Ruth Page , BAAL/CUP Seminar: Language and Social Media Message 1: BAAL/CUP Seminar: Language and Social Media Date: 23-Jan-2012 From: Ruth Page <rep22le.ac.uk> Subject: BAAL/CUP Seminar: Language and Social Media E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: BAAL/CUP Seminar: Language and Social Media Date: 26-Apr-2012 - 27-Apr-2012 Location: Leicester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Ruth Page Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/language-and-social-media Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 24-Feb-2012 Meeting Description: BAAL/CUP Seminar: Language and Social Media: New Challenges for Research and Teaching Linguistics Date: 26-27 April 2012 Place: University of Leicester Co-ordinator: Dr Ruth Page Keynote Speakers: Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg) Caroline Tagg (University of Birmingham) Ashraf Abdullah (University of Leeds) For more details, please see the seminar web page: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/language-and-social-media Call for Papers: The BAAL/CUP Language and Social Media seminar invites submissions for any aspect of lingusitic research in Social Media. Proposals for 30 minute papers or for poster presentations are welcome. We invite submissions in all areas of language and social media including: Language and social network sites Language, mobile technologies, space and place Identity and interaction Performativity, authenticity, authority and fiction Gaming, transmedial narrative and intertextuality Teaching linguistics using social media We welcome a range of approaches including: Anthropological Linguistics Critical Discourse Analysis Conversation or Discourse Analysis Multimodality Corpus Linguistics Systemic Functional Linguistics Possible themes include: Challenges that social media pose for the research methods used in applied linguistics The value of terms like 'text', 'context', 'community' and 'interaction' for the analysis of social media Papers and Posters: 30 minute papers (20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes discussion) or poster presentations should address one or more of the seminar topics listed above. Format for Proposals: Proposals should be submitted as a Word or pdf file to Dr Ruth Page (rep22le.ac.uk), containing the following information: Title of proposal in bold Indicate whether the proposal is for a paper or a poster presentation Name of presenter Name and address of institution, telephone and email Text 300 words maximum 12 pt font, Left-aligned, single-spaced Proposals will be reviewed by the seminar co-ordinator and a panel of reviewers. Seminar Deadlines: 24 February 2012: Receipt of proposals 9 March 2012: Notification of proposal acceptances 12 April 2012: Payment of fees Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-Jan-2012       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.