LINGUIST List 6.1703

Tue Dec 5 1995

Calls: Language and Society (SALSA)

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1. Alice R. Chu, Symposium About Language and Society--Austin: Call for Papers

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 CALL for PAPERS
 __________________________________________________________

 S A L S A
 __________________________________________________________

The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its
=46ourth Annual Meeting to be held April 12-14, 1996 at the University of
Texas at Austin. We encourage the submission of abstracts on research that
addresses the relationship of language to culture and society. Some
examples of desired frameworks for this research include:


 LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
 SOCIOLINGUISTICS
 ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION
 SPEECH PLAY, VERBAL ART, AND POETICS
 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LANGUAGE

 1996 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 Shirley Brice Heath Stanford University
 Yolanda Lastra Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=
=E9xico
 Marcyliena Morgan University of California, Los Angele=
s

Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special edition
of the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected based
on the evaluation of an anonymous written abstract which may not exceed one
page (using 10 pt. font or larger). Please submit six (6) copies of the
proposal, on 81/2 x 11 paper, to the address below. Proposals should be
accompanied by a 3x5 card with the following information: 1) The title of
the paper; 2) Author's name; 3) Author's affiliation; 4) Address and phone
number at which the author wishes to be notified. In addition, please
submit a 100 word abstract of the paper, on a 3.5" disk, for publication in
the conference program. Discs can be either Macintosh or IBM, but texts
must be word-processed in A) text-only ASCII or B) Microsoft Word (Mac or
IBM). Please label your disk clearly.

Submissions much be received by January 17, 1996. Late submissions will
not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers which are to be published
elsewhere. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in
mid-February, 1996. Registration fees will be $15 for students and $30 for
non-students. Papers must be received by early May 1996 to be included in
the published proceedings.

Send all correspondences to:

 SALSA
 Department of Linguistics
 University of Texas at Austin
 Austin, TX 78712
 Email: SALSAccwf.cc.utexas.edu
 WWW site: http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/salsa.html