CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION University of California, Santa Barbara May 30-31, 2015

Deadline for abstracts is Jan 31.

CALL FOR PAPERS

*Please give widest distribution*

THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON

LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

University of California, Santa Barbara

May 30-31, 2015

Presented by:

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO)

Graduate Student Organization at UCSB

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The Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC)

Graduate Student Association at UCLA

 PLENARY SPEAKERS

Peter Eglin

Wilfrid Laurier University

Sociology

Norma Mendoza-Denton

UCLA

Anthropology

Marjorie Orellana

UCLA

Education

THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON

LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The papers primarily employ analysis of naturally occurring data drawing from methodologies that include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnographic methods, ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, and interactional sociolinguistics. The conference theme this year is “Studying Interaction, Advancing Social Justice: Identities, Ideologies, and Inequalities”. We welcome abstracts from graduate students and faculty working in the areas of Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Communication, Education, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology. Presenters will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts must be submitted via email to lisoconference@gmail.com. Submissions should include author information, affiliation, and contact information in the body of the email only, with abstract attachments made completely anonymous.

Abstracts must be submitted in .doc, .docx, or .pdf, format only. Abstracts must be no more than 500 words long and should not include the author's name or any other identifying information. The abstract should include the following: (1) a clear statement of the main point or argument of the paper; (2) a brief discussion of the problem or research question with reference to previous research and the work's relevance to the area of study; (3) a short piece of data to support the main point or argument; (4) conclusions and/or implications of the research, however tentative.

In the case of an abstract longer than 500 words, only the first 500 words will be read. Papers will be selected based on evaluation of the anonymous abstract.

Abstract submission opens on December 1, 2014. Deadline for electronic submission and receipt of abstracts is January 31, 2015. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email no later than March 31, 2015.

For additional information, please visit:

http://liso.ucsblinguist.org

Questions can be sent to: LISOconference@gmail.com