Deadline: January 25, 2020
SALSA XXVIII:
Texts in Circulation: Language, Power, and Identity
April 10-11, 2020
The University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Arienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)
Dr. Monica Heller (University of Toronto)
Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller (University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Maria Sidorkina (University of Texas at Austin)
The annual Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is now accepting submissions for April 10-11th, 2020. 2020’s theme Texts in Circulation: Language, Power, and Identity continues SALSA’s tradition of promoting the study of language and its intersection with society. Originally created through the joint efforts of students from the departments of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Communication Studies at The University of Texas, SALSA grew as a transdisciplinary conference through presentations from a variety of fields, including foreign language education, educational psychology, media studies, and the language departments of French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, German, and English. SALSA’s annual proceedings appear in special editions of the Texas Linguistic Forum.
The study of language and communication has focused on power and identity at multiple levels of linguistic expression, such as: grammatical forms, rhetorical strategies, and full discourses. Power and identity interact with texts of any modality, including written, signed, spoken, gestured, and visualized. We welcome papers from all disciplines which examine how power and identity are expressed through the medium of texts, and explore questions such as:
- How are identities developed and expressed in different social situations?
- How do language ideologies influence social behavior?
- What rhetorical and poetic resources in language reflect particular linguistic or cultural groups?
- How can particular linguistic traditions and forms help us understand the nexus of language, culture, and the individual?
- How can languages be revived, revitalized, and/or maintained through language policies and planning?
- In what ways do social media and other forms of mass media impact language use and change?
- How does political discourse transform societies?
Submission Guidelines
The deadline for abstract submission is January 25, 2020.
Please send 300- to 500-word abstracts to salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com
Subject: SALSA XXVIII Abstract
Please include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract (with the exception of title, which should appear in both):
- Paper Title
- Author’s name (if more than one author, list primary author first followed by subsequent authors)
- Author(s) affiliation
- E-mail address at which authors prefers to be contacted
- Font: Times New Roman, size 12; 1.5 inter-line spacing
- Equipment required for presentation
For more information, see https://linguistics.github.io/salsa/index.html
Questions can be sent to salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com