9th International Workshop on ish Sociolinguistics

9th International Workshop on ish Sociolinguistics

Date : 04-Apr-2018 - 07-Apr-2018
Location : Queens College-CUNY, New York, USA
Contact Person : Laura Villa
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Web Site : https://sites.google.com/a/qc.cuny.edu/wss9qc/

Linguistic Field(s) : Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s) : ish

Call Deadline : 01-Oct-2017

Meeting Description :

The International Workshop on ish Sociolinguistics is a conference that brings together scholars interested on the study of language in society with a particular focus on ish or contact situations between ish and other languages. All fields and methodologies are welcome at this conference, including synchronic and diachronic approaches to language, quantitative and qualitative research, language variation and change, contact linguistics, bilingualism and multilingualism, ish in the US, pidgin and creole languages, language policy and planning, and language ideologies.

The 9th edition of the International Workshop on ish Sociolinguistics will be held at Queens College, City University of New York on April 4-7, 2018.

This year the conference will open on Wednesday, April 4th with two great workshops. Individual presentations and organized panels will take place from Thursday, April 5th to Saturday, April 7th. There will be a poster session and reception (with finger food, wine and a little show !) on the evening of Thursday, April 5th. The conference dinner (with music, of course !) will be held at a Peruvian restaurant in Jackson Heights on the evening of Friday, April 6th. This year we have three outstanding keynote speakers, Elvira Arnoux, Pedro Martín Butragueño and Ana Celia Zentella.

Organizing committee : Elizabeth Ijalba, Michael Newman, Juan Rodríguez Aponte, Laura Villa

Call for Papers :

We invite abstracts on any aspect of sociolinguistic research for individual papers, organized panels and poster presentations.

Individual presenters should submit an abstract of 300 words in length. Individual papers will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Panel organizers should submit a 300-word description of the panel together with a 300-word abstract for each presentation. Organized panels can consist of 3 or 4 participants for a total of 90 minutes or 120 minutes, respectively. Presenters that would prefer to share their research in a one-on-one poster session should submit a 300-word description of their poster proposal.

Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per person.

Suggested Areas of Research :

- Synchronic and diachronic approaches
- Quantitative and qualitative research
- Language variation and change
- Contact linguistics
- Bilingualism and Multilingualism
- ish in the U.S.
- Pidgin & creole languages
- Language policy and planning
- Language ideologies

Abstract Submission Guidelines :

Abstracts must be submitted through EasyAbstracts at : http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/WSS9.

Abstracts should indicate the type of presentation (individual presentation, organized panel or poster). Please remove authors’ information from the document submitted.

Important Dates :

Submission deadline : October 1, 2017
Acceptance notification : November 15, 2017
Conference dates : April 4-7, 2018

Contact Us :

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