The
Society holds a Linguistics conference and a Language and Society
conference in alternate years.
2010
Conference
The
12th New Zealand Language and Society Conference
will be hosted by Institute
of Culture, Discourse and Communication, AUT University,
Auckland
22-23
November 2010.
Download pdf
of first call for papers
here
Details of first call are given below:
Abstract
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2010
Keynote
Speakers
Janet Holmes, Victoria
University of Wellington
Felicity Cox, Macquarie University, Sydney
Abstracts are invited for presentations in all areas of
sociolinguistics, and from any region or
language of the world. Papers should contain both a social and a
linguistic
dimension.
Appropriate themes include:
Anthropological
linguistics
Bilingualism
Code switching
Dialects in contact
Ethnographic sociolinguistics
Language accommodation
Language
and cultures
Language
and
ethnicities
Language
and genders
Language
and
identities
Language
and media
Language
and social networks
Language
attitudes
Language
change
Language
choice
Language
contact
Language
endangerment and death
Language
ideologies
Language
maintenance and shift
|
Language
policy and planning
Language
style
Language
variation
Multilingualism
Perceptual
dialectology
Performance
language
Social
and geographical dialectology
Social
and
linguistic aspects of conversation analysis
Social
and
linguistic aspects of discourse analysis
Social
and linguistic aspects of pragmatics
Social
psychology of language
Sociolinguistic
methodologies
Sociolinguistic
theory
Sociolinguistics
of NZ English
Sociolinguistics
of other NZ languages
Sociolinguistics
of Pasifika languages
Sociolinguistics
of pidgins and creoles
Sociolinguistics
of te reo Maori |
Submission
Guidelines
All
sessions will be 30 minutes
long, with 20 minutes for presentation and up to 10 minutes for
discussion.
Please
submit abstracts by email no
later than 31 July 2010
to languageandsociety@aut.ac.nz
In the body of the email,
include:
- title
of the paper
- name(s)
and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- indication
of which author(s) will present the paper
- name
of contact author, with email address, postal address, phone and fax
numbers.
Attach
to the email a separate
Word or PDF document containing the title and abstract of the paper
(but no
identification of authorship). Abstracts should be no more than 250
words long.
Abstracts
will be reviewed anonymously
by the Programme Committee, and evaluated on grounds of their scope and
quality. Authors will be notified of the outcome of their submission by
20
August 2010.
Important
Dates
Submission
deadline date: 31 July 2010
Abstract notification date: 20 August
Registration early bird rates close: 23 September
The
conference will begin at
approximately 9.30am on Monday 22 November, and close at approximately
5.30pm
on Tuesday 23 November. There will be a conference dinner on the
evening of Monday
22nd.
Registration
Opens
on 1 June 2010. Earlybird registration will close on 23 September.
Conference
Committee
Allan
Bell (chair), Andy Gibson,
Darryl Hocking, Bronwen Innes (University
of Auckland),
Pat Strauss, Catherine
Watson (University
of Auckland),
Kristie
Elphick (administrator)
Contact
Details
The
Conference Administrator can
be contacted by:
email at
languageandsociety@aut.ac.nz
phone on +64 9 921 9999 ext 8473
Sponsors
The
conference is receiving
sponsorship from:
Faculty
of Applied Humanities, AUT
University
School
of Languages & Social Sciences, AUT University
Website
www.aut.ac.nz/languageandsociety
Student
conference grants
The Chris Corne monopod travel award is given by the Linguistic Society
of NZ to students who present a paper at Linguistic Society of NZ
conferences (including Language and Society conferences). It pays half
of the receipted transport costs from the NZ university at which the
student is based to the conference. To receive the award students
should
present the relevant page from the conference programme and a copy of
the receipt for the travel to the Treasurer of the Society
(heidi.quinn@canterbury.ac.nz)
) after the conference at which they have
presented.
The award will be made at the discretion of the Treasurer.
Student
travel awards
The Terry Crowley memorial travel award is available to linguistics
thesis students (Masters & PhD) enrolled at a NZ university who
are paid-up members of
the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. The award pays half of the
receipted transport costs from the
NZ university at which the student
is
based to another NZ university where they give an oral presentation
about their thesis research. To receive the award, the thesis student
needs to submit to the Treasurer of the Society
(heidi.quinn@canterbury.ac.nz):
- an
abstract of the talk presented
- a
supporting e-mail from the department where they are studying
- a
supporting e-mail from the department that hosted the talk
- a
copy of the receipt for the airfare
The award will be made at the discretion of the Treasurer. The number
of
awards a student can apply for will initially be capped at one per
year.
Past
Conferences
The
2008 Language and Society conference was held at Otago University
in Dunedin in November 2008 click here
to go to the website for this conference
Schedule
of Conferences 2010-2013
note that from 2011 the
alternation of general linguistics conferences and Language and Society
conferences will cease, and each conference will be open to all areas
of linguistics
Linguistic
Conferences
11
Victoria
12 Auckland (provisional)
13 Canterbury (provisional)
Language
and Society Conferences
10
AUT
