Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:05:17 -0500

From: Toshiko Hamaguchi HAMAGUCT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET

Subject: Call for Papers



CALL FOR PAPERS



The Georgetown Linguistics Society

presents



DISCOURSE AS MOSAIC

linguistic re/production

of

identities & ideologies



GLS 1996

October 11-13, 1996 at Georgetown University



mosaic i.a. Pertaining to that form of art in which pictures and

patterns are produced by the joining together of minute pieces of

glass, stone, or other hard substances of different colors.



The theme of GLS 1996, Discourse as Mosaic: linguistic re/production

of identities and ideologies, captures the multiple ways in which

linguistic features and strategies create and reflect coherent social

meanings. We encourage papers which illuminate how local linguistic

practices produce and reproduce identities andd ideologies, and how,

in turn, identities and ideologies simultaneously constrain those

practices. The metaphor of mosaic stems from this relationship: the

interaction of small and large patterns to yield a coherent whole.

Works submitted may include, but are not limited to, such areas as

discourse in the media, the workplace, the classroom, everyday

conversation, and in medical, political, legal, religious, and other

institutional contexts. Papers should be based on natural language

data.



SUBMISSIONS. Abstracts must be received by GLS no later than Friday,

March 18, 1996. Individual presentation of papers will be 20 minutes

long with 10 additional minutes for discussion. Please send three

copies of an anonymous 500-word double-spaced abstract (hard copy

preferred, e-mail accepted). On a separate sheet, provide your name,

paper title, mailing and e-mail address, phone number, and

institutional affiliation. In addition, please submit a 100 word

summary of the paper for the conference program.



For further information:

GLS 1996

Georgetown University

Department of Linguistics, Box 571051

Washington, DC 20057-1051

voice: (202) 687-6166

gls[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu