Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:52:06 -0500

From: Shari Kendall KENDALLS[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: Call for papers- GLS conference on discourse



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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



DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS AND SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS: MARCH 18, 1996





Plenary Speakers

* Livia Polanyi * Susan Philips * William O'Barr *

* Marcyliena Morgan * Judith Irvine * Shirley Brice Heath *



Symposium Organizers

* Charlotte Linde * Amy Sheldon *

* Heidi Hamilton * Patricia O'Connor * Deborah Tannen *



Details on workshops with plenaries will appear in future mailings





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 and symposia 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 and symposia should be based on

naturally occurring language data.



SUBMISSIONS.

Abstracts and symposium proposals must be received by GLS no later than

Monday, 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 addresses, phone number, and institutional affiliation.

In addition, please submit a 100 word summary of your paper for the

conference program.



The GLS invites proposals for two-hour symposia. Please send all abstracts

for presentation in a symposium together, accompanied by a cover letter

which explains how the individual presentations relate to one another and to

the themes of the symposium and the conference. The cover letter should

provide the organizer's name, mailing and e-mail addresses, phone number,

and institutional affiliation. In addition, please submit a 100 word summary

of the entire symposium for the conference program.



REGISTRATION. Please send your name and affiliation, mailing and e-mail

addresses, telephone number, and a check made payable to "Georgetown

University" to the address below.



Registration fees:

Student Non-Student

Before September 20: $20.00 $35.00

After September 20: $30.00 $45.00





For further information:



GLS 1996, Department of Linguistics

Box 571051, Georgetown University

Washington, DC 20057-1051

Telephone: (202) 687-6166

E-mail: gls[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu

WWW: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/gu_lx.html