CALL FOR PAPERS

16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
May 6-8, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles

Presented by:

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA)
at the University of California, Los Angeles

and

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association (LISO-GSA)
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers

Charles Briggs
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Kramsch
German, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Kroskrity
Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Tanya Stivers
Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute, Amsterdam

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and
culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse
analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, interactional
sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language socialization.
Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students and
faculty. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of naturalistic
interaction are encouraged. Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10
minutes for discussion. A subset of papers presented at the conference will be
published in the conference proceedings, Crossroads of Language, Interaction,
and Culture, Volume 8, 2010.

Abstracts are due no later than January 15, 2010, by electronic submission only. The
submission guidelines are provided below and on the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/abstractsubmit.htm).

Please provide the following information:
- Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for notification
- The title of the paper
- Any equipment requirements
- An abstract no longer than 500 words
- Any additional comments

Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper. Briefly
discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous research
and the work’s relevance to developments in the field. You may include a short
example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be stated,
however tentative.

Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed by
scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology,
applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters will be
accepted based on reviewers’ evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is January 15, 2010.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or nonacceptance
will be sent via e-mail in March 2010.
Conference registration is free at the CLIC-GSA website:

The last in our series of introductions to Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis features Fabienne Chevalier from the University of York St John talking about Conversation Analysis from the perspective of linguistics. Unfortunately due to some technical problems this post is shorter than intended.

I’ll be following up these videos with a series on coming into the field of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis featuring PHD students and new scholars in the field, and perhaps a few stray videos here and there.

Next in the series of IPRA diaries introducing the basic ideas of Ethnomethodology we have Jack Bilmes from the University of Hawaii talking to me at IPRA 2009.

These are featured and hosted through AIEMCA’s youtube channel. You are encouraged to use these videos on your own websites through the channel, but please ensure you give credit and a link to http://aiemca.net/

The members page has been updated the inactive members have been removed and some new faces have been added. If you have been taken off in error, or you are new Australasian academic or research student please let us know at aiemca@aiemca.net and we can add your name to the list. There is no cost to join and all we need is your website address (academic preferably, but a simple bio website will do). Research students are encouraged to join.

Some upcoming conferences, the International Sociology Association World Congress, July 11-17, 2010 in Gothenburg Sweden and the International Communication Association Conference in Singapore June 22-26, 2010 in Singapore. Both are expected to include significant EM/CA contributions, submissions for each close soon so check the websites and book your flights!

Thanks to an influx of spam registrations on our modest forum I’ve installed another spam filter. Hopefully a more reliable one. So don’t be surprised if you’re asked questions if you try to login to the forum, they shouldn’t be that challenging (I hope). Also as part of this process I pruned all the fake registrations, however if someone has registered using non-institutional email (such as their gmail) and given an obscure username they *may* have been deleted. If this has happened to you email aiemca@aiemca.net and I’ll fix it up.

Also keep a lookout for the next installment in the IPRA diaries coming soon featuring Jack Bilmes to a youtube near you!

The second in our series of web diaries on Ethnmethodology/Conversation Analysis features Michael Emmison from the University of Queensland talking to me at IPRA about Ethnomethodology. It is intended as a basic introduction to the ideas of Ethnomethology in a condensed form.

These are featured and hosted through AIEMCA’s youtube channel. You are encouraged to use these videos on your own websites through the channel, but please ensure you give credit and a link to http://aiemca.net/

The first in our series of web diaries on Ethnmethodology/Conversation Analysis features Ann Weatherall from the University of Wellington talking to me at IPRA about conversation analysis. It is intended as a basic introduction to the ideas of conversation analysis in a condensed form.

These are featured and hosted through AIEMCA’s youtube channel. You are encouraged to use these videos on your own websites through the channel, but please ensure you give credit and a link to http://aiemca.net/

To increase the visibility of Australian CA and Ethnomethodology AIEMCA.net is planning to produce publication summaries of EM/CA publications from Australasian scholars (yup that means NZ too). If you have published something in EM/CA let us know at aiemca@aiemca.net. Articles, books, book chapters etc that have been published will be posted in quarterly publication summaries.

Also across the next month or so the membership listing for AIEMCA.net will be refreshed. To keep the list up to date if you are a part of the Australasian EM/CA community (as a scholar, research student or publishing non-scholar) let us know. Founding members will be retained in a separate listing.

To be listed as an AIEMCA member please email aiemca@aiemca.net with your name and institution (where relevant) and a link to your academic webpage (if any). Please let us know prior to 18 September 2008 after which the new listing will become live. Applications after this date will be accepted, but listing will be delayed.

The Multimodal Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology is holding a Plenary and Workshop day titled “Technologies and Multimodal Discourse” on Friday 23. October. The plenaries and workshops will be given by Theo van Leeuwen of the University of Technology, Sydney and Rodney Jones of the City University, Hong Kong. We thought that the workshops may be of interest to either yourself or to colleagues and have attached a pdf information flyer. I would be most grateful if you could please circulate this to relevant people.

If you’d like any further details, please contact Dr. Sigrid Norris, phone: +64 (0)9 921 9999 x 6262, email: sigrid.norris@aut.ac.nz. Or alternatively, the website: www.multimodalresearch.org. Also check out the conference flyer for more information.

The Discourse Analysis Group (DAG) is an academic interest group and has met fortnightly since 1997. At meetings we analyse data, discuss contemporary issues facing the field Conversation Analysis (CA), and provide collegial support to one another. The Group has been a vital part in the development of ANU graduate students working within CA. More recently, the group has expanded to include graduate students working within other discourse analytic frameworks. Current members include researchers and graduate students from the Australian National University, University of Canberra, and from Charles Stuart University.

The DAG has an email list, currently run by Sarah McLaughlin, which notifies members and interested parties of the DAG events. Email Sarah to be added to the DAG list to keep up to date on CA events in Canberra and in Australia.

The group started one Friday lunch time in the linguistics tea room in 1997. The idea of having regular meetings arose following a discussion between two PhD students (Belinda Collins and Johanna Rendle-Short) and their supervisor, Tony Liddicoat. They wanted a forum for discussing conversation analysis ideas, looking at data, and reading articles. Initially it was called the DA group, because the course then taught by Tony Liddicoat was called Discourse Analysis, even though the content of the course was Conversation Analysis (CA). It was only later that someone realised we were the DAGs. This is the term that has stuck over the years.

Some of the early members of the group were Nikki Bramley, Belinda Collins, Tony Liddicoat, Pieta Littleton, Marian May, Maurice Nevile, Johanna Rendle-Short. We would meet at 12.30 pm every second Friday.