The 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium will be hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany (August 22-24, 2012). The general theme of the 2012 conference will be ‘Language and the city’.

You can find information about the conference, including the first call (for thematic sessions) on the conference website: http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/ We are looking forward to your submissions. If you have any further comments or suggestions for the organisation of next years Sociolinguistics Symposium, please feel free to send us an e-mail.

Font: M. Strubell, via Sociolinguistics Symposium sociolinguistics-symposium@fu-berlin.de www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de