Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2011

March 10-13, 2011 Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Call for Papers: The Submission deadline is NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We invite submissions in all areas relevant to language and new media, including:

• The language of facebook, twitter, and other social media
• The language of texting, hypertext, and other new technologies
• Identity, Indexicality, and Intertextuality
• Language and gender, performance, and narrative

Possible themes may include

• How the medium shapes language and social interaction
• How language and social interaction affect media
• Intergenerational/intercultural communication
• Language in medical, educational, legal, workplace, and other contexts

We welcome a range of approaches, including:

• Anthropological linguistics
• Conversation or discourse analysis
• Interactional sociolinguistics
• Multimodality
• Variation analysis
• Visual analysis

Font: GURT 2011 – Call for Papers.