[Air-L] CFP: BAAL/CUP seminar - Language and Social Media

[Page, Ruth E. (Dr.)]

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LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL MEDIA: NEW CHALLENGES FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING LINGUISTICS



Date                            26-27 April 2012



Place                           University of Leicester



Co-ordinator             Dr Ruth Page



Keynote speakers     Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg)

Caroline Tagg (University of Birmingham)

Ashraf Abdullah (University of Leeds)



Call for Papers



We invite submissions in all areas of language and social media including:

•         Language and social network sites

•         Language, mobile technologies, space and place

•         Identity and interaction

•         Performativity, authenticity, authority and fiction

•         Gaming, transmedial narrative and intertextuality

•         Teaching linguistics using social media



We welcome a range of approaches including:

•         Anthropological Linguistics

•         Critical Discourse Analysis

•         Conversation or Discourse Analysis

•         Multimodality

•         Corpus Linguistics

•         Systemic Functional Linguistics



Possible themes include:

•         Challenges that social media pose for the research methods used in applied linguistics

•         The value of terms like ‘text’, ‘context’, ‘community’ and ‘interaction’ for the analysis of social media



Papers and Posters



30 minute papers (20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes discussion) or poster presentations should address one or more of the seminar topics listed above.



Format for Proposals



Proposals should be submitted as a Word or Pdf file to Dr Ruth Page (rep22 at le.ac.uk), containing the following information:



•         Title of proposal in bold

•         Indicate whether the proposal is for a paper or a poster presentation

•         Name of presenter

•         Name and address of institution, telephone and email

•         Text 300 words maximum

•         12 pt font, Left-aligned, single-spaced





Proposals will be reviewed by the seminar co-ordinator and a panel of reviewers.



Seminar Deadlines



24 February 2012 Receipt of Proposals

9 March 2012 Notification of Proposal acceptances

12 April 2012 Payment of fees



For more details please see: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/language-and-social-media



Dr Ruth Page
Room 1509, Attenborough Tower
School of English
University of Leicester
Leicester
LE1 7RH
UK
+44 (0)116 223 1286