Call for Papers
NWAV 34: Lects and the City will be held at New York University from October 20-23 2005. This year's theme highlights the linguistic and social issues that arise in multicultural urban centers. Both a Thursday night plenary address and a special Saturday night panel session will bring together scholars from linguistics, anthropology, sociology and education to discuss ways of approaching, conceiving of and researching urban areas, as well as the broader implications of urban research.
Papers and Posters
In addition to the panels and workshops with this focus, we invite submissions for 20-minute papers in all areas of sociolinguistics. Following the lead of previous NWAVs, we also encourage submissions for posters. 500-word abstracts are due on Wednesday June 1 2005. Abstracts may be submitted electronically at our website (the preferred method), or via email to nwav34@nyu.edu. Online abstract submission forms will be available on our website (www.nwav34.com) beginning April 2005. Authors may submit an abstract for one singly-authored paper/poster and one jointly-authored paper/poster, or two jointly-authored papers/posters. Abstracts containing specialized fonts, characters or graphics must be submitted in .pdf format. Abstracts for papers and posters will be anonymously reviewed.
Panels
We will also be accepting proposals for a limited number of panel sessions. Panel organizers must submit 500-word abstracts of the panel, which include the participants’ names, affiliations and contact information, via the online submission form. In addition, panel organizers should submit individual 500-word abstracts for each of the panel participants. Panel sessions will be 100 minutes in length, and panel organizers may divide that time between speakers/discussants as they wish. Participants on panels may also submit an additional abstract for individual presentation, but must agree to withdraw their singly-authored paper/poster if their panel is accepted. Abstracts for panels will not be reviewed anonymously.
Notification of acceptance of papers, posters and panels will be emailed by July 1 2005.
Please note that sign language interpreting will be available for conference participants, as needed. Those requiring interpreting must pre-register for the conference, as well as indicate what sessions/talks they plan to attend, in order to make appropriate arrangements. For further information on this or any other aspects of the conference, please see updates on our website at www.nwav34.com or contact:
Renée Blake
nwav34@nyu.edu
NYU Linguistics
719 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York NY 10003
United States
