This year’s sociolinguistics session at PLM, in keeping with the main conference theme, will look for theoretical approaches bridging sociolinguistics and other areas of research. This necessarily involves a commitment to the interdisciplinarity which may lead to creating a new quality rather than just combining theories or entering new research contexts. The organizers would like to encourage the presentation of new theoretical approaches and new contexts of research in the hope that the result will work against essentialism and ethnocentrism in sociolinguistic study.
We suggest that the following topics be addressed:
COGNITIVE SOCIOLINGUISTICS
IDEOLOGIES OF LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
BRIDGING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
BRIDGING SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
COMMUNICATION ACROSS SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXTS
NEW DISCOURSES: LINGUAGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
We will gladly consider other topics related to interdisciplinarity and sociolinguistics.
Organisers:
Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Karol Janicki (University of Bergen)
Joanna Pawelczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Abstracts:
Abstracts of about 500 words should be submitted as .txt files or .pdf files.
Please send the abstract as an attachment to the following email address:
kagniesz@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Include your name, affiliation, email address, and the title of the abstract
in the text of the email. Deadline for submission is February 15, 2005.
Participants will be notified about acceptance by March 1, 2005.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by a 10-minute
discussion period.
The language of the conference is English.
Contact:
For any questions concerning the section please contact the organizers at kagniesz@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Information on the general programme of the 36th Poznań Linguistic Meeting as
well as registration and accommodation can be found on the homepage of the conference
(http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/plm).