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Written by Bruce

Saturday, 10 October 2009 11:13

1st Annual Symposium on Communicative Practices in the Lifeworld (CPIL)

April 9-10, 2010
University of California, Berkeley

Plenary Speakers

Kathryn Woolard
University of California, San Diego

John Du Bois
University of California, Santa Barbara

Kira Hall
University of Colorado, Boulder

William F. Hanks
University of California, Berkeley

Charles L. Briggs
University of California, Berkeley

Conference Description and Invited Disciplines

CPIL provides an interdisciplinary venue for scholars who investigate the role of communicative practices in social life. The conference aims to bring together scholars who are interested in broad range of phenomena relevant to language, interaction, and socio-cultural processes. We seek to maximize these cross-disciplinary exchanges for rethinking previous and expanding new perspectives for conceptualizing and methodologically investigating the complex relationships between communication and social life.

Invited Disciplines and Approaches
Approaches can include, but are not limited to: Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Education, Educational Sociolinguistics, Ethnomethodology, Folklore, Interactional Linguistics, Language and Media Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Performance Studies, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociocultural Linguistics.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts for presentations and data roundtables are welcome from faculty and graduate students.

Paper presentation
Paper presentations should be designed for 20 minutes, leaving 10 minutes for discussion. All paper abstracts should be 500 words and clearly express the following information: a title that reflects the content of the paper; statement of the research problem and/or argument of the paper; appropriate but concise reference to previous research on the area; the methods employed in the study; a brief summary of the findings; and the implications of the research for future studies.

Data roundtables
Data roundtables are one hour, and the presenter is in charge of providing context and transcript copies for the workshop attendees. All data session abstracts should be 500 words and include the following information: a title that reflects the content of the phenomenon to be investigated; a description of the context of the data (including when and how it was collected); the original research question that guided data collection; the format of the data; and some insights you seek to gain from sharing your data in this collective environment.

For both abstract types, please remove any personal identifiers to ensure your anonymity in the double-blind peer review process.

All abstracts should be submitted using the official abstract submission form (see the link below) by December 10, 2009 in MS-Word or PDF format. All abstracts should be mailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you have any questions, you are also welcomed to email the conference organizers at this email address.

CPIL Abstract Submission Form

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