Vox California: Cultural Meanings of Linguistic Diversity
April 3-4, 2009
University of California, Santa Barbara
Conference website Abstract submission website
"Vox California" is an interdisciplinary workshop that seeks both to highlight language as a central component of California studies and to establish California as a crucial site for the investigation of language in social life. As the first conference to focus on the full scope of California's linguistic resources, including but not limited to indigenous and immigrant languages, regional and ethnoracial dialects, subcultural linguistic styles, and linguistically mediated social activities, "Vox California" has a broad interdisciplinary mandate to examine how language semiotically shapes the sociocultural meaning of California and Californians locally, nationally, and globally. The workshop's goal is not simply to document the state's linguistic diversity but more importantly to investigate the cultural meanings of specific linguistic forms, representations, and practices, including social identities, political ideologies, and embodied cultural activities.
Speakers:
- Jocelyn Ahlers (Liberal Studies, CSU-San Marcos)
- H. Samy Alim (Anthropology, UCLA)
- Arnetha Ball (Education, Stanford University)
- Penelope Eckert (Linguistics, Stanford University)
- Carmen Fought (Linguistics, Pitzer College)
- Lanita Jacobs-Huey (Anthropology, University of Southern California)
- Paul Kroskrity (Anthropology, UCLA)
- Adrienne Lo (Communication, University of Illinois)
- Norma Mendoza-Denton (Anthropology, University of Arizona)
- Marianne Mithun (Linguistics, UCSB)
- Robert Podesva (Linguistics, Georgetown University)
- Jason Raley (Education, UCSB)
- Otto Santa Ana (Chicano and Chicana Studies, UCLA)
- Ana Celia Zentella (Ethnic Studies, UCSD)
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are invited to submit 500-word abstracts for the poster session of the conference. Students and postdocs at any university or college in California are eligible to submit, but priority will be given to those from UC campuses. See the workshop website for abstract and poster guidelines.
Registration is free, but advanced registration is required. The number of participants is limited, so early registration is strongly recommended.
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2009
Stipends may be available to offset the costs of travel and/or poster production, depending on funding. Information about stipends will be announced later.
Contact: voxcalifornia@gmail.com
Organizing committee:
- H. Samy Alim (Anthropology, UCLA)
- Patricia Baquedano-López (Education, UC Berkeley)
- Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics, UCSB)
- Dolores Inés Casillas (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB)
Conference assistant: Christy Bird (Linguistics, UCSB)
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