Oct. 25, 2024 - Oct. 26, 2024
en francais: https://arcg.is/0nXy8b1
Following from UNESCO's sustainable development goals, the theme for APLA 2024, is "Language, Diversity and Inclusion" and serves to check the pulse on how linguistics and language-related fields of study have positioned themselves with respect to these goals. In the spirit of building capacities for community engagement, APLA invites both scholars and stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds to learn from each other and generate partnerships around shared interests.
APLA meetings have traditionally been a platform for discussion focusing on language varieties - those spoken and used in the Atlantic region of Canada - but the conference does not have any boundaries in terms of empirical or theoretical coverage. We invite all linguists, language-related researchers, and community partners in language-related research as well as any interested stakeholders to this open and stimulating event.
We eagerly envision a weekend of sharing experience and research via workshops, presentations, and conversations between scholars, and members of medical, political, educational, Indigenous communities and organizations, as well as other public stakeholders interested in language-based research and/or its roles in achieving global Sustainable Development Goals.
The format of the event - in-person, hybrid, or online - will be dependent on the preferences of those whose abstracts are selected for participation. The schedule will be posted on this webpage when finalized.
For more information please see our conference webpage: https://arcg.is/1Paiym0
Submission instructions:
We are now accepting abstract submissions for papers, panels and/or workshops . This year, our meeting is organized by faculty, staff, students and community members of Memorial University of Newfoundland, in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
We welcome submissions about research on language and/or public engagement initiatives that are theoretical, empirical or applied from multiple disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, communication studies, anthropology, media studies, gender studies, education, queer studies, disability studies, etc.
Topics can deal with any of the following areas of inquiry including, but not limited to: language variation and change, language contact, planning and policy, attitudes and ideologies, discourse analysis, syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, and pedagogy. Community partners engaged in language research or advocacy are also welcome. Submissions by students are especially welcome.
Abstracts may be written in English or French. Presentations should be delivered in the same language as the abstract. Authors may submit a maximum of one abstract as single author and a second as co-author. Presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals for workshops/panels with multiple presenters are limited to a 60-minute time frame that includes a 15 minute question and answer period.
Abstracts should be 250-500 words, titled, single-spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font, must summarize the main points and include sufficient information about the data and methodology involved. A short bibliography can be included.
The deadline for single-paper, workshop or panel submissions is September 1, 2024.
Submissions will be handled via the Linguist List's Easy Abs system. Please include in your submission, your preference for participation: a) in person or b) online.
We plan to publish selected papers from this meeting in a future volume of Linguistica Atlantica. Academic presenters are required to be members of APLA. You may fill out a membership form at the same time you register for the conference online. Details on our website.
To contact a human, email pauldd AT mun DOT ca
Submissions open: June 12, 2024 - Sept. 1, 2024
Abstract review period: Aug. 15, 2024 - Sept. 5, 2024