March 7, 2025 - March 8, 2025
https://publish.illinois.edu/sociolinguisticssymposium/
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) which will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. This milestone symposium, with the theme Expanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond Boundaries, invites us to critically explore and transcend the limits of conventional frameworks, redefining what it means to study language in its dynamic, boundary-crossing forms.
We invite abstracts that engage with the theme by interrogating, dismantling, or reimagining boundaries in sociolinguistic research.
SOSY is held in conjunction with the 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17), a an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students a friendly venue in which they can present and discuss research on any topic related to language and linguistics.
Please submit your ILLS abstracts to our SEPARATE (ILLS) EasyAbs page: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ILLS-17/
**Please note, you are welcome to submit abstracts to both SOSY and ILLS, however the same abstract will not be accepted for both events.**
Submission instructions:
To submit an abstract, please visit: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SOSY6/
Submissions are limited to one single-author abstract and one multi-author abstract, OR two multi-author abstracts. First and presenting authors must be students.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words, with one extra page allowed for images, data, and/or references. Full references are not necessary; please use the (Author, Year) format. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs in PDF format with NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION of the presenter in the document.
Submissions will close on January 10th, 2025.
Authors will be notified of abstract decisions in late January 2025.
For more details, please visit our website (http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/) or contact us at [email protected]
Submissions open: Dec. 10, 2024 - Jan. 10, 2025
Abstract review period: Jan. 11, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2025