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Sociolinguistics Symposium 19

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Mer, 08/22/2012 - Ven, 08/24/2012
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In 2012, the 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium will be hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. The general theme of the 2012 conference will be Language and the city.

Conference date
August 22 - 24, 2012

Plenary speakers (confirmed)
- Peter Auer (FRIAS, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)
- Penelope Eckert (Linguistics, Stanford University)
- Maria Eugênia Lamoglia Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
- Xu Daming (China Center for Linguistic and Strategic Studies, Nanjing University)

There will also be a plenary session about interdisciplinary aspects of the main theme for which we will invite specialists from relevant fields outside of linguistics.

Calls and deadlines
The first Call has been published in June 2011. It concerns the submission of thematic sessions (deadline: September 15, 2011). The Call for individual presentations (papers and posters) will be published in October 2011.

Local Organizers
Matthias Hüning, Uli Reich and Norbert Dittmar