The CALA 2020 - The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology

The CALA 2 - The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020 February 5 - February 8, 2020, University Putra Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (closes August 23, 2019) http://cala2020.upm.edu.my Location University Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia Conference dates Wednesday February 5, 2020 - Saturday February 8, 2020 Purpose and Structure Over 500 scholars globally will gather to present papers and to engage in progressive discussion on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistics, Anthropology, and related fields. The CALA is a fully Non-Profit Organization. All publishing is free and undergoes a double blind reviewed system. The CALA sources funding/grants to assist people who need funding to access the Conference, yet whose papers excel. All conference proceedings and publications (journal issues/monographs) will be SCOPUS indexed as ranked and cited publications. Keynote Speaker Professor Li Wei - University College London Plenary Speakers - Professor Asmah Haji Omar - University of Malaya - Susan Needham - California State University Dominguez Hills - Professor Hans Henrick Hock - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Professor Nathan Hill - SOAS University London Partners – Taylor and Francis Global Publishers (Official Publishing Partner) – SOAS London – Over 120 major academic institutions globally – Scientific Committee of 120 academics Publications Several Special (Top-Tier/SCOPUS/ISI/ACHI/SSCI) Journal issues and monographs, with high-ranking Publishers only, from papers submitted to the CALA, that meet the requirements of review. Ample assistance is provided to revise papers for publication. Dates Second and final CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for paper and poster proposals - May 23, 2019 - August 23, 2019 Notification of acceptance - No later than September 1, 2019 (for those submitted prior to this) Registration Early bird - March 10, 2019 - June 14, 2019 Normal bird - June 15, 2019 - September 25, 2019 Presenters must register by September 25, 2019, to guarantee a place in the program. Registration will remain open after this, but conference organizers cannot guarantee placement in the conference. Late bird - September 26, 2019 - February 8, 2020 (Conference end) Abstract submissions The Call for Abstracts link: http://cala2020.upm.edu.my, which contains all information Anthropological Excursion (on final day) Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia Theme Asian Text, Global Context The CALA 2020 theme, "Asian Text, Global Context", describes a culmination of 300 years of East-West global communication. Throughouty, the symbolisms of Asian 'text' have been significantly emphasized, contested, (re)interpreted, and distorted, while employed for both political and Anthropological purpose. Asian text has become a highly representational, and legitimizing device, and its potency cannot be underestimated. Never has it shown more significance than in the current era, where its intensified usage, and its qualities in Asian identities, seek description. The Asian text pervades the whole semiotic spectrum of that which is performatively Asian, and distinct from the Non-Asian, yet a text which can interlink the East and the West, through a multitude of textual modes. The continuous recentralization and recontextualization of Asian texts, both locally and globally, are hence vital to representations of Asia, Linguistically, Anthropologically, Socioculturally, Politically, and beyond. The CALA 2020 thus calls for renewed interpretations of Asian texts, in their global contexts. These interpretations increase in significance as; return migration to Asia is now a salient factor in transnational flows; online texts and their textual modes now compete ever more enthusiastically to effect disjunctures in previously Western dominated technologies; perspectives of life and social interaction now increasingly draw from Asia, producing spaces for revised semiotics; the intersubjectivities of political, sociocultural, and religious practices motivate dialogue, thus shifting ethnic demarcations, and sociopolitical interventions. Ultimately, Eastern demographics, and their social dynamics, continue to uniquely inform and complexify Asian texts, in both local and in global contexts. Strands Abstract and poster proposals should address the key strands related to Asian countries and regions: – Anthropological Linguistics – Applied Sociolinguistics – Buddhist studies and discourses – Cognitive Anthropology and Language – Critical Linguistic Anthropology – Ethnographical Language Work – Ethnography of Communication – General Sociolinguistics – Language, Community, Ethnicity – Language Contact and Change – Language, Dialect, Sociolect, Genre – Language Documentation – Language, Gender, Sexuality – Language Ideologies – Language Minorities and Majorities – Language Revitalization – Language in Real and Virtual Spaces – Language Socialization – Language and Spatiotemporal Frames – Multifunctionality – Narrative and Metanarrative – Nonverbal Semiotics – Poetics and Parallelism – Post-Structuralism and Language – Religious Discourse – Semiotics and Semiology – Social Psychology of Language – Text, Context, Entextualization Presentation lengths – Colloquia – 1.5 hours with 3-5 contributors (Parts A and B are possible, thus 6-10 contributors) – General paper sessions – Approx. 20-25 minutes each, including 5 mins for questions/responses – Posters – to be displayed at designated times throughout the CALA 2020 Submission Guidelines (via the online submission website, or by email (see below)) Evaluation of proposals – All abstracts for general sessions will be double blind reviewed. – Parent abstracts for colloquia will be double blind reviewed. All abstracts for individual presentations within each colloquia will not be peer reviewed, but are expected to be at a standard commensurate to the colloquium parent abstract. Review criteria are as follows: – Appropriateness and significance to CALA themes – Originality/significance/impact of the research – Clarity/coherence of research concerns – Theoretical and analytical framework(s) – Description of research, data collection, findings/conclusions, rhetoric, and exegesis as a whole – For colloquia, importance/significance of the overarching topic and/or framework(s) addressed, and its coherence of and with individual presentations. For more information, please contact: Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hazlina Abdul Halim Head, Dept. of Foreign Languages Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication Universiti Putra Malaysia Head of Communications Ms. Nhan Huynh cala2020@upm.edu.my http://cala2020.upm.edu.my