text_combined: sociolinguistics symposium 12 update sociolinguistics symposium 12 institute education university london 20 bedford way london wc1 thursday 26th march midday saturday 28th march midday 1998 summary programme plenaries colloquia papers parallel sessions short work progress reports poster presentations publishers displays social events british sign language interpretation available ss12 participants request advance academic organising committee professor jenny cheshire queen mary westfield college university london professor jennifer coates roehampton institute london dr penelope gardner chloros birkbeck college university london dr ben rampton celia roberts thames valley university euan reid institute education university london professor brian street king college university london plenaries following speakers accepted invitations give plenary presentations titles cases provisional colloquia listed professor jan blommaert university antwerp international pragmatics association reconstructing sociolinguistic image africa grassroots writing shaba congo professor debbie cameron university strathclyde glasgow good talk discourse practice communication skills professor penny eckert stanford university variation style identity professor susan gal university chicago language ideologies linguistic boundaries semiotics differentiation colloquia include following maintaining indigenous languages special reference latin america state planning vs grass roots initiatives jane freeland portsmouth rosaleen howard malverde liverpool contact jane freeland port ac uk speech representation institutional discourse stef slembrouck gent mike baynham sydney contact stef slembrouck rug ac sociolinguistics computer mediated communication simeon yates open university contact j yates open ac uk oral narratives across contexts cultures shoshana blum kulka hebrew university jerusalem alexandra georgakopolou king college london contacts mskcusb pluto mscc huji ac il alexandra georgakopoulou kcl ac uk organisers also discussing ideas colloquia gerontolinguistics sociolinguistics sign languages language multimodality academic literacies language sexuality code mixing code switching cases encouraging maximum interactivity openness unsolicited contributions contact ben rampton tvu ac uk details programme intend complete programmeplanning far mid november 1997 let speakers details time full programme sent post registered participants along local travel details january 1998 text posting also available printed form conference office see website set next days updated regularly programme participant details http www ioe ac uk ccs ss12 call papers academic organising committee invites offers papers area sociolinguistics intention ss12 accept rather fewer papers recent meetings series offers indicate clearly regular 35 minute slots papers presenters encouraged speak c20 minutes leaving c15 minutes questions discussion shorter 15 minute slots reports work progress 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