Call for Papers - The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020

BINTULU, Malaysia - Feb. 14, 2019 - PRLog -- The CALA 2020 - The (Annual) Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020
Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia,
Conference dates: February 5 - 8, 2020
http://cala2020.upm.edu.my

Information
Following the success of the CALA 2019, The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019, in Cambodia, we announce The CALA 2020, February 5-8, 2020, at The University Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.
The CALA seeks to redefine scholarship on Asian Language and Society.

Purpose and Structure
The CALA 2020 invites Linguists, Anthropologists, Linguistic and Cultural Anthropologists, Culturologists, Sociologists, Political Scientists, Ethnologists, and those in related fields pertinent to Asia, to discuss work, and engage in scholarly collaborations, thus forming global networks.

Location
University Putra Malaysia
Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia

Partners
· Taylor and Francis Global Publishers (Official Partner)
· 60 major academic institutions globally
· Scientific Committee of over 100 academics

Publications
Journal Special Issues, and Monographs, from papers submitted that meet publication requirements. Papers selected will be published with Top-Tier journals. Here, ample assistance will be provided to revise manuscripts.

Dates
Abstract and poster proposal submission - November 17, 2018 - May 9, 2019
Notification of acceptance - No later than May 10 2018 (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)

Conference dates
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - Saturday, February 8, 2020
Final day comprises optional Anthropological excursion

Abstract submissions
The Call for Abstracts is now open, at http://cala2020.upm.edu.my, which contains all information

Anthropological Excursion
Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia

Theme
Asian Text, Global Context
The CALA 2020, February 5-8, 2020, Malaysia, will expand on work on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, as well as Asian Language and Society. Here, the global Linguistic Anthropologists will gather to discuss work on Linguistics, Anthropology, and Language and Society, in and of Asia, and beyond.

With an increased focus on the significance of Asian Language and society, the Annual CALA Conference has emerged at an appropriate time, opportuning academics from the West to tap into, and work with, Academia in the East. Scholars in institutions throughout Asia increasingly affiliate with the CALA network, as do those in Western contexts, to explore the vast possibilities of the Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, academically, and socioculturally, where the CALA network has now well contributed and has significantly boosted research, publications, and academic networks, globally.

Themed Asian Text, Global Context, The CALA 2020 will represent over 400 years of East-West global interaction, communication, and transnationalism. Throughout, symbolisms of Asian 'texts' have been significantly emphasized, (re)interpreted, contested, and distorted, while employed for cultural and political purpose. Asian texts have become highly representational, authenticating and legitimizing sociopolitical and cultural devices, where their potency should not be undervalued. Never have these texts shown more significance than in the present, as their intensified use, and their qualities in Asian identities long contested, seek this Linguistic Anthropological exploration.

The Asian text has thus regenerated itself as a semiotic, in that, as a verbal, non-verbal, and visual artifact, it encompasses the whole semiotic spectrum of that which is performatively Asian, and that which is distinct from the Non-Asian, yet a text which can interlink the East and the West, through a multitude of textual modes. The continuous recentralizations and recontextualizations of Asian texts, both locally and globally, have hence become vital to representations of Asia, Linguistically, Anthropologically, Socioculturally, Politically, and much more.

The CALA 2020 thus calls for renewed interpretations of Asian texts, and asks that we seek new perspectives of these complex texts, in 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; ontological conceptions of life and social interaction now increasingly draw from Asian philosophies, sociocultural models, lifeworlds, and Asian urban anthropologies, thus producing interstices for new or revised textual and textualized semiotics; the entangled complexities and intersubjectivities of political, sociocultural, and religious practices and their constraints, motivate engagements in interfaith dialogue, shifting ethnic demarcations, and sociopolitical interventions. Ultimately, the massive sets of Eastern demographics, and their expansive sets of social dynamics, models, and praxes, continue to uniquely inform and (re)complexify productions of Asian texts, in both local and in global contexts.

Strands
Abstract and poster proposals should address one or more of 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
· Islamic Studies and discourses
· 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
· Post-Structuralism and Language
· Semiotics and Semiology
· Social Psychology of Language
· Textualization, Contextualization, 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)
General session papers
· 18-word maximum presentation title
· 400-word maximum abstract, including references
Colloquia
· Submission of only the main abstract for colloquium required
· Abstract must contain the colloquium main description, and a summary of each individual paper within the colloquium

Evaluation of proposals
All abstracts will be double blind reviewed.

For more information, please contact:
Ms. Nhan Huynh
cala2020@upm.edu.my

http://cala2020.upm.edu.my