Language, Communication, and Culture

Congratulations to Lakota for her article in the UAlberta Folio! Lakota and her team's work builds on previous Intercultural Communication Lab research on ethnic stereotypes by examining how labels for Indigenous groups may (or may not) alter stereotypes about Indigenous people. You can read more about her Masters research at
https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2023/12/stereotypes-of-indigenous-people-slower-to-change-than-labels.html
Lakota is now a Masters student in the Counselling program in the Department of Educational Psychology at UAlberta.

Stereotypes of Indigenous people slower to change than labels, study suggests Many non-Indigenous Canadians may have a ways to go in shedding negative stereotypes of Indigenous people, according to a recent study by a U of A master’s student in psychology.

Intersect Virtual Conference 2023 (Canada but Online) Intersect: 2nd Annual Graduate Students Virtual Conference, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, 26-27 October 2023. INTERSECT is the annual virtual conference of the Master …

PhD student openings at Linköping University
Deadline: 13 October 2023
PhD positions (H/T Meaghan Driver)
Please distribute to students

Program start date: 1 February 2024
Linköping University in Sweden is now looking for two PhD students in language and culture. One doctoral position will specialise in language/interaction and the other in literature. You yourself will have the opportunity to formulate a research project which will suited to the research environment in Language and Culture.

The Language Communication and Culture Signature Area of the Faculty of Arts is pleased to send out this call for papers for the 2023 LCC Graduate Conference. No matter where you are in the world, you are welcome to join our virtual conference.

Consider submitting an essay to Language Teaching's Christopher Brumfit Essay Competition. More details below.

CHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT ESSAY PRIZE CHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT ESSAY PRIZE 2020 INFORMATION

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Karen Cerulo (Rutgers University; https://sociology.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/core-department-faculty/core-department-faculty-member/147-cerulo-karen-a) to talk about "Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future". All are welcome!

Interested in the psychology of language learning and teaching? Check out this post-doctoral opportunity in Graz, Austria

Universität Graz - Jobs Die Karl-Franzens-Universität ist die größte und älteste Universität der Steiermark. Seit 1585 prägt sie den Wissenschaftsstandort Graz und baut Brücken nach Südosteuropa.

Please join us at our upcoming exciting talk by Dr. Vern Glaser from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Business! The talk will take place on January 26th at 4pm Mountain Time. It's both online and free, and all are welcome, so please do feel free to share!

Everyone is invited to a virtual talk by Gale Hirsch Stam on Thursday, November 3rd, at 3pm Edmonton time! Please see the below graphic for a summary and a Zoom link.

Over the next few weeks, we will be holding 3 workshops concerning research methods relevant to research involving language, culture and/or communication. Grad students, faculty members and postdocs are all welcome to join us. Registration is FREE, but please be sure to register by April 22nd! https://forms.gle/KZnxGK3qye6H8taQ6

LCC's Dr. Xiaoting Li's research is highlighted today!

Innovator Spotlight: Xiaoting Li Xiaoting Li discusses how people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds can work together to accomplish a common goal using a collective, collaborative approach in a globalized world.

Please join us for this talk by Dr. Nicole Holliday from the University of Pennsylvania, about sociophonetic variation and human interaction with digital voice assistants! It will delve into issues of Black English and linguistic and race-related biases. It will take place at 4pm Mountain Time on March 31st, and all are welcome (whether you affiliated with the University of Alberta or not). The Zoom link is https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/j/98722524716 .

Please join us for an exciting talk by Kevin A. Whitehead and Geoffrey Raymond from the University of California, Santa Barbara! It's at 4pm Mountain Time on January 27th, and all are welcome.

Arts in Tongues project picks up award A project aiming to inspire local Edinburgh communities to connect with languages has won the Collaboration Award at the recent Creative Edinburgh Awards.

Very interesting and potentially useful article for members of this group who are interested in language analysis
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916211004899

From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science - Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts, Johann-Mattis List, Curtis Puryear, Ryan Drabble, Kristen A. Lindquist, 2021 Humans have been using language for millennia but have only just begun to scratch the surface of what natural language can reveal about the mind. Here we propos...

University of Alberta LCC Graduate Student Network presents:
First Annual Graduate Students in Language, Communication and Culture Conference 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Graduate Student Network of the Language, Communication and Culture signature research area at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, is pleased to announce its first annual Graduate Students in Language, Communication and Culture Conference! We invite submissions for academic presentations, posters, or workshops that focus on language, communication, and culture in fields such as (but not limited to):

● Linguistics
● Language Education
● Society and Language
● Psychology of Language
● Business Communication
● Linguistic Anthropology
● Health Communication
● Communication Sciences
● Speech Language Pathology
● Language Related Social Sciences
● Endangered Languages
● Indigenous Languages

The LCC Graduate Student Network welcomes graduate student applicants from all over the world working in these, or related, fields, and on any language(s) and/or culture(s). There is no
cost to register or attend.

In order to keep the conference accessible for graduate students, and to adapt to current pandemic practices, it will be hosted online via Zoom and Gather.Town.

Please direct all submissions here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzViJ-BQBN6atjWeZIK5v8PaelhzBMP2ErZ7E96UKSOXQAmg/viewform

As a Canadian university, we recognize that French and English are our institutional languages, and the importance of Indigenous languages spoken across Canada. Our international graduate student conference welcomes contributions on all languages and/or cultures. The working language of our conference and the language for all contributions is English. Yet, we strongly encourage the participation of speakers of languages other than English. Depending on the number and type of submissions we receive, we may offer the opportunity to present in other languages.

L'Université de l’Alberta étant implantée au Canada, nous reconnaissons le statut officiel du français et de l’anglais ainsi que l’importance de toutes les langues autochtones parlées au
Canada. Notre conférence internationale d’étudiants en cycles supérieurs est ouverte à toutes présentations portant sur des langues / cultures du monde entier. La langue de travail de la
conférence et celle des présentations est l’anglais. Cependant, il est entendu que la participation de locuteurs non natifs de l’anglais est fortement encouragée. En fonction du nombre et type de propositions que nous recevons, nous pourrions organiser des sessions dans d’autres langues.

Academic presentations
● 250-word abstract plus references
● 150-word bio (for program and introduction)
● Optional: Time zone at time of conference
● Presentations will be 15 minutes in length, followed by a 5-minute discussion period.

Poster presentation
● 250-word abstract plus references
● 150-word bio (for program)
● Optional: Time zone at time of conference
● Posters will be displayed on Gather.Town and need to be submitted upon acceptance.

Works in progress may be presented as posters.

Workshops
Workshops are short events led by graduate students who would like to share their relevant (e.g. methodological, technical, pedagogical) expertise with the audience. If you have questions about this format, please contact us.
● 250-word proposal plus references if needed
● 150-word bio which should communicate qualifications to facilitate the proposed workshop
● Optional: Time zone at time of conference
Workshops will be 45 minutes in length.

Abstracts will undergo blind peer-review and acceptance is based on quality of content, originality, relevance, and academic significance.

Important Dates and Deadlines (MDT)
Conference: Wednesday, August 11 & Thursday, August 12, 2021
Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 15, 2021
Notification by: Thursday, June 30, 2021

If you have any questions, feel free to contact [email protected].

The conference will be hosted virtually. The LCC Graduate Student Network operates on Mountain Daylight Time. However, we will try to accommodate different time zones when feasible and if relevant information has been provided.

Language, Communication and Culture Faculty of Arts Signature Area

From Arlene Oaks (Dept of Human Ecology)
On the 28th of April 2021 the Loughborough University's Discourse And Rhetoric Group (DARG) and the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) are delighted to host an online talk by Professor Emerita Anita Pomerantz (Albany), in advance of the publication of her new book "Asking and Telling in Conversation" (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/asking-and-telling-in-conversation-9780190927448).

Abstract: When working on my book, Asking and Telling in Conversation, I reflected on the contributions and weaknesses of the published papers included in the book. In this presentation, I share my current thoughts, assessments, and critiques of the papers included in the book. In addition, I discuss what I would do differently in working up the analyses and in organizing the news and findings presented in the papers.

If you have not done so already, please sign up here to receive the zoom link (we will send it the day before the talk) here: https://forms.gle/U8mNXLtjJAqYGPBT8 - and do feel free to share this link on your mailing lists and social media.

This series of online DARG talks are hosted by Loughborough University's Discourse And Rhetoric Group (DARG) and the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/research-groups/darg/

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A new R package for word embeddings for social scientists by Oscar Kjell, Salvatore Giorgi, and Andy Schwartz is available that LCC members might find useful: http://r-text.org/

text An r-package for analyzing text using NLP and deep learning.

Tremendous presentation today by Dr. Shana Poplack at the University of Ottawa about her research regarding English-French code-mixing, her science communication efforts, and her experience with regards to people's reactions and uptake (or not) of the research findings. A recording of this presentation is available on request from Xiaoting Li at [email protected]

U of A Colleagues!
Rise and shine for an early morning symposium on motivation and language learning from a Self-Determination Theory perspective!

On October 29, 2020, 35 researchers across Faculties at the University participated in the Language, Communication, and Culture (LCC) Lightning Talks Zoom event. Ten researchers from five Faculties—Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of
Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Business, and Faculty of Agricultural, Life, and Environmental Science—presented their research related to Language, Communication, and Culture.

Their research involves a variety of topics, such as language documentation corpora, connecting to the Spirit of indigenous languages, language ideologies, words in the marketplace, etc. During the Q-A session, participants raised questions about the
presentations which created in-depth discussions on topics of common interest, such as the uses of swear words and pronouns in marketplace and social media, and the use of language and gesture in video-recorded communication. A group of researchers interested in gesture and language in interactions involving decision-making were connected during the Q-A session after the presentations. Suggestions for future events organized by LCC signature area were also solicited.

Two interrelated suggestions were also made. First, LCC could raise its public profile by more actively publicizing its research and its relevance to prominent social issues. In addition, LCC could raise the public awareness of the significance and relevance of the research on language, communication, and culture especially in the current social context. Second, LCC could identify a few larger research themes or research questions as a response to the current social issues. A large group of researchers from different fields across campus who are interested in the themes may collaborate to address those questions. A few suggestions proposed at the meeting were: language discrimination, language marginalization, language and identity of socially underprivileged groups. If you are interested in addressing any of the questions, or if you have any suggestions about other possible research themes, please send your interest and thoughts to [email protected]
We would then be able to put researchers with similar and related research interests and questions into contact with each other.

The LCC Graduate Student Network has also been formed. If you are interested in joining the Network, please contact [email protected].

Registration is now open for the 2021 conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics https://www.aaal.org/2021-save-the-date

2021 Save the Date - American Association For Applied Linguistics

The Signature Area on Language, Communication, and Culture is pleased to host a set of three-minute Lightning Talks on October 29th at 1:30-3pm. Please join us!

Are you a graduate student interested in Language, Culture, and Communication? We would like to provide you a (virtual) space where you can exchange ideas in the manner that you will find most useful and pleasant for you. It can take the form of: short presentations of your work, discussions on methodology questions, exchanges on research discoveries and/or difficulties you encounter, exchange of ideas for new individual or collaborative research projects, or anything else you would find useful. Regular meetings would take no more than an hour. We would help you get organized, but the group will decide what is most beneficial.

If you are interested, please reply to [email protected] by October 5, and tell us which weekday after 4.00pm would absolutely NOT work for you. Then, on the basis of your answers, we will send you a Zoom invitation for our first meeting in the week of Oct. 19-23.

The Faculty of Arts Signature Area of Research on Language, Communication, and Culture (LCC) will be hosting an event of a series of lightning talks featuring the work of researchers pertaining to language, communication, and culture on campus. We are currently putting together our program, which will include virtual 3-min lightning talks in one or two afternoons on October 28 and October 29, 2020. For the event, we plan to have presentations from both the Faculty of Arts and other Faculties involved in our signature area.

There are two possible time slots available, 1:30-3:00pm on October 28, and 1:30-3:00pm on October 29, 2020. If you are interested, please respond to this email with a tentative title of your presentation and the time slot(s) that work for you by October 3. We are open to all topics related to LCC, as this is an opportunity to feature your work!

Hi everyone, please join us for a discussion, A VIRtual Exchange of Stimulating Studies (VIRESS), hosted by the Arts Signature Area Research Network, Language, Culture, and Communication (LCC). VIRESS provides an opportunity to discuss research ideas about the role(s) of language, communication, and culture related to the COVID-19 experience from interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational perspectives. Please see the attached poster for more details and RSVP (https://forms.gle/Nw6cnyFLbAnYsERb7) to the event.

Knowledge Mobilization! Xiaoting and Xiaoyun delivered a talk to the K-12 teachers from Edmonton public schools at the Professional Learning Day 2020: Second Languages Matter (https://sites.google.com/epsb.ca/slm2020/home). They showed their new research findings on how teachers use incomplete utterances to manage students' engagement in second language classrooms.

Please join us for the event of Faculty of Arts Celebration of Research!

What: Faculty of Arts Celebration of Research
When: Thursday, March 5 @ 3:30-4:30
Where: Timms Centre for the Arts

This year the celebration will include a performance by the experimental improvisation ensemble XImE, which features students from our Department of Music. There will be presentations and videos designed to feature the exciting work of the Faculty of Arts Signature Areas of Research and Creative Collaboration, and the event will conclude with the announcement of the 2020 Kule Research Cluster Grants.

The University of Alberta's International Week returns next month! Hear inspirational stories from our community members that are changing the world for the better. International Week includes talks from our UAlberta community highlighting work towards achieving the SDGs. International Week is a free event that explores global issues and celebrates cultural diversity. Learn more at uab.ca/iweek.