Welcome to the 37th of the New Ways
of Analyzing Variation conference. NWAV 37 will be held on November 6 -
9 2008 at the elegant Hotel
ZaZa, which is located in the heart of the Museum District in
Houston, Texas. NWAV is being hosted by Rice University, and
co-hosted by University of Texas-San Antonio.
Our
theme will be "...Communities...",
and we are drawing on number of different types of communities for this
conference. First, we are working with several
renowned sociologists at Rice University, and will include workshops,
plenaries, and panels that have been jointly created by our planning
committee and the sociologists. Second, we have engaged input and
support from several nationally known civic leaders from Houston, and
again, we have created plenaries and panels to reflect this engagement.
Finally, we would like to encourage submissions that highlight not only
academic and civic communities, but that highlight new ways of defining
the communities sociolinguists use in their analysis of variation.
Plenary
speakers for NWAV 37 include:
Nik Coupland
Carmen Fought
Howard
Giles
Sonja Lanehart
Miriam Meyerhoff
Dennis Preston
Gillian Sankoff
We
will be updating our website as necessary, and hope you
will check back often. We are excited to be hosting NWAV 37, and
excited to be given the opportunity to show you all that Houston --
fourth-largest city in the US -- has to offer.