2024 LACUS Annual Conference
Call for Participation
The 50th anniversary conference of
the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
will be held
July 17-19, 2024
at The University of Waterloo and Saint Jerome’s University
Ontario, Canada
and will be hosted by the Department of French Studies
of the University of Waterloo

Invited speakers:

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Olga Vechtomova Professor
Department of Management Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
and Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
“AI and Creativity: Generating lyrical and poetic texts to inspire artists”  
  
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Nicole Nolette
The Canada Research Chair in Minority Studies Associate Professor Department of French Studies, University of Waterloo
“Linguistic Insecurity and Francophone Legitimacy in Toronto”


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Grit Liebscher
Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo
“Language in the Linguistic Landscape”

The conference theme is
Languages without Borders

All presentations will be available to both on-site and remote participants.  All on-site presentations will be streamed via Zoom; all remote (Zoomed) presentations will be available to on-site participants in a meeting room.
Abstracts.  While abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework into aspects of the conference theme are especially welcome, LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas.  The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive or restrictive.
  • Environmental linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Ethnolinguistics
  • Context and meaning
  • International communication
  • Group interactions in different settings
  • Online communication
  • Political discourse
  • Discourse and social distancing
  • Speaking and hearing under stress
  • Personal / media bias
  • Anything else in general / historical linguistics
Abstracts must be submitted on-line.  See the left sidebar for a link.  Proposal submission begins 1 JAN 2024.

The Ruth Brend Fund provides financial support to help defray costs of attending LACUS meetings for members from countries with weak currencies.  The Presidents Prize Fund helps pay for prizes awarded to the best student and post-doctoral papers presented at each annual LACUS conference.

Important Dates.  The following is the planned timeline for LACUS 2024:
  •  1 JAN 2024: Abstract submission opens (on-line)
  •  22 APRIL 2024: Final abstract submission deadline
  • APR 2024: Notification of acceptance / rejection
  • 10 May 2024: Deadline for receipt of confirmation of attendance from presenters
  • 15 May 2024: Deadline for receipt of presenter registration and membership fees
  • 1 June 2024: First release of preliminary program
  • 17-19 July 2024: LACUS Conference
  • 17 July 2024: Board meeting, registration, reception, opening plenary.

Presenters are required to be members of LACUS and to be registered for the conference.
 
Contacts:
For questions about housing, venue, travel, contact any of the following: For questions about registration / membership, contact the LACUS Secretary-Treasurer: For questions about proposal submission, contact the Program Chair / Program Coordinator: If you have problems with the functioning of this web page, contact the LACUS Webmaster: