Theme

Symbol and Society
The GLOCAL CALA 2022 theme “Symbol and Society” describes the need for symbolic representation in a rapidly changing Asia. As has been the case throughout a larger global society, Asian societies have sought increasingly rapid change, seeking none less than online spaces to contextualize and to legitimize the effects of this rapid change. Here, recent events have patently mediated the shift to online interaction, a shift which has thus intensified the development, and possibly, the invention, of a range of new symbolisms and symbolic clusters that now have a limited use in offline spaces.
 
Throughout the past decade, and more particularly over the past one year, global changes have elicited these new symbolisms of communication, symbolisms which have quickly been exposed to contestation and (re)interpretation, owing to the need to deploy online technologies on such a large scale, and which are now presenting themselves as highly beneficial to anthropological study. Asian language symbolisms have always exposed their potency as representational of their communities and as legitimizing of the worth of these communities in a global society, but never have they shown more significance than in the current era, where their intensified usage online, and their qualities for legitimizing Asian identities, seek investigation
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The Asian symbolism pervades the whole semiotic spectrum of that which is performatively Asian, and which is distinct from the Non-Asian, yet a symbolism which can interlink the colonized with the decolonized, through a multitude of human ideologies. This again becomes more the case now as the boundaries of Asian symbolisms have become blurred through online textual modes, Linguistically and Anthropologically, and beyond.
 
The GLOCAL CALA 2022 thus calls for renewed awareness and interpretations of Asian symbolisms in this new era, and asks that we seek new perspectives of these Asian complex symbolisms, in their global contexts. These interpretations increase in significance as the use of online virtual world texts and textual modes have now assumed an authoritative stance over the real world, possibly creating new realities and new real worlds that subvert our ideologies of those old real worlds. This shift to symbolisms required to reconceptualize new virtual and old real worlds in this current era, will surely motivate dialogue.

Chair’s Welcome

The GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022/2023, the fourth GLOCAL CALA (4), at the University of the Philippines Diliman, symbolizes a significant leap forward for Asian Linguistic Anthropology, and hence, for Linguistic Cultural Anthropology in general, from the previous highly successful GLOCAL CALA 2019, GLOCAL CALA 2020, and the GLOCAL CALA 2021, to further problematize current perspectives and praxis in the fields of Asian Languages, Linguistics, and Society.
The GLOCAL CALA 2022/2023, as with the GLOCAL CALA 2019, the GLOCAL CALA 2020, and the GLOCAL CALA 2021, responds to concerns by scholars in Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Cultural studies, and Linguistic Anthropology in general, pertinent to Asian contexts. Previous GLOCAL CALA conferences significantly reduced the gap between a focus on Asian regions and work by Asian academics, a gap largely contributable to issues of funding, expertise, and academic ranking. The GLOCAL CALA 2022/3023 will extend on these efforts to reduce the gap, as it aims to further extend the global networks of Asian Linguistic Anthropology, connecting Asian and other Universities and their academics. All papers in the proceedings will be SCOPUS / ISI indexed, and channeled to high impact journal publication special issues and monographs.
The GLOCAL CALA 2022/2023 will, to a greater degree than before, opportune academics to exchange knowledge, expertise, and valuable Linguistic and Anthropological data across the world, through the interpersonal and inter-institutional networks built by the GLOCAL CALA conferences. To ground these efforts, the GLOCAL CALA 2022/2023, at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and with major University Partners SOAS, University of London, Stanford University, the University of Hawai’i, University of Illinois, and 3,000 others, and with major global academic publishing partners, will network a growing number of institutions globally, to support this crucial fully global project.
The theme for the GLOCAL CALA 2022/2023 is Symbol and Society, as a two part conference, an online/virtual conference in November 2022, and offline/in-person in 2023. This theme is pertinent to the current state of Asian regions and countries vis-a-vis their global analogues. The University of the Philippines Diliman, hosting the GLOCAL CALA in 2022/2023 in Diliman, in the Philippines, constitutes one of an interchanging series of annual hosts, and in this way, the GLOCAL CALA global network expands to involve institutions worldwide.
We thus welcome you to the GLOCAL CALA 2022/2023, the fourth annual Conference with focus on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, and to the GLOCAL CALA as a whole.

Professor Jem Javier

Chair
The GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology
The GLOCAL CALA 2022/2023

Head Department of Linguistics
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of The Philippines Diliman

Speakers

Jack Sidnell

Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto, Canada

Jack Sidnell has conducted field research in the Caribbean, Vietnam, India and North America. The structures of social interaction have been the object of long term study. Other research has focused on the anthropology of knowledge and the ontology of action. His current research examines interlocutor reference (i.e. reference to speaker and hearer) in Vietnamese across a range of contexts including those involving the socialization of young children and those involving forms of public address (e.g. television and radio). This research poses a set of broad theoretical questions concerning the linguistic mediation of social relations and the consequences of linguistic diversity for social life.

Citations and Publications

Citations
All proceedings will be channeled through SCOPUS citation indexing. Here, papers submitted to the GLOCAL CALA 2022 proceedings will be channeled for SCOPUS ranking and citation.
Publications
All papers submitted to The GLOCAL CALA 2022 will be considered for review for publication in Top Tier journals and monographs.

Location

https://cala2021.upd.edu.ph/vc-2022

Chronology

Post call for papers
Opens: October 20, 2022
Closes: November 20, 2022
Notification of acceptance
No later than November 21, 2022
Registration
Early bird registration
Opens: September 15, 2021
Closes: March 14, 2022
Middle bird registration
Opens: March 15, 2022
Closes: July 15, 2022
Late bird registration
Opens: July 16, 2022
Closes: November 21, 2022 (Conference end)
Presenters will need to have registered for the GLOCAL CALA by no later than November 21, 2022, to guarantee a place in the program. Registration will remain open after this date, but the conference organizers can not guarantee placement in the conference.
Conference Dates
Day 1: Wednesday November 23, 2022
Day 2: Thursday November 24, 2022
Day 3: Friday November 25, 2022
Conference Proceedings Book
By April 2022

Strands

Proposals should address one or more of the key strands for Asian 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
  • Text, Context, Entextualization

Submissions

Presentation lengths
Submitters must plan around the following:

  • Colloquia – 1.5 hours with 3-5 contributors (Part A and B is possible, thus 6-10 contributors)
  • General paper sessions – Approx. 20-25 minutes each, which includes 5 minutes for questions/responses
  • Posters – to be displayed at designated times throughout the CALA
Abstract Submission Guidelines
Submissions (proposals for papers, posters, colloquia) via website or email:

  • 18-word maximum presentation title
  • 400-word maximum abstract, including references
  • Colloquia: Upload the abstract for the colloquium, in the submissions box. The abstract must contain both the main description of the colloquium, as well as a summarized description of each individual paper to be presented within the colloquium. This information must include the names and affiliations of each author and presenter, the title of each respective session/presentation, as well as any other information believed relevant.
  • For individual papers submitted for review and acceptance into the general sessions, the first author will be the nominated ‘Corresponding Author’, but can also be a ‘Presenting author’ when completing the profile.
  • Each author must also confirm their role: Presenting author, non-presenting author, chair, or discussant.
Evaluation of Proposals
The Review Committee will evaluate the proposals, with the following criteria:

  • Appropriateness and significance of the topic to CALA themes
  • Originality/significance/impact of the research
  • Clarity/coherence of research concerns, theoretical and analytical framework(s), description of research, data collection, findings/conclusions, rhetoric, and exegesis as a whole
  • For colloquia, importance/significance of the overarching topic and/or framework(s) addressed, and its coherence of and with individual presentations.
  • All abstracts for presentations within the colloquia will not be peer reviewed by the CALA review committee, but are expected to be at a standard commensurate to the parent colloquium abstract, which will be peer reviewed by the CALA review committee. Thus, the acceptance of the colloquium, and hence all presentations and discussions within that colloquium, becomes predicated on the success of the review of the main proposal for that colloquium, submitted by the main organizers of the respective colloquium.
  • All abstracts for general sessions, which are selected and placed by the CALA selection committee, will be double blind reviewed.
Conditions of Submissions
  • A participant may be first author/presenter in a maximum of two presentations, be it individual papers, posters, or papers within colloquia.
  • In addition, a participant may act as chair, discussant, or co-author in one further presentation.
  • Alternatively, participants may act as first author/presenter in one presentation, and chair, discussant, or co-author in a maximum of two other
  • All proposals must present or interpret original work otherwise yet unavailable.
  • The language of the CALA is English. However, abstracts may be submitted in any language, but together with an English translation.
  • Presenters can present in any language, but must prepare an English translation for the presentation.
  • The CALA Committee will assign all relevant schedules to accepted individuals and groups.
  • Presenters must register and pay prior to March 23, 2022, to confirm their place at the CALA 2022, and hence for their presentations to be confirmed in the program.
  • Presenters are required to organize their own travel and accommodation arrangements. The CALA Organizers have secured accommodation at various locations around the city (see link for accommodation), details of which will be available for booking when registering for the CALA.

Presentations

Colloquia
1.5 hours with 3-5 contributors

  • Colloquia provide an opportunity for several presenters within the boundaries of a theme or topic to present together in a supportive environment. Colloquium organizers can tailor time lengths to each presentation, but must allow time to include opening and closing remarks, presentations, and audience interaction.
  • The colloquium chair is responsible for organizing the group and for submitting the colloquium in the Call for Papers platform on behalf of all their contributors.
  • All colloquium submissions must be uploaded to the submission site using the Colloquium Submission Form Template provided.
  • Panel organizers here will be responsible for panel chairs. Time keepers will be provided by the CALA.
General and non-colloquia session papers
  • Paper presentations will be allocated 25 minutes including 5 minutes for questions and answers.
  • Time keepers will be provided by the CALA.
Posters
  • Posters will be displayed at designated times throughout the CALA.
  • Posters are for one-on-one discussion of a symposium-related theme or topic.
  • A block of time will be allocated for presenters to discuss their posters.
  • Posters will be displayed in the designated areas (main halls).
  • Presenters will be assigned a space to display their poster.
  • Posters should be sized A0: 841 x 1189 mm width x height/ 33.1 x 46.8 inches width x height (landscape or portrait).
  • Submissions should contain a summary of key elements for the presentation.
  • Posters can include any relevant visuals or academically descriptive objects, where color is visually optimal.
  • Posters must be clear, concise, and simple, with large fonts, with the title of the project, and author information (name and affiliation).

Fees

Students/Affiliates:
Early Bird: USD 100
Late Bird/On-site: USD 200
Others:
Early Bird: USD 210
Late Bird/On-site: USD 250

Fees

Papers Presented

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Papers Presented

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Papers Presented

Papers presented at the GLOCAL CALA 2022:
 
https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/cala-2022-papers/