Call for Papers

The Abstracts receipt deadline was over. Those sending their abstracts by email will not be entertained at all. Many thanks for the considerable interest in ICOLSI-44. We received a huge number of Abstracts. We will keep you informed individually about the decision of your submission in a phase manner from 30 July till the last week of August. We prioritized reviewing the foreign scholars' abstracts and intimating the decision as well. This will enable their travel plan ahead of visiting India. We sincerely request that you keep browsing this website for future updates from our side.

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The Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India, will host the 44th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICoLSI-44) from November 24 to 26, 2022, at its Bhubaneswar campus located in Jatni (Khurda Road) jointly with the Linguistic Society of India, Pune, and supported by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru. This will be the first time that the ICoLSI will take place in the state of Odisha. Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations on original and unpublished research on any area of relevance to linguistics. There would also be two special sessions on Mother Tongues of Odisha, and Classical Odia language, Literature, Translation, History, Palaeontology, Culture & Heritage. The Conference is to be held only in physical participation. Click the EasyChair CfP [https://easychair.org/cfp/ICOLSI44]. EasyChair Submission link is withdrawn.

Paper Topics: The major areas of interest can include, but are not limited to, the following:

(a) Descriptive Linguistics

(b) Phonetics, Phonology & Morphology

(c) Syntax & Semantics

(d) Pragmatics & Stylistics

(e) Historical & Comparative Linguistics

(f) Language Contact & Change

(g) Language & Linguistic Typology

(h) Computational Linguistics, & NLP

(i) Sociolinguistics

(j) National Education Policy, and Language Policy & Planning

(k) Mother Tongue Education

(l) Language Teaching & Testing

(m) Linguistic Landscape, Socio-Semiotics & Media Studies

(n) Endangered Languages & lesser-known languages

(o) Language Revitalisation & Language Documentation

(p) AI, & Corpus Linguistics

(q) Translation Theory & Practice

(r) Cognitive & Psycho Linguistics

(s) Media Studies & Discourse Analysis

(t) Linguistic Ecology and Palaeontology

(u) Forensic Linguistics

(v) Linguistic Impropriety & Field Linguistics Ethics

(w) All Mother Tongues of Odisha

(x) Indian Classical Languages, Literature, Culture, Heritage & Epigraphy (with reference to Odia)

Please note that only one single-authored and/or co-authored paper(s) per participant will be permitted to encourage larger participation and a fair opportunity for all.

Abstract Guidelines

➡️ Submissions that fail to comply with any of the following guidelines will be automatically stand rejected.

➡️ Anonymize submissions by not including author name(s) in the Abstract or Filename.

➡️ Restrict submissions to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.

➡️ Submit abstracts in .pdf format with the filename “Paper_Title.pdf”.

➡️ Include the paper title and keywords (i.e., Track/Theme under session or title if applicable, linguistic subfield(s), language(s)/language family) within the Abstract.

➡️ Limit Abstract to one and half pages in length, including data and references (just select references are acceptable). Use one-inch margins and a font size no smaller than 11 points. Incorporate data into the main text of the Abstract, not on a separate page or Appendix page.