The General parasessions welcome papers on language revitalization and documentation, and descriptive and/or theoretical work that draw their data from community-based participatory research.
* In line with our goals of reaching out to Indigenous communities, we encourage scholars to present their descriptive & theoretical work that aligns with the community efforts to revitalize/maintain their language.
We welcome research on any topic covering American Indian languages (e.g., language documentation, description & theory, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, fieldwork, language revitalization, teaching pedagogy, language policy, community-based programs, use of digital technologies for language documentation and language revitalization). Indigenous communities are also encourage to present and promote their language revitalization/maintenance initiatives!
We are accepting proposals for three types of presentations: research papers, panels, and poster presentations.
Abstracts should be up to 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references). Abstracts should include the following information:
Title of paper
Name of author(s) and Institutional/Tribal affiliation (if any)
Author status (undergraduate/graduate student; post-doc; faculty; and/or member of an Indigenous community)
Session you wish to present (special session / general session / poster session)
Oral presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Special Session and General Session are limited to 30 minutes. The Special Session and General Session will take place at the same time.
The Poster Session will run for approximately 90 minutes. It provides an opportunity for more open-ended, two-way communication with the audiences (undergraduate students are invited to submit abstracts for this session).
Please submit your abstract in PDF format by email to sail.uarizona@gmail.com (with the subject: “Abstract - SAIL 2025")
Submission deadline: Tuesday, December 31st, 2024
Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 24 30, 2025.
If you have any questions, please contact us at sail.uarizona@gmail.com
We hope to see you in Tucson!
SAIL 2025 Organizing Committee