Contributions to any of the directions within the spectrum of the Language and Society paradigm are welcome: Sociology of language, Social psychology of language, Discourse analysis, Conversation analysis, Ethnography of communication, Language and gender, Anthropological linguistics, Media language, Socio-stylistics, Variationist sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Geolinguistics, Historical sociolinguistics, Creole sociolinguistics, Cognitive sociolinguistics, Applied sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistic methods, etc. Covering major areas in the field, the plenary speakers will be:Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University, USA)Rebecca Clift (University of Essex, England)David Britain (University of Bern, Switzerland)Laura Wright (University of Cambridge, England)Francisco Moreno-Fernández (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
