International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 9:00am to Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 11:00am
Tucson Marriot University Park For more information: http://bit.ly/wss6conference

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Arizona is proud to sponsor and host the 6th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS6).

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together scholars to share original sociolinguistic research that analyzes Spanish data or data from contact situations between Spanish and other languages.

All sociolinguistic research studies are welcome but papers on language variation and change, bilingualism, language attitudes, language contact, and Spanish in the US will be given special consideration in the conference.

Keynote speakers:
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California

Invited speaker:
Kathryn Woolard, University of California, San Diego