The Steering Committee advises contributors to develop their abstracts, general papers, colloquia, posters, and other contributions through one of the following strands. However, contributors may wish to categorize their contributions as a hybrid of these strands, as a hybrid of one of these strands and other sub fields, or by developing innovative strands that proceed in novel directions. The Steering Committee welcomes such hybridity and innovation.
- Anthropological Intelligence
- Anthropological Linguistics
- Applied Sociolinguistics
- Buddhist Studies and Discourses
- Cognitive Anthropology and Language
- Critical Linguistic Anthropology
- Discourses of Religion and Spirituality
- Ethnographic Language Work
- Ethnography of Communication
- Ethnomusicology
- 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 and Migration
- Discourse in Political Apparatus
- Language and Culture as Tangible and Intangible Heritage
- Language, Anthropology, and Pedagogy
- Language: Material and Immaterial
- Language Minorities and Majorities
- Language Revitalization
- Language in Real and Virtual Spaces
- Language Socialization
- Language and Spatiotemporal Frames
- Multifunctionality
- Narrative and Metanarrative
- Nonverbal Semiotics
- Pedagogical Anthropology
- Poetics
- Performativity
- Post-Structuralism and Language
- Semiotics and Semiology
- Shamanism and Language
- Social Psychology of Language
- Text, Context, Entextualization
- Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Ethnomusicology
- Medical Discourse and Anthropology
- The Chronotope in Language
- The Discourse of New Technologies