(For all participants, please, make sure to join RC25 and ISA or renew your membership berore 15th of January 2006, on that date sessions are assigned to research committees on the base of the number of their member who are also ISA member.")

The XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology is to be held in Durban, South Africa 23-29 July 2006. RC 25 expects to produce a full programme of sessions dealing with the full range of sociolinguistic topics.

Potential participants are urged to express their interest in organizing a session or in volunteering a paper at the earliest possible date. In order to comply with ISA deadlines, RC 25 has set the following deadlines:

All inquiries regarding participation in RC25 activities at the World Congress should be directed to Bob Herbert (warthog@sfasu.edu), who serves as the Programme Coordinator. All participants must be members in good standing of RC 25 and must register for the World Congress.

October 15, 2004 - Sociolinguists who want to organize a themed session for the Durban program should communicate with the Programme Coordinator by this date. Proposed sessions will be included in the eventual Call for Papers.

January 15, 2005 – Call for Papers issued by RC25 and ISA.

October 30, 2005 - Abstracts for volunteered papers should be submitted electronically to either the session organizer (for an announced session) or to the Programme Coordinator.

March 31, 2006 - Deadline for electronic submission of abstracts of accepted papers to ISA.

May 31, 2006 - Pre-registration deadline for all programme participants. Registration forms and information can be accessed at the ISA website: http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/.