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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCFP (Conference): Representations of Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture
Northeastern Modern Language Association, Baltimore, March 23-26, 2017
Deadline: September 30, 2016
The panel seeks to bring together interdisciplinary research papers across, but not limited to, sociolinguistics, cultural studies,…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Brooke Carlson deposited (Skillfully) Wielding the World-Wide Web in the Classroom: “I’m NOT Gonna Be That Creepy Guy” in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI used to share with my classes that ebooks are outselling books, and like the music industry, the book market is now digital. While the record business has shifted in profound ways with the rise of digital technology, the book press is still in flux. Digital book sales over the past couple of years have been fluctuating around book sales. As a…[Read more]
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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T. Craig Christy started the topic Seeking nominations to Language Change Executive Committee in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Language Change Forum is seeking to fill one position on its Executive Committee. The position will be for the duration of 5 years. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please send your nominations (including self-nominations) to Craig C…[Read more]
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T. Craig Christy started the topic Language Change and Boundaries in the U.S. in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on “Language Change and Boundaries in the U.S.” for the 2017 MLA in Philadelphia. We seek papers that examine how language change in the United States casts new light on the conventional boundaries between native and foreign language, first and second language, standard and non-standard langu…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Rethinking the "L" in MLA in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe MLA Forum on Language Change invites proposals for a panel on “Rethinking the ‘L’ in MLA.” Papers might address questions like: What counts as a modern language? What value do linguistic issues and less-commonly taught languages have in the MLA? How can they inform literary studies?
Please send 300-word abstracts to Tara Williams ([Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on “Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction” for the 2016 MLA in Austin. We seek papers that examine how language change relates to linguistic identity construction and crossing borderlands (geographical, political, ethnic, social, perceptual, historical, religious). Papers t…[Read more]
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Terrence Potter posted an update in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoPlease plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”
Presentations during the session include:
1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]
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Dennis Baron uploaded the file: Speak the Language of your flag: American policy responses to nonanglophone immigrants to
Language and Society on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI’ll be presenting this illustrated talk at Present-Day English, Thursday, 3:30 pm, Illinois Room, Chicago Marriott. Language and Society members may be interested in this and other PDE talks.
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Dennis Baron uploaded the file: Speak the Language of Your Flag to
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoHere is a summary of my presentation for Present-Day English. Apparently the pdf of the presentation, even in reduced format, is too large to upload, because graphics. (#woty13, because x)
“Speak the language of your flag”: American policy responses to nonanglophone immigrants
Dennis Baron
Prof. of English and linguistics
Univ. of Illinois at Urb…[Read more]-
Very interested in hearing this presentation!
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