Hi colleagues,

The Language Change forum is currently looking for members who would be willing to be nominated as an alternate for the upcoming executive committee member election. If you are interested, please let me know by Wednesday, February 5th.

For more information about the MLA’s executive committee forums, please visit the following link…[Read more]

The Language Change forum’s executive committee would like to solicit ideas from its membership for potential session topics for the 2021 convention in Toronto. Topics related to the 2021 presidential theme, “Persistence,” are welcome but not required. If you would like to contribute your ideas, please respond to this post no later than Friday, January 24.

Unfortunately, two of our roundtable speakers were unable to attend the MLA convention this year, so we have canceled our Thursday afternoon session: 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions. Apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you at our Saturday afternoon session: 545 – Being Human, Technology, and New Media.

Dear all,

I am the current chair of the Language Theory’s executive committee. At the encouragement of MLA, I am putting together a mentorship program. We are all witnessing a difficult time in the academy, and a support system for burgeoning scholars is so crucial. You can sign on as a mentee or volunteer as a mentor.

Here’s how the first step…[Read more]

51st Convention, NeMLA, Boston, March 5-8 2020

“The Old and the New: Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish”

The session seeks papers that examine Spanish in the United States (Mexican, Caribbean, Latin American) as it relates to old and new Hispanic community practices and border crossing (geographical, political, eth…[Read more]

DEADLINE EXTENDED: FRIDAY, MARCH 29

CFP: Being Human, Technology, and New Media

The Language Change Forum seeks papers that address aspects of language change, acquisition, or linguistic transactions related to the MLA 2020 presidential theme (Being Human), technology, and new media.

300-word abstracts to Taryn Hakala (taryn.hakala@gmail.com)…[Read more]

Constructed Languages

This panel will include papers that study “conlangs” in their historical, auxiliary, and fantastic varieties. Submit 250-word abstracts by March 8, 2019 to Mary Hayes (hayes@olemiss.edu). Submission Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

In a society where urban life recreates otherness, dissolves geographical and social borders, creates transnational spaces and crafts new identities, how do Latinos and Hispanic immigrants of various Latin American regions living in cities in the US (re)build the local and global from inter- and cross-cultural perspectives: language, history,…[Read more]

The Forum on Language Change extended its CFP for the 2019 MLA in Chicago to March 15.  See details below for each session.

“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity performance. 300-…[Read more]

The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2019 MLA in Chicago. See details below for each session.

“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity per…[Read more]

The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2019 MLA in Chicago. See details below for each session.

“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity per…[Read more]

The 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-nomination) to Brian Mann, D…[Read more]

623: Language Change: Global (Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity
Saturday, January 06, 2018

03:30 PM – 04:45 PM
Hilton – Nassau East

Presider
Roshawnda Derrick
Pepperdine U

Promoting Plurilingual Approaches to Integration
Ines Bruenner, Oberlin C

Language Change: The Creation of the Variety Lunfardo as Linguistic Reaction to…[Read more]

145: Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism
Thursday, January 04, 2018
05:15 PM – 06:30 PM
Hilton – Concourse G
Presider
D. Brian Mann
U of North Georgia

From Linguistic Self-Confidence to Linguistic Insecurity: The Discursive Construction of Identities of Resistance
Sibusiwe Dube, Penn State U, University…[Read more]