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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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Laraine R. Fergenson deposited Final Report of the MLA Committee on Diversity and Tolerance in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance was formed in response to a motion passed by the Delegate Assembly in 1999 calling for the reconstitution of what had been the Task Force against Campus Bigotry. The new committee was to be charged with “working to establish a climate in which all students, faculty, and other college employees, no m…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[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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Robert Victor Wess deposited A McKeonist Understanding of Kenneth Burke's Rhetorical Realism in Particular and Constructivism in General in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoReaders of KB Journal likely know Richard McKeon mainly through his essays on rhetoric and his relationship to Kenneth Burke. But McKeon was first and foremost a philosopher who came to rhetoric in mid-career, so that his work is a philosophical path to and defense of rhetoric. This path, moreover, precisely because of its philosophical depth,…[Read more]
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Thomas F. Shannon started the topic New Work in Language Theory in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory solicits papers focussing on aspects of linguistics that contribute to trends in language theory. Paper proposals of 250-300 words by 23 March 2015 to Thomas F. Shannon (tshannon@berkeley.edu).
Best regards,
TFS (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Language Theory)
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Thomas F. Shannon started the topic MLA 2016 Call for Papers: Language Theory and Description in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory seeks presentations exploring interdigitations of language theory and linguistic description. Please submit paper proposals of 250-300 words by 24 March 2015 to Thomas F. Shannon (tshannon@berkeley.edu).
Best regards,
TFS (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Language Theory)
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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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General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoSilvia Marijuan’s talk was titled ‘Spanish vernacular use in college L2 language classrooms amongst Spanish heritage speakers in Washington, DC’
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic Abstract, MLA 2015, Recent Work in Narrative & Discourse, Div. of Lang. Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month ago246. Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 18 VCC East: Floor Plans
Program arranged by the Division on Language Theory
Updated: December 30, 2014
1. “Lula versus Obama and the 2016 Olympic Bid: A Cognitive Framework for Discourse Analysis,”
Ricardo Gualda, Universidade Federal da Bahia
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic Abstracts, MLA 2015, Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, Div. of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoStudies in Cognitive Linguistics
Thursday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 14 VCC East: Floor Plans
Program arranged by the Division on Language Theory
1. “Cognition in Interaction: Substantiating Context in Language Use and Grammaticalization”
Anneliese Kuhle, Freie Universität Berlin
AbstractUsage-based approaches to the study of language mai…[Read more]
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