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Francisco Antonio Montaño started the topic Nominations sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA Linguists,
The LSL Romance Linguistics Forum of the MLA is currently seeking candidates to participate in the group’s governance. Nominees will have a chance to decide the forum’s priorities, organize panels, and interact with other standing member organizations of the MLA. The terms are generally for five years. We are currently see…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Benefits of reflex prediction. A case study of Western Kho-Bwa in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoWhile analysing lexical data of Western Kho-Bwa languages of the Sino-Tibetan or Trans-
Himalayan family with the help of a computer-assisted approach for historical language
comparison, we observed gaps in the data where one or more varieties lacked forms for certain
concepts. We employed a new workflow, combining manual and automated steps,…[Read more] -
Johann-Mattis List deposited Linguistic Diversity: Empirical Perspectives in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoWhen comparing the more than 7000 human language varieties spoken today, one encounters a huge diversity in all domains of language, ranging from phonology via morphology up to syntax and pragmatics. In the seminar, we explored how language diversity can be studied empirically. In order to do so, we looked at linguistic approaches to the study of…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited A digital, retro-standardized edition of the Tableaux phonétiques des patois Suisses romands (TPPSR) in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis study presents a digital, retro-standardized edition of the Tableaux Phonétiques des Patois Suisses Romands (TPPSR), an early collection of lexical dialect data of the Suisse romande, which was compiled by Louis Gauchat, Jules Jeanqaquet, and Ernest Tappolet in the beginning of the 20th century and later published in 1925. While the plan of…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA CFP : “Spanish in the US: Globalization, Glocalization and New Discourses” in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe session seeks papers that examine new discourses, practices, and identities, in US Latino and Hispanic communities in response to social pressures from above and outside (globalization) and social pressures from below and inside (glocalization). In particular, the session hopes to address questions pertaining to space, place, dominance,…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoProust was strongly opposed to the idea of a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.
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James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAnnouncing a reading group on the limits of the novel
June 6 – August 29
I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]
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Elena Garcia-Martin started the topic CFP for a volume on Pedagogies in Mixed Language Classrooms in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues. Many thanks
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Maheswari D deposited தமிழ் இலக்கியங்களில் பெண்ணிய கட்டமைப்பும் கட்டுடைப்பும்/CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF FEMINISM IN TAMIL LITERATURE, VOL – 1 in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 3 : VOL – 1, FEBRUARY 2020.
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Extended deadline—please submit your abstracts by March 30th in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:
Panel 1:
“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperd…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Extended deadline—please submit your abstracts by March 30th in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:
Panel 1:
“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperdine.…[Read more]
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María Irene Moyna started the topic Call for Papers: New Approaches to Romance Linguistics in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoLinguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Romance Linguistics; Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: March 15, 2020
Meeting Description and Call for Papers:
The Romance Linguistics Forum welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites abstracts exploring any area of Romance…[Read more]
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Dirk Schmidt deposited A Speech Corpus of Dharamsala Tibetan in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn 2016-2017, a 10-person team worked for 3 months with the goal of creating a multi-use, balanced corpus, similar to the Brown Corpus (BROWN Corpus search online). The speech section of the completed Nanhai Corpus—named for its sponsors, the Nanhai Nunnery of Taiwan—is a 289,497 word corpus of collected, transcribed, and word-split natural spe…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Seeking interested candidates to run for the language change forum in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoHi 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]
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Laura Aull replied to the topic Session topic suggestions for MLA 2021 in Toronto in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 6 years agoEmbracing Linguistic Diversity
Times of mass migration and technological revolution are times of language change. For communities experiencing such change, language can be a site of exploration: a site for celebrating linguistic diversity and natural curiosity about language. Alternatively, language can be a site of discrimination: a site for…[Read more]
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Taryn Hakala started the topic Session topic suggestions for MLA 2021 in Toronto in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe 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.
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James McElvenny deposited La grammaticalisation et la circulation internationale des idées linguistiques in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 6 years agoResearch into grammaticalization has an established genealogy, which records the birth of the term “grammaticalization” in more or less its present-day sense with Antoine Meillet (1866–1936), but recognizes an intellectual lineage extending back to at least the Enlightenment. Among the immediate predecessors of Meillet, Georg von der Gabel…[Read more]
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María Irene Moyna started the topic nominations sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum,
The Romance Linguistics Forum is currently seeking candidates to participate in the group’s governance. Nominees will have a chance to decide the forum’s priorities, organize panels, and interact with other standing member organizations of the MLA. The terms are generally for five years.
We…[Read more]
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