MLA 2024, Philadelphia

Special Session: Language and the City: An Ecolinguistic View of Philadelphia Spanish

We take our language for granted: its existence, its social, its cultural and its aesthetic values. Yet, no language is immortal as change is inexorable. In biodiversity, we fight to protect endangered species, mourn the extinction of…[Read more]

The 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]

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]

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]

April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html
<p style=”margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;”><span style=”color: #333333;”>Call for Papers:</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;”><span style=”color: #333333;”>The notion of “community” sometimes centers unquestioningly on whatever it is shared by a…[Read more]

The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2018 MLA in New York City.  See details below for each session.

“Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”

The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals that explore “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity…[Read more]

“Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism”

The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals that explore “Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism” for the 2018 MLA in New York City.  We are especially interested in those that examine Language Change in the context ofhow recent politi…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]