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Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThis chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Carla Suhr started the topic Calls for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2024 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics, especially those involving real-world interfaces such as fieldwork, digital data, interdisciplinary projects or courses, and…[Read more]
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Carla Suhr started the topic Calls for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2024 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics, especially those involving real-world interfaces such as fieldwork, digital data, interdisciplinary projects or courses, and…[Read more]
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Carla Suhr started the topic Nominations Sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum,
It´s that time of the year again! 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 term…[Read more]
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Amanda Boomershine started the topic 2023 General Linguistics Forum: in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoWe’d like to invite you to Session 269 on January 6 at 12pm via Zoom to hear presentations on Language in Society: Issues of Equity & Access.
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Benita Sampedro replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoLaura Lesta García and Catherine Barbour
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]
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Holly A. Yanacek started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Language & Society Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
The MLA LSL Language & Society Forum Executive Committee is seeking candidates interested in serving on this committee for a five-year term from January 2023- January 2028. Forum executive committee members typically meet once per year at or around the time of the MLA Convention to decide the forum’s priorities and plan f…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoContrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CFP: Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Langs in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoA conference will be held on the theme of ‘Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Languages’ on 23-25 March 2023, hosted by the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin, Ireland. The deadline for submission of 250 word abstracts is Friday, 28 October 2022. Further information about the…[Read more]
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Carla Suhr started the topic Nominations Sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 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 yea…[Read more]
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Francisco Antonio Montaño started the topic Call for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoCall for Papers:
The Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2023 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical, socio-pragmatic, or applied) within any variation framework for the 2023 MLA Convention.…[Read more]
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Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023 in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider submitting your paper to the following panels organized for the Luso-Brazilian forum for the MLA 2023. Presentations in English or Portuguese will be accepted. Proposals are due by March 15, 2022.
Black and Indigenous Literatures in Portuguese. Papers examining literature written in Portuguese by people of African and Indigenous…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoComo homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoEl primer objetivo de esta edición es la reconstrucción crítica del texto, llevando hasta sus últimas consecuencias las hipótesis lingüísticas, porque un texto es, primero, la lengua en que fue escrito. Para esta reconstrucción crítica podremos recurrir a la ayuda del ordenador, pero lo que contará fundamentalmente serán los datos obtenidos…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Reflexiones sobre estratos y contacto: Al-Andalús, Afrorrománico, América, Palestina. in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe object of this research is divided among phenomena observed in al-Andalús, in North Africa, with the peculiarity that data from America and its languages can help to clarify certain points and, finally, in Palestine. There is therefore a historical journey and a synchronous investigation. This has given rise to reflections that relate…[Read more]
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