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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Language Change Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA General Linguistics Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Linguistics and Literature Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Marisa Verna deposited Art and poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoTeaching material online course
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Steven Ridgely deposited Terayama’s “China Doll” (in Japanese) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis is an analysis of Terayama Shūji’s 1981 film “Shanhai ijin shōkan,” a French co-production which was marketed in the Anglosphere as “China Doll” and in France as “Les Fruits de la passion,” invoking both Ōshima Nagisa’s 1978 “L’Empire de la passion” (the sequel to his notorious “Empire of the Senses” / “L’Empire des sens,” 1976) as well as Ro…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic 49th NeMLA Annual Convention: CFP in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Xiaofan Amy Li started the topic CFP – interdisciplinary conference 'Play, Recreation, Experimentation' in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Call For Papers: ‘Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times’, 8-9 Dec 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury. (details of dates and venue tbc)
Invited speakers: Professor Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter), Dr Thomas Karshan (UEA)
This inte…[Read more]
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Yasmine Beale-Rivaya posted an update in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoMLA 2018 Panel: Linguistics and Social Media. This guaranteed session seeks papers that examine different modes, applications, and venues of social media (textual, visual, audiovisual, interactive) from a linguistic perspective.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic CFP: "Intersecting Spaces, Mobility, and Language in the ‘Uncommon Community’" in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoApril 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] -
Marisa Verna deposited Corps connaissant(s) et pensée matérielle chez Proust. Les sens du Temps”. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper aims to define the concepts of “material thought” and “material time,” as they are theorized by Proust in the Preface of his Ruskin’s Amiens Bible translation, and as they are developed throughout the Recherche. In Proust’s oeuvre ‘material thought’ manifests itself mostly in linguistic and stylistic features, or in concrete images,…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
(Kroch 198…[Read more] -
Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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Angela Helmer started the topic MLA 2018 Call for Proposals LSL General Linguistics in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe Executive Committee, LSL General Linguistics, is seeking for proposals for the following sessions:
a) Linguistics and Social Media. This guaranteed session seeks papers that examine different modes, applications, and venues of social media (textual, visual, audiovisual, interactive) from a linguistic perspective. Email 250-word abstract by…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA, 2018: Two CFPs in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe 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]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: "La France est en guerre" (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA2018 CFP: Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years ago“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]
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Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years agoPanel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies
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