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.

____________________

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.

____________________

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

Thursday, 5 January

The Changing Boundaries of Language Instruction

1:45–3:00 p.m., 303, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change

Presiding: D. Brian Mann, Univ. of North Georgia

“The Lingering Problem of the Native Speaker in Foreign Language Education,” Margaret Keneman, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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We invite explorations of pedagogical practices addressing specific language structures in the context of a literary text, thus, uniting literature and English language studies.

Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu

We invite abstracts that approach texts from a linguistic perspective in order to explore potential commonalities and differences between literary and non-literary language.

Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu

Prix 2017 du Comité de liaison des associations dix-neuviémistes

Désireux de récompenser et promouvoir les travaux de chercheurs portant sur le XIXe siècle, le Comité de Liaison des Associations Dix-neuviémistes (CL 19) a créé un prix annuel destiné à couronner une thèse de doctorat ou un mémoire de troisième cycle portant sur le XIXe siècle (…[Read more]

When it meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, this forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new forum representative in the Delegate Assembly. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has b…[Read more]

Call for papers for “Style.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies (University of Virginia, November 9-11, 2017). Abstract due March 15, 2017.

Organized by Cheryl Krueger and Claire Lyu

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2017

Odd Bodies, March 16-19, 2017. Philadelphia.

Nineteenth-century bodies were poked and prodded, characterized, caricatured, corseted and cossetted, disciplined, displayed, naturalized, normalized, medicalized, mapped and mechanized. Sciences and pseudosciences brought the body under…[Read more]