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James McElvenny deposited Rezension: Sebastian Fink, Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer, und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoRezension
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Democracy and the Vernacular Imagination in Vico’s Plebian Philology in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines Giambattista Vico’s philology as a contribution to democratic legitimacy. I outline three steps in Vico’s account of the historical and political development of philological knowledge: first, his merger of philosophy and philology, and the effects of that merger on the relative claims of reason and authority; second, his use…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Pavel Iosad deposited Phonology in the Soviet Union in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago(Revised version) Submitted to B. Elan Dresher and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), The Oxford History of Phonology
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2019,CFP: Local and Global: ‘Spanish(es),’ Identity and Space in US Cities in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn 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]
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James McElvenny deposited Georg von der Gabelentz in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) occupies an interesting place at the intersection of several streams of linguistic scholarship at the end of the nineteenth century. As Professor of East-Asian languages at the University of Leipzig from 1878 to 1889 and then Professor for Sinology and General L…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Ces traîtres qui affament notre peuple. Argent et antisémitisme dans la « Recherche » proustienne in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Jewish ‘question’ is treated in the Recherche by way of the Dreyfus Affaire, which is not spoken of but scattered in the discourses of different characters. Definitions, opinions, even facts are, therefore, spread in the ubiquity of social instability, so that it is impossible for the reader to identify any of Proust’s ideologies.In our paper…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited August Schleicher and Materialism in 19th-Century Linguistics in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoTowards the end of his career, August Schleicher (1821–1868), the great consolidator of Indo-European historical-comparative linguistics in the mid-19th century, famously drew explicit parallels between linguistics and the new evolutionary theory of Darwinism. Based on this, it has become customary in linguistic historiography to refer to S…[Read more]
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Matthew Scarborough deposited Thematic Bibliography of Ancient Greek Dialectology (Preliminary Version) in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDocument contains a preliminary partially annotated bibliography of key works on Ancient Greek dialectology, originally compiled in 2015.
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James McElvenny deposited Linguistic Aesthetics from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century: The Case of Otto Jespersen’s “Progress in Language” in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoFrom the early nineteenth century up until the first half of the twentieth century, many leading scholars in the emerging field of linguistics were occupied with what would today be considered a kind of linguistic typology. The various classifications of languages they proposed were generally intertwined with speculation about the “racial” tra…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: CFP deadline extended, March 15 in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe 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] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum, CFP 2019: deadline today in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe 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] -
Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago<div class=””>
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<div class=””><b class=””><i class=””><span class=””>Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician</span></i></b><span class=””><b class=””>
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Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago<div class=””>
<div class=””><span class=””><span style=”font-family: Helvetica-Light;”>Call For Papers</span></span></div>
<div class=””><b class=””><i class=””><span class=””>Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician</span></i></b><span class=””><b class=””> (</b>Guaranteed Session, MLA Convention, Chicago, 3-6 January, 2…[Read more] -
Carolina Gonzalez started the topic Call for Papers: Selected Topics in Romance Lingusitics at MLA 2019 in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDate: January 03-06, 2019.
Location: Chicago
Contact Person: Carolina González (cgonzalez3@fsu.edu)Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Romance Linguistics; Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: March 15, 2018
Meeting Description and Call for Papers:
The Romance Linguistics Forum welcomes a wide range of…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: 2019 CFP in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe 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] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: nominations and self-nominations in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe 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]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Digital Oulipo: Programming Potential Literature in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo understand the Oulipo’s forays into computer science and more importantly, why they abandoned them, I designed and carried out one of the inaugural projects of the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities. The goal was twofold: first, through exploratory programming, I intended to create interactive, digital annexes to accompany my doctoral…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoDocument annotation is almost as old as writing. The designers of the World Wide Web envisioned a system that would allow people to publicly annotate any document. The advent of cloud computing has finally made this feasible: distributed annotation systems like Hypothes.is allow users to save annotations privately, or share them with the public.…[Read more]
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