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Donny Vigil started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: Language Theory Session…"Philology Old and New" in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Theory is accepting proposals for a panel session related to “Philology Old and New” for MLA 2018 in New York. We welcome submissions that examine what the renewed interest in philology means for literary, textual, and linguistic studies. Please send a 300-word abstract by March 24 to Donny Vigil (vigi7700@stthomas.edu).
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Donny Vigil started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: Language Theory Session…"The Language of Silence" in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Theory is accepting proposals for a panel session related to “The Language of Silence” for MLA 2018 in New York. We welcome submissions on how recent political rhetoric regarding immigration leads to insecurity in educational settings including changes in language, discourse, pedagogy and programs. Please send a 300-word abs…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Pedro Esteban Ponce started the topic Introductory / Director's Courses for Study Abroad in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHello:
I’m in my first year of directing a study abroad program in Madrid. I was interested in hearing from current or former study abroad directors about how they approach the introductory or “orientation” course while abroad. How do you balance providing necessary information (about security, getting to know the host campus, etc.) with course…[Read more]
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Mary Wildner-Bassett deposited Applying Theories in Language Programs in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoSelected Topics in Applied Linguistics: How to Choose a Theory. I offer a critical exploration of some of the conditions involved in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), as well as of the paradoxical approaches in the theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives of ISLA.
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Mary Wildner-Bassett deposited Applying Theories in Language Programs in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years agoSelected Topics in Applied Linguistics: How to Choose a Theory. I offer a critical exploration of some of the conditions involved in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), as well as of the paradoxical approaches in the theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives of ISLA.
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Mary Wildner-Bassett deposited Applying Theories in Language Programs in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years agoSelected Topics in Applied Linguistics: How to Choose a Theory. I offer a critical exploration of some of the conditions involved in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), as well as of the paradoxical approaches in the theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives of ISLA.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Artaud y México in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay proposes the concept of literary immanence as a new critical model for reading world literature from the perspective of the specific situation experienced by the subject as he or she encounters the world. The literary event is instantiated within three discursive domains: literary immanence, the literary situation into which the subject…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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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 and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoPanel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies
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Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Institutional History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Institutional History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through organizations, schools, institutes, and symposia. Papers on any aspect of this institutional history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Peter M. Logan (peter.logan@temple.edu). -
Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Book History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Book History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through publishing. Papers investigating presses, journals, book series, or other aspects of print history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Jeffrey J. Williams (jwill@andrew.cmu.edu). -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear 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]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear 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]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2018: Call for Proposals: Advanced-level Second Language Composition in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues:
The Executive Committee of the MLA Forum on Applied Linguistics invites you to submit presentation proposals for the 2018 convention in New York City (4 to 7 January).
We invite abstracts for research that examines and provides data on advanced-level writing proficiency development; for example: the role and importance of…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2017: Forum on Applied Linguistics Sessions in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years ago269. Selected Topics in Applied Linguistics: How to Choose a Theory
Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 409, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LSL Applied Linguistics
Presiding: Lee B. Abraham, Columbia University
1. “Applying Theories in Language Programs,” Mary Wildner-Bassett, University of Arizona
2. “…[Read more]
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Kenric K. Tsethlikai started the topic Kenric – LSL App Ling Exec Committee in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear LSL Applied Linguistics Colleague,
This year, I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the Language Studies and Linguistics (LSL) Applied Linguistics forum of the MLA – that’s all of you in this MLA Commons forum.
With hope for your support, I’m sending this brief message about me and my motivation for the Forum. My name is Kenric T…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Make a Suggestion for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoLSL Language and Society will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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