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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Mozárabe in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years agoEste término tiene que ver con la caracterización socio-religiosa, se trata de cristianos, y no con una caracterización lingüística. No hubo ni lengua ni dialectos mozárabes, es decir, limitados a los cristianos. Hubo un romance andalusí, polimórfico, que era utilizado por los diversos habitantes de al-Ándalus, cristianos, musulmanes y judíos,…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited VAT. LAT. 12900. EL FRAGMENTO LATINO VISIGÓTICO DE LA EPÍSTOLA A LOS GÁLATAS Y SU VERSIÓN ÁRABE ANDALUSÍ* 1 in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years agoLa expansión del islam no significó la desaparición del cristianismo en esos territorios,
donde, en condiciones más o menos precarias, según las épocas y los lugares, se ha mantenido
hasta hoy; pero incluso en los escritos cristianos, el latín fue sustituido por el árabe,
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Megan M. Ferry deposited Language Programs’ Post-pandemic Future in Designing a Sustainable Life in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years agoCollegiate language programs faced challenges for survival long before COVID-19 hit the US. Now with the impending financial fallout from having to move online, colleges and universities will be scrutinizing even more so the value and viability of supporting language departments. This presentation will present a snapshot of where language programs…[Read more]
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Michael A. Burke deposited “Double the Fun: Implementing “Multiple Measures” and Accelerated Learning Program Simultaneously” in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.
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Francisco Antonio Montaño started the topic Nominations sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA Linguists,
The LSL Romance Linguistics Forum of the MLA 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 years. We are currently see…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA CFP : “Spanish in the US: Globalization, Glocalization and New Discourses” in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe session seeks papers that examine new discourses, practices, and identities, in US Latino and Hispanic communities in response to social pressures from above and outside (globalization) and social pressures from below and inside (glocalization). In particular, the session hopes to address questions pertaining to space, place, dominance,…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoProust was strongly opposed to the idea of a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.
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Elena Garcia-Martin started the topic CFP for a volume on Pedagogies in Mixed Language Classrooms in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues. Many thanks
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Shawn Casey started the topic Call for Papers: Women & Language in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe editor asked us to share the following call for submissions with the HEP Community College Forum.
The call can also be found here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Extended deadline—please submit your abstracts by March 30th in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:
Panel 1:
“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperdine.…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic Extension: Centering Student Expertise MLA 2021 CFP – Deadline March 18 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoAt least one member of the forum has asked for an extension of our CFP. It seems the least we can do, given the circumstances. MLA has not extended the deadline to submit panels, however, so we still need proposals this week, by end of day Wednesday the 18th if possible. Please email with any concerns: scasey5@cscc.edu.
This week I return to…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic MLA 2021: Centering Student Expertise proposals due 15 March 2020 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months ago“How do collaborative teaching and learning, alternative assessments, corequisites, and other classroom strategies reject the deficit model and center student experience? A panel on practical approaches for dismantling hierarchies in English.”
250-word proposals may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]
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María Irene Moyna started the topic Call for Papers: New Approaches to Romance Linguistics in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoLinguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Romance Linguistics; Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: March 15, 2020
Meeting Description and Call for Papers:
The Romance Linguistics Forum welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites abstracts exploring any area of Romance…[Read more]
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