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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for First Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe first-ever election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the Philadelphia convention in January. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic 2 conference CFPs in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThere are two conferences taking place this summer that might be of interest to Galicianistas in this forum:
Identidades en transición: representacións culturais da diáspora galega, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), 16-17 June 2017. CFP and other info available here: http://identidades2017.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/call-for-papers/
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Hsiang-Hua Melanie Chang deposited Interpretation of Bare and Demonstrative Noun Phrases in the Acquisition of Mandarin in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMandarin nominals may appear bare or non-bare in various positions with different interpretations. Questions arise as to how Mandarin-speaking children interpret bare nominals, given that bare nominals can have various interpretations. On the other hand, how do they interpret non-bare nominals, such as demonstrative nominals? This experimental…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Book review: A new republic of letters: Memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA book review of Jerome McGann’s A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
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Hania Nashef deposited اهلا, hello and bonjour: a postcolonial analysis of Arab media's use of code switching and mixing and its ramification on the identity of the self in the Arab world in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCode switching is a practice exercised by multilingual speakers. Linguists define the term as the simultaneous use of more than one language. Code switching is prevalent in postcolonial countries in which the colonial language has continued to exist alongside the native language. In the past, code switching in the Arab world has been confined to…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFPs: Galician Studies–Philly 2017 Convention in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago1) The Standardization of Galician: A Response to Language Contact and Change
Forum: LLC Galician
Inc. contemporary history/prospects for a Galician oral/standard variety; language standardization as a tool for language maintenance and revival. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Obdulia Castro (ocastro@regis.edu).2) Round table: What is…[Read more]
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M. Emma Ticio Quesada started the topic Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics 2017 in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites the submission of abstracts for the 2017 Convention exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical or applied) within any framework. Although preference is given to papers addressing more than one…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months ago -
Carolina Gonzalez uploaded the file: Silvia Marijuan's handout to
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoSilvia Marijuan’s talk was titled ‘Spanish vernacular use in college L2 language classrooms amongst Spanish heritage speakers in Washington, DC’
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Francisco Martinez-Ibarra started the topic Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites the submission of abstracts for the 2016 Convention exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical or applied) within any framework. Although preference is given to papers addressing more than one…[Read more]
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