Dear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum,

It´s that time of the year again! The Romance Linguistics Forum 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 term…[Read more]

We’d like to invite you to Session 269 on January 6 at 12pm via Zoom to hear presentations on Language in Society: Issues of Equity & Access.

Members of the Language Theory group,

The Call for Papers topics for the 2023 MLA Annual Convention have been posted here: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session13763.html

Please consider submitting a paper proposal for one of the topics, and please circulate them to interested colleagues!

The deadline for submissions is…[Read more]

Dear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum,

The Romance Linguistics Forum 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 yea…[Read more]

Call for Papers:

The Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2023 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical, socio-pragmatic, or applied) within any variation framework for the 2023 MLA Convention.…[Read more]

To the TM Language Theory Group membership: we invite nominations—and self-nominations—to join the Executive Committee of the TM Language Theory group. Nominations would be for the coming year going forward, for the standard 5-year cycle of Executive Committee activity. This primarily involves determining, advertising, and selecting the topics and…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your paper to the following panels organized for the Luso-Brazilian forum for the MLA 2023. Presentations in English or Portuguese will be accepted. Proposals are due by March 15, 2022.

Black and Indigenous Literatures in Portuguese. Papers examining literature written in Portuguese by people of African and Indigenous…[Read more]

Thanks to all who attended our panels this past week. Please also join me in thanking Joshua Thoms, our outgoing LSL Applied Linguistics forum president, who did much of the work organizing and coordinating those talks.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Executive Committee, I am writing to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for a…[Read more]

CfP Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity

https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/2689623/notice-21-11-18-change-over-time-in-the-iberian-worlds

The mpilhlt’s Glocalising Normativities project aims to construct a global history of normative production by studying the interaction of local processes of the cultural t…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:  My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:  My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

You might see me on your ballots for the forum’s executive committee in the MLA elections this month, so I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself to the group since I haven’t had the chance to meet many of you yet.

My name is Laura Francis, and I’m a PhD candidate at Cornell University focusing on translation stu…[Read more]