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M. Emma Ticio Quesada deleted the file: Fine-tuning facts: Evidence from Spanish and Portuguese–Patrícia Amaral (Indiana University ) & Manuel Delicado Cantero (Australian National University) from
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago -
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in c…[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 Forum Delegate Election: Call for Suggestions in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative for TC Cognitive and Affect Studies will be held 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 m…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures
The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more] -
Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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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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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative Rhetoric and the Mind (ACLA 2017) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)
Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysis, and…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Col…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThanks! Interesting.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoYes, I was notified yesterday.
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Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoGreat! Have they notified you that your session proposal has been accepted? I have not yet gotten any notification about mine.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCFP (Conference): Representations of Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture
Northeastern Modern Language Association, Baltimore, March 23-26, 2017
Deadline: September 30, 2016
The panel seeks to bring together interdisciplinary research papers across, but not limited to, sociolinguistics, cultural studies,…[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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Brooke Carlson deposited (Skillfully) Wielding the World-Wide Web in the Classroom: “I’m NOT Gonna Be That Creepy Guy” in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI used to share with my classes that ebooks are outselling books, and like the music industry, the book market is now digital. While the record business has shifted in profound ways with the rise of digital technology, the book press is still in flux. Digital book sales over the past couple of years have been fluctuating around book sales. As a…[Read more]
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