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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Two 'Language Change' panels at MLA (Thursday and Saturday) in Philadelphia in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years agoThursday, 5 January
The Changing Boundaries of Language Instruction
1:45–3:00 p.m., 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change
Presiding: D. Brian Mann, Univ. of North Georgia
“The Lingering Problem of the Native Speaker in Foreign Language Education,” Margaret Keneman, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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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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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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T. Craig Christy started the topic Seeking nominations to Language Change Executive Committee in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Language Change Forum is seeking to fill one position on its Executive Committee. The position will be for the duration of 5 years. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please send your nominations (including self-nominations) to Craig C…[Read more]
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T. Craig Christy started the topic Language Change and Boundaries in the U.S. in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on “Language Change and Boundaries in the U.S.” for the 2017 MLA in Philadelphia. We seek papers that examine how language change in the United States casts new light on the conventional boundaries between native and foreign language, first and second language, standard and non-standard langu…[Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Rethinking the "L" in MLA in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe MLA Forum on Language Change invites proposals for a panel on “Rethinking the ‘L’ in MLA.” Papers might address questions like: What counts as a modern language? What value do linguistic issues and less-commonly taught languages have in the MLA? How can they inform literary studies?
Please send 300-word abstracts to Tara Williams ([Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on “Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction” for the 2016 MLA in Austin. We seek papers that examine how language change relates to linguistic identity construction and crossing borderlands (geographical, political, ethnic, social, perceptual, historical, religious). Papers t…[Read more]
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