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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Polish Culture in Lesson 0 in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCulture and traditions constitute the essential elements in the process of Polish language education. The textbook Hurra po polsku. Podręcznik studenta by Małgorzata Małolepsza & Aneta Szymkiewicz in Lesson 0 introduces briefly Polish phonetic system and greeting expressions without offering any follow up exercises in the Hurra po polsku. Ze…[Read more]
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Tahia Abdel Nasser posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoLLC Arabic CFPs for MLA 2019
The Forum on Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for four sponsored panels at the 2019 MLA convention in Chicago:
Textual Transactions in Arabic Theory
Exploring critical theories and philosophies from the Middle East, North Africa, and diaspora. Tracing transnational, transregional, and…[Read more] -
Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2019 – Please share! in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWe are pleased to share the CFP for our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored sessions and the CFP for a collaborative session with the LSL Language and Society Forum. Please share with colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal for either session.
RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored session:
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Carolina Gonzalez started the topic Call for Papers: Selected Topics in Romance Lingusitics at MLA 2019 in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDate: January 03-06, 2019.
Location: Chicago
Contact Person: Carolina González (cgonzalez3@fsu.edu)Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Romance Linguistics; Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: March 15, 2018
Meeting Description and Call for Papers:
The Romance Linguistics Forum welcomes a…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCfP for MEHAT 2018, for graduate students. If you have/know graduate students, please encourage them to apply:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2018: Forum on Applied Linguistics Sessions in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues:
We cordially invite you to join us for the following sessions at MLA 2018 organized by the Forum on Applied Linguistics (online convention program). We look forward to seeing you.
67: Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Understanding
Thursday, January 4, 2018
1:45 PM – 03:00 PM
Hilton – BeekmanPresider: Mary Wil…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2018: Forum on Applied Linguistics Sessions in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues:
We cordially invite you to join us for the following sessions at MLA 2018 organized by the Forum on Applied Linguistics (online convention program). We look forward to seeing you.
67: Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Understanding
Thursday, January 4, 2018
1:45 PM – 03:00 PM
Hilton – BeekmanPresider: Mary Wil…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2018: Forum on Applied Linguistics Sessions in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues:
We cordially invite you to join us for the following sessions at MLA 2018 organized by the Forum on Applied Linguistics (online convention program). We look forward to seeing you.
67: Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Understanding
Thursday, January 4, 2018
1:45 PM – 03:00 PM
Hilton – BeekmanPresider: Mary Wil…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM’s Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]
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José Angel García Landa deposited A Comparison between the French and RP English Vowel Systems in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis is a paper in comparative phonology, which undertakes a detailed comparative analysis of the standard British English RP (Received Pronunciation) vowel system, and that of standard French, including some observations on regional varieties.
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José Angel García Landa deposited A Comparison between the French and RP English Vowel Systems in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis is a paper in comparative phonology, which undertakes a detailed comparative analysis of the standard British English RP (Received Pronunciation) vowel system, and that of standard French, including some observations on regional varieties.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Language and Society Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA General Linguistics Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Applied Linguistics Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Yasmine Beale-Rivaya posted an update in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoMLA 2018 Panel: Linguistics and Social Media. This guaranteed session seeks papers that examine different modes, applications, and venues of social media (textual, visual, audiovisual, interactive) from a linguistic perspective.
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces
49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
“Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds”
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaNeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries…[Read more]
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selisker deposited The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis essay describes the popular Bechdel Test—a measure of women’s dialogue in films—in terms of social network analysis within fictional narrative. It argues that this form of vernacular criticism arrives at a productive convergence with contemporary academic critical methodologies in surface and postcritical reading practices, on the one hand,…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
(Kroch 198…[Read more] - Load More