Please consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues. Many thanks

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Please consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:

Panel 1:

“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperd…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:

Panel 1:

“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperdine.…[Read more]

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Romance Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: March 15, 2020

Meeting Description and Call for Papers:

The Romance Linguistics Forum welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites abstracts exploring any area of Romance…[Read more]

Hi colleagues,

The Language Change forum is currently looking for members who would be willing to be nominated as an alternate for the upcoming executive committee member election. If you are interested, please let me know by Wednesday, February 5th.

For more information about the MLA’s executive committee forums, please visit the following link…[Read more]

The Language Change forum’s executive committee would like to solicit ideas from its membership for potential session topics for the 2021 convention in Toronto. Topics related to the 2021 presidential theme, “Persistence,” are welcome but not required. If you would like to contribute your ideas, please respond to this post no later than Friday, January 24.

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 years.

We…[Read more]

Unfortunately, two of our roundtable speakers were unable to attend the MLA convention this year, so we have canceled our Thursday afternoon session: 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions. Apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you at our Saturday afternoon session: 545 – Being Human, Technology, and New Media.

Dear all,

I am the current chair of the Language Theory’s executive committee. At the encouragement of MLA, I am putting together a mentorship program. We are all witnessing a difficult time in the academy, and a support system for burgeoning scholars is so crucial. You can sign on as a mentee or volunteer as a mentor.

Here’s how the first step…[Read more]

51st Convention, NeMLA, Boston, March 5-8 2020

“The Old and the New: Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish”

The session seeks papers that examine Spanish in the United States (Mexican, Caribbean, Latin American) as it relates to old and new Hispanic community practices and border crossing (geographical, political, eth…[Read more]

DEADLINE EXTENDED: FRIDAY, MARCH 29

CFP: Being Human, Technology, and New Media

The Language Change Forum seeks papers that address aspects of language change, acquisition, or linguistic transactions related to the MLA 2020 presidential theme (Being Human), technology, and new media.

300-word abstracts to Taryn Hakala (taryn.hakala@gmail.com)…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.

The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109

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Literacy Transactions: People, Practices, and Texts   The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals on how literacies are exchanged between people and contexts. How do people, their literacy practices, and texts change as a result of this transaction? Submit 250-350 word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 April 2019 Peggy D.…[Read more]

Dear LSL Applied Linguistics members,

My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]

Constructed Languages

This panel will include papers that study “conlangs” in their historical, auxiliary, and fantastic varieties. Submit 250-word abstracts by March 8, 2019 to Mary Hayes (hayes@olemiss.edu). Submission Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019

Posting this at the journal’s request. There may be members interested in submitting work related to Galician:

Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all…[Read more]

Dear colleagues and friends,

Just to let you know that I am standing for election for the executive committee of the LLC Galician Forum of the MLA, and would be very grateful for your support.  I am keen to bring international representation to the forum, and hope to collaborate with US-based colleagues whilst helping to coordinate Galician…[Read more]