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Shakil Rabbi started the topic Nominations for the LSL Language and Society Committee in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoColleagues! Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL Language and Society Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity centered around language and society in the MLA, and get to meet and interact with other MLA members…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years agoSe recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years agoDuring the long time of its documentation, Latin could not remain unchanged, so there had to be a cultured, writ-ten variant of the language and popular variants, which evolved into dialectal forms, Afro-Latin-Romance variants. As far as the African part is concerned, the novelty of this study, especially for Romanists and Arabists, is to convey…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years agoEl objetivo principal de este libro es recoger y transmitir reflexiones y resultados de una investigación que ha evolucionado en paralelo a la vida profesional de su autor. Arranca de la pregunta sobre cómo era la situación lingüística de la Península Ibérica tras la llegada de los sarracenos, en qué ambientes se iniciaron las lenguas romance…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years agoColleagues in the MLA’s Language Studies and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and i…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years agoColleagues in the MLA’s Language Studies and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and i…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years agoColleagues in the MLA’s Language Study and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and…[Read more]
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Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Executive Committee — Nominees Needed in the discussion
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.
- Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
- Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
- No member…
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Randall Gess started the topic Nominations sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum (or related 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…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic 622A – Talking Feelings: Emotion and Affection on Heritage Language Pedagogy in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years agoJoin our online session tomorrow, January 6 at 5:15pm!
Gabriela De Robles (University of Colorado Denver): The socio-affective dimensions of written corrective feedback for heritage language learners
Juyoung Song (Murray State University): Emotion in Mother’s Heritage Language Maintenance
Aída Martínez-Gómez (John Jay College of Criminal Ju…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic Kahn Chair in Humanities at SMU in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoPosition No. 00052460. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s “It Must be Heaven” and Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAbstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.
The songs in Sulei…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoUntil now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain replied to the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoMy main area of research is linguistic historiography, the history of linguistics. Within that field, I’m particularly interested in how indigenous languages of the Americas have been described and documented, and by whom, and how description and documentation of these language shaped linguistics in the US and elsewhere.
That said, my current…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain started the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSome forum members may have received a survey last week, as I did, inquiring about how we use the Humanities Commons and what we would like it to be. I realized that 1) I don’t use the Humanities and MLA Commons all that much and 2) I would very much like for them to be spaces that spark connections and collaborations.
To that end, I thought I’d…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2024, Language and the City: An Ecolinguistic View of Philadelphia Spanish. in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMLA 2024, Philadelphia
Special Session: Language and the City: An Ecolinguistic View of Philadelphia Spanish
We take our language for granted: its existence, its social, its cultural and its aesthetic values. Yet, no language is immortal as change is inexorable. In biodiversity, we fight to protect endangered species, mourn the extinction of…[Read more]
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Ervin Malakaj started the topic CfP: Sessions Organized by the Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCfP: Sessions Organized by the MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching2024 Modern Language Association Annual ConventionJanuary 4-7, Philadelphia
The MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2024 MLA…[Read more] - Load More
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