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Carla Suhr started the topic Calls for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2024 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics, especially those involving real-world interfaces such as fieldwork, digital data, interdisciplinary projects or courses, and…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years agoHello everyone!
I hope all of you have arrived safely in San Francisco and are having a great experience at the MLA this year.
This is a friendly reminder that our session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” is tomorrow, Saturday, 1/7/23, at 10:15 am, in Moscone West – 3018.
For more information about the panel, click here.
This…[Read more]
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Tahneer Oksman started the topic Seeking nominations in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through January 2029.
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Amanda Boomershine started the topic 2023 General Linguistics Forum: in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoWe’d like to invite you to Session 269 on January 6 at 12pm via Zoom to hear presentations on Language in Society: Issues of Equity & Access.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. 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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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Panel at MLA 2023 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoHello everyone!
We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!
Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[Read more]
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Holly A. Yanacek started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Language & Society Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
The MLA LSL Language & Society Forum Executive Committee is seeking candidates interested in serving on this committee for a five-year term from January 2023- January 2028. Forum executive committee members typically meet once per year at or around the time of the MLA Convention to decide the forum’s priorities and plan f…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoContrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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aecklund started the topic New MLA International Bibliography tutorial on cross-cultural communication in the discussion
MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoWe at the MLA have recently released a new tutorial on the subject of researching cross-cultural communication in the Bibliography. Please share with your students and colleagues! And let us know if you have suggestions for topics we should cover in our tutorials.
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Matthew Giancarlo started the topic Language Theory Session CFP topics posted for MLA 2023: invitation to submit in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMembers of the Language Theory group,
The Call for Papers topics for the 2023 MLA Annual Convention have been posted here: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session13763.html
Please consider submitting a paper proposal for one of the topics, and please circulate them to interested colleagues!
The deadline for submissions is…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023: The Ecology of the Community College Classroom in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoWe are currently looking for presenters for next year’s HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Forum. This is a guaranteed session set for the convention in San Francisco, on January 5-8, 2023. If you are interested, please see the detailed call description below and the shortened call posted on the MLA site below it.
CFP for MLA 2023: The…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee service in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoHello Forum Members!
I recently posted information regarding the election for the community colleges representative in the MLA Delegate Assembly. The HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee is also interested in hearing from forum members who might be interested in serving on the Executive Committee. If you are interested in the committee,…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Delegate Assembly Election Nominations for Community College Representative in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoHello Forum Members!
My name is Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, and I am the current Chair of the HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee. I hope all of you are well.
We are currently asking for nominees for the MLA Delegate Assembly election that will take place later this year. Folks who would like to represent the HEP Community Colleges forum in the…[Read more]
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Matthew Giancarlo started the topic Call for Executive Committee nominations from the TM Language Theory membership in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 4 years agoTo the TM Language Theory Group membership: we invite nominations—and self-nominations—to join the Executive Committee of the TM Language Theory group. Nominations would be for the coming year going forward, for the standard 5-year cycle of Executive Committee activity. This primarily involves determining, advertising, and selecting the topics and…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 4 years agoEl primer objetivo de esta edición es la reconstrucción crítica del texto, llevando hasta sus últimas consecuencias las hipótesis lingüísticas, porque un texto es, primero, la lengua en que fue escrito. Para esta reconstrucción crítica podremos recurrir a la ayuda del ordenador, pero lo que contará fundamentalmente serán los datos obtenidos…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Reflexiones sobre estratos y contacto: Al-Andalús, Afrorrománico, América, Palestina. in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe object of this research is divided among phenomena observed in al-Andalús, in North Africa, with the peculiarity that data from America and its languages can help to clarify certain points and, finally, in Palestine. There is therefore a historical journey and a synchronous investigation. This has given rise to reflections that relate…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (1969-2021): En busca de Oriente en Occidente. in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 4 years agoJuan Carlos buscó decididamente un modelo común mediterráneo que permitiera explicar que muchas de las características de los llamados tradicionalmente “arte visigodo” o “arte mozárabe” eran independientes de la instauración de la dinastía Omeya en al-Andalús y, de manera mucho más profunda, cómo esa importancia e influencia que se concede al art…[Read more]
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