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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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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Call for Abstracts on Global Englishes for MLA 2024 in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am writing to share a CFP for an upcoming MLA panel sponsored by the Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Global English. This forum has a guaranteed panel for the next MLA Convention, which will be January 4–7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15 and we will respond before April 1. <…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Call for Abstracts on Global Englishes for MLA 2024 in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am writing to share a CFP for an upcoming MLA panel sponsored by the Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Global English. This forum has a guaranteed panel for the next MLA Convention, which will be January 4–7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15 and we will respond before April 1. <…[Read more]
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johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society via email on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more] -
Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Nominations for the Executive Committee of LSL Global English in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
It’s that time of year, when MLA forums collect nominations (including self-nominations) for future Executive Committee members. If you would be interested in being on the LSL Global English forum’s Executive Committee from January 2024-January 2029, or if you know someone who could be a good fit, please email me with any…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Nominations for the Executive Committee of LSL Global English in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Colleagues,
It’s that time of year, when MLA forums collect nominations (including self-nominations) for future Executive Committee members. If you would be interested in being on the LSL Global English forum’s Executive Committee from January 2024-January 2029, or if you know someone who could be a good fit, please email me with any…[Read more]
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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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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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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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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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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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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic Low Countries History Seminar (IHR London), 2022/23 in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoLow Countries History Seminar, 2022/23 session
Convenors: Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary), Anne Goldgar (USC), Ben Kaplan (UCL), Ulrich Tiedau (UCL)
Meetings: Fridays at 5:30 pm. Attendance of either sort, on site or online, is free and open to all. You need, though, to register in advance (until 24 hours before the start of a seminar) via https://…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic New Open Access Book: Pieter Geyl and Britain: Encounters, Controversies, Impact in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoReaders of this list may be interested in the following Open Access publication:
Pieter Geyl and Britain: Encounters, Controversies, Impact
Edited by Stijn van Rossem and Ulrich Tiedau
Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most c…[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, 4 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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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWhat follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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