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Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, TrackHow do we study the expansion, contraction, and development of material texts and corpora? Papers sought that explore erasure, cancellation, deletion, supplementation, and textual change. 350-word proposals cvs by 10 March 2018; Eleanor F. Shevlin (eshevlin@wcupa.edu)…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: nominations and self-nominations in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Language Change Forum is seeking to fill one position on its Executive Committee. The position will be for the duration of 5 years. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please send your nominations (including self-nomination) to Brian Mann, D…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years agoDocument annotation is almost as old as writing. The designers of the World Wide Web envisioned a system that would allow people to publicly annotate any document. The advent of cloud computing has finally made this feasible: distributed annotation systems like Hypothes.is allow users to save annotations privately, or share them with the public.…[Read more]
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Kate Ozment deposited Expanding Access: Feminist Scholarship and the Women in Book History Bibliography in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoInspired by my work on the Women in Book History Bibliography, this presentation takes a different angle on discussions of women’s texts in digital archives. The WBHB collects secondary sources on women’s writing and labor over a broad range of languages, subjects, geographic locations, and time periods. Because we collect secondary sources, we…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[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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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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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018 Language Change Panel: "Global (Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago623: Language Change: Global (Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity
Saturday, January 06, 201803:30 PM – 04:45 PM
Hilton – Nassau EastPresider
Roshawnda Derrick
Pepperdine UPromoting Plurilingual Approaches to Integration
Ines Bruenner, Oberlin CLanguage Change: The Creation of the Variety Lunfardo as Linguistic Reaction to…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA Language Change Panel 2018: Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago145: Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism
Thursday, January 04, 2018
05:15 PM – 06:30 PM
Hilton – Concourse G
Presider
D. Brian Mann
U of North GeorgiaFrom Linguistic Self-Confidence to Linguistic Insecurity: The Discursive Construction of Identities of Resistance
Sibusiwe Dube, Penn State U, University…[Read more] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
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 Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Language Change 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.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Germanic Philology and 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 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 Global English on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Global English 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.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums
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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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