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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2019,CFP: Local and Global: ‘Spanish(es),’ Identity and Space in US Cities in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoIn a society where urban life recreates otherness, dissolves geographical and social borders, creates transnational spaces and crafts new identities, how do Latinos and Hispanic immigrants of various Latin American regions living in cities in the US (re)build the local and global from inter- and cross-cultural perspectives: language, history,…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: CFP deadline extended, March 15 in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week agoThe Forum on Language Change extended its CFP for the 2019 MLA in Chicago to March 15. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity performance. 300-…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum, CFP 2019: deadline today in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2019 MLA in Chicago. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity per…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: 2019 CFP in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2019 MLA in Chicago. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity per…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: nominations and self-nominations in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months 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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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 11 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 3 weeks 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
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year 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
7:15–8:30 p…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic 49th NeMLA Annual Convention: CFP in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic CFP: "Intersecting Spaces, Mobility, and Language in the ‘Uncommon Community’" in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoApril 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html
<p style=”margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;”><span style=”color: #333333;”>Call for Papers:</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;”><span style=”color: #333333;”>The notion of “community” sometimes centers unquestioningly on whatever it is shared by a…[Read more] -
Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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Angela Helmer started the topic MLA 2018 Call for Proposals LSL General Linguistics in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThe Executive Committee, LSL General Linguistics, is seeking for proposals for the following sessions:
a) Linguistics and Social Media. This guaranteed session seeks papers that examine different modes, applications, and venues of social media (textual, visual, audiovisual, interactive) from a linguistic perspective. Email 250-word abstract by…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA, 2018: Two CFPs in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2018 MLA in New York City. See details below for each session.
“Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”
The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals that explore “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA2018 CFP: Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago“Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism”
The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals that explore “Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism” for the 2018 MLA in New York City. We are especially interested in those that examine Language Change in the context ofhow recent politi…[Read more]
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Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoPanel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Seeking Nominations for the "Language Change" Forum in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months 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 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, g…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Two 'Language Change' panels at MLA (Thursday and Saturday) in Philadelphia in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThursday, 5 January
The Changing Boundaries of Language Instruction
1:45–3:00 p.m., 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change
Presiding: D. Brian Mann, Univ. of North Georgia
“The Lingering Problem of the Native Speaker in Foreign Language Education,” Margaret Keneman, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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