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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 8 months, 3 weeks 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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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 1 year, 11 months 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 1 year, 11 months 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 1 year, 11 months 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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Inés Vañó García started the topic CfP Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years agoCfP Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity
https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/2689623/notice-21-11-18-change-over-time-in-the-iberian-worlds
The mpilhlt’s Glocalising Normativities project aims to construct a global history of normative production by studying the interaction of local processes of the cultural t…[Read more]
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Laura Francis started the topic Forum Election Introduction in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years agoHello everyone!
You might see me on your ballots for the forum’s executive committee in the MLA elections this month, so I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself to the group since I haven’t had the chance to meet many of you yet.
My name is Laura Francis, and I’m a PhD candidate at Cornell University focusing on translation stu…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic Voices from the Past in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years agoVoices from the Past
19 – 20 November 2021, Oxford, UK
The symposium will take place both in person and over Zoom. Here are the symposium website and booking link. Please register using the booking link to join us and obtain a Zoom link.
Voices from the Past brings together specialists working broadly on how people spoke in the past – and wh…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic SHEL-12 – Historical Sociolinguistics of English in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoSecond circular: CFP Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-12, 2022)
Please join us in Seattle for the twelfth meeting of SHEL on May 19-21, 2022. SHEL has been meeting biennially for two decades; it is the preeminent gathering in North America that examines the English language and its history. The conference is…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Afrorrománico, iberorrománico y orígenes del español in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoEl área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more] -
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Vascuences, vascos y euskera. Reflexiones sobre un proceso. in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoA concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El léxico latino en bereber en el marco del estudio de los romances africanos y el continuo lingüístico andalusí in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoLos contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA CFP : “Spanish in the US: Globalization, Glocalization and New Discourses” in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe session seeks papers that examine new discourses, practices, and identities, in US Latino and Hispanic communities in response to social pressures from above and outside (globalization) and social pressures from below and inside (glocalization). In particular, the session hopes to address questions pertaining to space, place, dominance,…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Extended deadline—please submit your abstracts by March 30th in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:
Panel 1:
“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperdine.…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Seeking interested candidates to run for the language change forum in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoHi colleagues,
The Language Change forum is currently looking for members who would be willing to be nominated as an alternate for the upcoming executive committee member election. If you are interested, please let me know by Wednesday, February 5th.
For more information about the MLA’s executive committee forums, please visit the following link…[Read more]
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Laura Aull replied to the topic Session topic suggestions for MLA 2021 in Toronto in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoEmbracing Linguistic Diversity
Times of mass migration and technological revolution are times of language change. For communities experiencing such change, language can be a site of exploration: a site for celebrating linguistic diversity and natural curiosity about language. Alternatively, language can be a site of discrimination: a site for…[Read more]
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Taryn Hakala started the topic Session topic suggestions for MLA 2021 in Toronto in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Language Change forum’s executive committee would like to solicit ideas from its membership for potential session topics for the 2021 convention in Toronto. Topics related to the 2021 presidential theme, “Persistence,” are welcome but not required. If you would like to contribute your ideas, please respond to this post no later than Friday, January 24.
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Taryn Hakala started the topic CANCELED: Session 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoUnfortunately, two of our roundtable speakers were unable to attend the MLA convention this year, so we have canceled our Thursday afternoon session: 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions. Apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you at our Saturday afternoon session: 545 – Being Human, Technology, and New Media.
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Taryn Hakala started the topic EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP MLA 2020 / Being Human, Technology, and New Media in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED: FRIDAY, MARCH 29
CFP: Being Human, Technology, and New Media
The Language Change Forum seeks papers that address aspects of language change, acquisition, or linguistic transactions related to the MLA 2020 presidential theme (Being Human), technology, and new media.
300-word abstracts to Taryn Hakala (taryn.hakala@gmail.com)…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months 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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