MLA Commons | LSL Language Change | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/ Activity feed for the group, LSL Language Change. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:58:22 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6739c2ab584c38cb231e23037f009b92 Laura Francis started the topic Call for Abstracts: MLA 2027 Panels for the LSL Language Change Forum in the forum LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-mla-2027-panels-for-the-lsl-language-change-forum/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:14:57 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles:

Empowering Language Change

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how linguistic changes enable—and emerge from—emancipatory practices across spoken, written, digital, pedagogical, and/or rel…[Read more]

]]> 0 0749dfc80a6f358679e9c008e39740c6 Laura Francis started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations Invited for Delegate and Executive Committee in the forum LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-invited-for-delegate-and-executive-committee/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:09:00 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The executive committee for LSL Language Change invites nominations and self-nominations for the following forum positions:

– Two delegates positions, responsible for voting in the MLA delegate assembly

– Two executive committee positions, one for 2027-2030 and another for 2027-2032, responsible for organizing the forum’s two g…[Read more]

]]> 0 8be7930d382da7ce211f5d7384176f6e Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-5/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:57:42 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!

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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Studen…[Read more]

]]> 0 3918a3d272e559d916907e66de3bab39 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the forum LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-13/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:41:28 -0500 (Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases, and ethical implications. Send 30…[Read more]

]]> 0 33888d84e72b2b8d428fe770b1d4d82a Laura Francis started the topic CFP for MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2026/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:24:43 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is now seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11! Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Family Resemblances in Language Contact and Change

How do languages evolve…[Read more]

]]> 0 90ce70c01cc197f37d4ad4f754fbf2f5 Laura Francis started the topic Call for Abstracts: MLA 2025 Panels for the LSL Language Change Forum in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-mla-2025-panels-for-the-lsl-language-change-forum/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:42:10 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2025 MLA Annual Conference.

The (In)visibility of Minoritized Speakers: This panel invites studies that document changes in the (in)visibility of minoritized speakers. Topics may include but are not limited to issues of gender, sexuality, race,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba46b51ffab8b7f6c19bbb64a16a9556 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870992/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:06:17 -0500 During the long time of its documentation, Latin could not remain unchanged, so there had to be a cultured, writ-ten variant of the language and popular variants, which evolved into dialectal forms, Afro-Latin-Romance variants. As far as the African part is concerned, the novelty of this study, especially for Romanists and Arabists, is to convey…[Read more]

]]> 0 ece40be29e549b8e4f8890e36433b675 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870987/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:02:30 -0500 El objetivo principal de este libro es recoger y transmitir reflexiones y resultados de una investigación que ha evolucionado en paralelo a la vida profesional de su autor. Arranca de la pregunta sobre cómo era la situación lingüística de la Península Ibérica tras la llegada de los sarracenos, en qué ambientes se iniciaron las lenguas romance…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ddf3ec1c4348ad14add492c10822674 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2024, Language and the City: An Ecolinguistic View of Philadelphia Spanish. in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla-2024-language-and-the-city-an-ecolinguistic-view-of-philadelphia-spanish/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:22:58 -0400 MLA 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]

]]> 0 f78c0b5c4b0a482f16917ff19c732a96 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766331/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:57:16 -0500 El 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]

]]> 0 e1fd93872651e8706a75322be97cb476 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Reflexiones sobre estratos y contacto: Al-Andalús, Afrorrománico, América, Palestina. in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766327/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:54:16 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 400b6c9404d2814dc4f25d30c7709f0b Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (1969-2021): En busca de Oriente en Occidente. in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766323/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:51:13 -0500 Juan 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]

]]> 0 80c78afe2510e788eb01a109ed997974 Inés Vañó García started the topic CfP Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/cfp-change-over-time-in-the-iberian-worlds-stabilising-regimes-of-normativity/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:10:18 -0500 CfP 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]

]]> 0 42fec90b452ce8e7a7e0b8ae5801aea5 Laura Francis started the topic Forum Election Introduction in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/forum-election-introduction/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:41:47 -0500 Hello 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]

]]> 0 648b253ee3ba0e4f16cfd3b29f12d96c Inés Vañó García started the topic Voices from the Past in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/voices-from-the-past/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:15:58 -0500 Voices 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]

]]> 0 9d0a7285af206f80713514f36d31cba7 Inés Vañó García started the topic SHEL-12 – Historical Sociolinguistics of English in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/shel-12-historical-sociolinguistics-of-english/ Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:47:41 -0400 Second circular: CFP Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-12, 2022)

SHEL-12 website

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]

]]> 0 5990563b38e505c4ade2ea11901f9cf5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Afrorrománico, iberorrománico y orígenes del español in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727100/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:26:28 -0500 El 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]

]]> 0 6cf1ff8a66adeb9926798f0facac7645 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Vascuences, vascos y euskera. Reflexiones sobre un proceso. in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726987/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:40:22 -0500 A 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]

]]> 0 c317bb01d8234bca8cd2f0bf2c0fc6ac 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726982/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:35:39 -0500 Los 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]

]]> 0 5b91fe22745bfa961a9538cf2109417c Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA CFP : “Spanish in the US: Globalization, Glocalization and New Discourses” in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/nemla-cfp-spanish-in-the-us-globalization-glocalization-and-new-discourses/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:57:13 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 ec7d7f5d0b308f48347208cec08b8708 Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/women-language-cfp-3/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:16:20 -0400 Call 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]

]]> 0 94c0357ac1ec0d785402f0425e919b19 Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Extended deadline---please submit your abstracts by March 30th in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/extended-deadline-please-submit-your-abstracts-by-march-30th/ Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:21:47 -0400 Please 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]

]]> 0 8d7cf8a7c9df640bdb7b677f1ddc1a1d Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Seeking interested candidates to run for the language change forum in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/seeking-interested-candidates-to-run-for-the-language-change-forum/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:56:00 -0500 Hi 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]

]]> 0 792cc66208e2ee18274ceab33515753f Laura Aull replied to the topic Session topic suggestions for MLA 2021 in Toronto in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/session-topic-suggestions-for-mla-2021-in-toronto/#post-1023122 Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:22:06 -0500 Embracing 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]

]]> 0 b66ce4aa6bc2e498adb4e296a16caedf Taryn Hakala started the topic Session topic suggestions for MLA 2021 in Toronto in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/session-topic-suggestions-for-mla-2021-in-toronto/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:35:22 -0500 The 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.

]]> 0 5112fba750c79c425e5f5306b3120390 Taryn Hakala started the topic CANCELED: Session 93 - Language Change Forum: New Directions in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/canceled-session-93-language-change-forum-new-directions/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:20:06 -0500 Unfortunately, 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.

]]> 0 7c9acabebd3d2a1c94e0e68a3e32ee6f Taryn Hakala started the topic EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP MLA 2020 / Being Human, Technology, and New Media in the discussion LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/extended-deadline-cfp-mla-2020-being-human-technology-and-new-media/ Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:35:31 -0400 DEADLINE 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]

]]> 0 99702e19ffd7b0b345572c7548be5613 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-40/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:38:07 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 9adc000c896dba4ce90efb77ca8889d9 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/nemla-2019cfp-local-and-global-spanishes-identity-and-space-in-us-cities/ Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:52:11 -0400 In 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]

]]> 0 5083db6cef73d4d4dac799e8077ea39e Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: CFP deadline extended, March 15 in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/language-change-forum-cfp-deadline-extended-march-15/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:59:19 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 143f99cf03bcb78631356c799026dd6e Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum, CFP 2019: deadline today in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/language-change-forum-cfp-2019-deadline-today/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:00:26 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 bd4d27a2fd0eb2fb1809ac54f9333707 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: 2019 CFP in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/language-change-forum-2019-cfp/ Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:52:19 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 dd499b733f2a8dd1cd36fbebbc2d143f Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: nominations and self-nominations in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/language-change-forum-nominations-and-self-nominations/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:40:02 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 12e49df9228fdab827ef7f264dacd0c0 Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595546/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:50:36 -0500 Document 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]

]]> 0 d5fd2af755298dddb5dc86236c9e13fc Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018 Language Change Panel: "Global (Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla-2018-language-change-panel-global-immigration-and-linguistic-insecurity/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:23:36 -0500 623: Language Change: Global (Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity
Saturday, January 06, 2018

03:30 PM – 04:45 PM
Hilton – Nassau East

Presider
Roshawnda Derrick
Pepperdine U

Promoting Plurilingual Approaches to Integration
Ines Bruenner, Oberlin C

Language Change: The Creation of the Variety Lunfardo as Linguistic Reaction to…[Read more]

]]> 0 be08848c70c844e89b5a4c859bb036ef Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA Language Change Panel 2018: Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla-language-change-panel-2018-insecurity-in-the-classroom-programs-pedagogy/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:15:07 -0500 145: 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 Georgia

From Linguistic Self-Confidence to Linguistic Insecurity: The Discursive Construction of Identities of Resistance
Sibusiwe Dube, Penn State U, University…[Read more]

]]> 0 23935146ca5a8c1cba821ad96d05a13b Robert Troyer posted an update in the group LSL Language Change: Dear Members of the MLA Language Change Forum, If you will […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588261/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:32:49 -0500 Dear 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]

]]> 0 7ea8eedfbd5f217c6fea176159ef2177 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic 49th NeMLA Annual Convention: CFP in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/49th-nemla-annual-convention-cfp/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:43:33 -0400

]]> 0 4faac23341c44edd472d3ae472b33758 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic CFP: "Intersecting Spaces, Mobility, and Language in the ‘Uncommon Community’" in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/cfp-intersecting-spaces-mobility-and-language-in-the-uncommon-community/ Tue, 30 May 2017 17:20:35 -0400 April 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]

]]> 0 682f422c812cd085d2a2a2ef508ad152 Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565835/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:13:02 -0400 Many 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
(Kroch 198…[Read more]

]]> 0 04bad7baa3a83fe90000fb2ed99b7c33 Angela Helmer started the topic MLA 2018 Call for Proposals LSL General Linguistics in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla-2018-call-for-proposals-lsl-general-linguistics/ Sun, 12 Mar 2017 03:55:22 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 947eb322c8d91766d0d4e4af6dd34b50 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA, 2018: Two CFPs in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla-2018-two-cfps/ Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:14:10 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 2489a3de85536baec5450acf74b65ba8 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA2018 CFP: Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla2018-cfp-insecurity-in-the-classroom-programs-pedagogy-and-peripateticism/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:10:18 -0500 “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]

]]> 0 5dc938c5b34bbdb3cfce5ddef571ace5 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557542/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:12:12 -0500 Panel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies

]]> 0 58dd4c8caaeaa47d80192e2962af8614 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-language-change-global-im-gration-and-linguistic-insecurity/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:21:27 -0500 Dear 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]

]]> 0 a79c8d5524bda95d3ef971e38a2a21e7 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Seeking Nominations for the "Language Change" Forum in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-language-change-forum/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:55:15 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 e1897c7183842d46ffaeee4473300cd2 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Two 'Language Change' panels at MLA (Thursday and Saturday) in Philadelphia in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/two-language-change-panels-at-mla-thursday-and-saturday-in-philadelphia/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:44:04 -0500 Thursday, 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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]]> 0 5a09168106c012d7d563b0e2ef0683cd Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/cfp-language-attrition-and-loss-in-film-literature-and-popular-culture/#post-11321 Sat, 28 May 2016 23:51:03 -0400 Thanks! Interesting.

]]> 0 3f0e2a3827e90341cd2ed91a46325368 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/cfp-language-attrition-and-loss-in-film-literature-and-popular-culture/#post-11320 Sat, 28 May 2016 17:32:25 -0400 Yes, I was notified yesterday.

]]> 0 18c6400c3cf8bd0984b9d776a080775e Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/cfp-language-attrition-and-loss-in-film-literature-and-popular-culture/#post-11319 Sat, 28 May 2016 15:07:47 -0400 Great!  Have they notified you that your session proposal has been accepted?  I have not yet gotten any notification about mine.

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