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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 6 days, 21 hours 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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Matthew Giancarlo started the topic Language Theory Session CFP topics posted for MLA 2023: invitation to submit in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week agoMembers of the Language Theory group,
The Call for Papers topics for the 2023 MLA Annual Convention have been posted here: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session13763.html
Please consider submitting a paper proposal for one of the topics, and please circulate them to interested colleagues!
The deadline for submissions is…[Read more]
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Matthew Giancarlo started the topic Call for Executive Committee nominations from the TM Language Theory membership in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 1 year agoTo the TM Language Theory Group membership: we invite nominations—and self-nominations—to join the Executive Committee of the TM Language Theory group. Nominations would be for the coming year going forward, for the standard 5-year cycle of Executive Committee activity. This primarily involves determining, advertising, and selecting the topics and…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the gap between the abstract ideal of fairness and the bodily materiality of retribution. My aim is to suggest how some current cognitive science affords a helpful way of talking about the breaks between abstractions, or thoughts of fairness, and the judgments and punishments produced by actual legal systems. It is remarkably…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Cognitive Poetics in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn her introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, Lisa Zunshine, scholar in the field and its best historian, describes cognitive literary critics as working “not toward consilience with science but toward a richer engagement with a variety of theoretical paradigms in literary and cultural studies” (2015). Scholars from m…[Read more]
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Mary Hayes started the topic Language Theory Mentorship Program in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoDear all,
I am the current chair of the Language Theory’s executive committee. At the encouragement of MLA, I am putting together a mentorship program. We are all witnessing a difficult time in the academy, and a support system for burgeoning scholars is so crucial. You can sign on as a mentee or volunteer as a mentor.
Here’s how the first step…[Read more]
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Mary Hayes started the topic CFP: Constructed Languages Panel at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoConstructed Languages
This panel will include papers that study “conlangs” in their historical, auxiliary, and fantastic varieties. Submit 250-word abstracts by March 8, 2019 to Mary Hayes (hayes@olemiss.edu). Submission Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019
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James Elkins deposited Representing a Ruined Mind in Fiction; and a Note on How Google Ruins Reading: On Markson’s “Reader’s Block” in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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Donny Vigil started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: Language Theory Session…"Philology Old and New" in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Theory is accepting proposals for a panel session related to “Philology Old and New” for MLA 2018 in New York. We welcome submissions that examine what the renewed interest in philology means for literary, textual, and linguistic studies. Please send a 300-word abstract by March 24 to Donny Vigil (vigi7700@stthomas.edu).
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Donny Vigil started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: Language Theory Session…"The Language of Silence" in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Theory is accepting proposals for a panel session related to “The Language of Silence” for MLA 2018 in New York. We welcome submissions on how recent political rhetoric regarding immigration leads to insecurity in educational settings including changes in language, discourse, pedagogy and programs. Please send a 300-word abs…[Read more]
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Mary Wildner-Bassett deposited Applying Theories in Language Programs in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoSelected Topics in Applied Linguistics: How to Choose a Theory. I offer a critical exploration of some of the conditions involved in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), as well as of the paradoxical approaches in the theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives of ISLA.
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Hsiang-Hua Melanie Chang deposited Interpretation of Bare and Demonstrative Noun Phrases in the Acquisition of Mandarin in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMandarin nominals may appear bare or non-bare in various positions with different interpretations. Questions arise as to how Mandarin-speaking children interpret bare nominals, given that bare nominals can have various interpretations. On the other hand, how do they interpret non-bare nominals, such as demonstrative nominals? This experimental…[Read more]
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Laraine R. Fergenson deposited Final Report of the MLA Committee on Diversity and Tolerance in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance was formed in response to a motion passed by the Delegate Assembly in 1999 calling for the reconstitution of what had been the Task Force against Campus Bigotry. The new committee was to be charged with “working to establish a climate in which all students, faculty, and other college employees, no m…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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Robert Victor Wess deposited A McKeonist Understanding of Kenneth Burke’s Rhetorical Realism in Particular and Constructivism in General in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReaders of KB Journal likely know Richard McKeon mainly through his essays on rhetoric and his relationship to Kenneth Burke. But McKeon was first and foremost a philosopher who came to rhetoric in mid-career, so that his work is a philosophical path to and defense of rhetoric. This path, moreover, precisely because of its philosophical depth,…[Read more]
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Thomas F. Shannon started the topic New Work in Language Theory in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory solicits papers focussing on aspects of linguistics that contribute to trends in language theory. Paper proposals of 250-300 words by 23 March 2015 to Thomas F. Shannon (tshannon@berkeley.edu).
Best regards,
TFS (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Language Theory)
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Thomas F. Shannon started the topic MLA 2016 Call for Papers: Language Theory and Description in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory seeks presentations exploring interdigitations of language theory and linguistic description. Please submit paper proposals of 250-300 words by 24 March 2015 to Thomas F. Shannon (tshannon@berkeley.edu).
Best regards,
TFS (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Language Theory)
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic Abstract, MLA 2015, Recent Work in Narrative & Discourse, Div. of Lang. Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago246. Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 18 VCC East: Floor Plans
Program arranged by the Division on Language Theory
Updated: December 30, 2014
1. “Lula versus Obama and the 2016 Olympic Bid: A Cognitive Framework for Discourse Analysis,”
Ricardo Gualda, Universidade Federal da Bahia
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic Abstracts, MLA 2015, Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, Div. of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoStudies in Cognitive Linguistics
Thursday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 14 VCC East: Floor Plans
Program arranged by the Division on Language Theory
1. “Cognition in Interaction: Substantiating Context in Language Use and Grammaticalization”
Anneliese Kuhle, Freie Universität Berlin
AbstractUsage-based approaches to the study of language mai…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2015, Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse, Division of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please join us for the following Division of Language Theory session at the 2015 Convention. Abstracts will be posted in the fall.
Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse
Temporal Relations in Narrative Discourse: Narrator’s Perspective through Tense and Aspect
Amruta Chandekar, University Of Washington
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