MLA Commons | LSL Linguistics and Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/ Activity feed for the group, LSL Linguistics and Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ce6cb19cda7028716dd9ddca95f0ff87 Domna C. Stanton replied to the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/#post-1040637 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:57:41 -0500 Thanks so much for writing But I am not able To attend the conventionGood luck at the conventionBest ds

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]]> 0 198c11ce77d0fac244c3b6b94d78d95a Randall Gess started the topic 2026 LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/2026-lsl-forum-on-romance-linguistics/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:54:59 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> 0 fce5b7c06e2e4c0676bc1b64a2fab4a1 Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-6/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:07:38 -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 6d562ab73002b6b5c3b686bf474fbdf7 Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-6/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:17:32 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is 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:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 0cbf8a76aa8752e25099af14ea0c572e Mary Hayes started the topic MLA 2026 panels; Linguistics and Literature forum in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2026-panels-linguistics-and-literature-forum/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:12:12 -0500 The Linguistics and Literature forum (D036) is sponsoring two panels at MLA 2026.
Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
MDM encompasses various genres of post-factual literature­ – deepfakes, inauthentic soundbytes, recontextualized signs – rife in 21st-century public truth claims. What work does MDM pose for linguists and literary scho…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ae82909a48f8ff04b3cca46f1b5e6bd Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-3/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:24:03 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 233001d0475794a431a62df7560cd17c Anne Furlong deposited LSL Linguistics and Literature (D036) Abstracts for the 2025 MLA Convention, New Orleans in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1881935/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:05:04 -0400 The LSL Forum is hosting two panels (both in person) at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans: Panel I: Visibility, Language, Style: Authorship as Resistance, and Panel II: Translation, visibility, and style: accommodating audiences. I am uploading the abstracts for those planning their visit to the Convention.

]]> 0 fac7fdb9aab2fa748a50f8a475561965 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870999/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:10:09 -0500 Se recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]

]]> 0 6114a370fb6889078cd766deab7fa550 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870993/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:06:39 -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 8561b3e27cde56c6824e616483dc7d77 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870988/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:02:53 -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 949def254e6a7436693fb8db7dafd87c Anne Furlong started the topic Consider joining the Executive Committee of LSL! in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/consider-joining-the-executive-committee-of-lsl/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 02:29:00 -0500 Greetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!

Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one. Following the annual MLA Convention, we appoint a new EC member, submitting a short list of names to the MLA by 28 January. The five-year term of service starts in January of 2024,…[Read more]

]]> 0 957fe518fd442433abdda761f8d8a198 Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1795019/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 03:49:58 -0400 Contrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]

]]> 0 04d62adcb92daffabd683c86538ba7a5 Rhona Trauvitch started the topic Join the Executive Committee of LSL Linguistics and Literature in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/join-the-executive-committee-of-lsl-linguistics-and-literature/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:29:36 -0500 Greetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!

 

Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one.  The time has come (the Walrus said) for us to appoint a new EC member who would begin their service in January 2023. Our appointment form is due in one week, and we seek…[Read more]

]]> 0 dadfab9a5a2bb00c4367e26fc61d9af0 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766337/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:02:43 -0500 Como homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.

]]> 0 d81a4064e294a85916c71a876455db80 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766332/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:57:39 -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 0bbbf0d73853454dd4484aa5c16f9664 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Afrorrománico, iberorrománico y orígenes del español in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727101/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:26:56 -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 8b9783059f396247edf0b665a6c58668 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Vascuences, vascos y euskera. Reflexiones sobre un proceso. in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726988/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:40:50 -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 26e7599cdc73709741fad2f38ef2aea7 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 Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726983/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:36:07 -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 f140fe5af598bf179ab90862b1c76f63 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726978/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:31:20 -0500 This work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9ea9f9a94e4f65d2fa76c7c02081b41 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2021-forum-delegate-election-38/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:38:49 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 f39650261610b540537b7e94e0c3ff76 Ellen Spolsky deposited Cognitive Poetics in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1695720/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:25:22 -0400 In 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]

]]> 0 85ffbe029be19fdab79e3b97ca4faaff Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690444/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:52:59 -0400 Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of ​​a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.

]]> 0 705d40f468ea6e07b23b354d0049cca6 Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669815/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:28:54 -0500 The New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ef99419719b96babb63b6a8745de477 Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/minutes-from-committee-meeting-in-chicago/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:07:20 -0500 Dear all,

With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.

Two key things are:

  • nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
  • Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…

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]]> 0 29686ce2c9db1164a273e1ff78bf9931 Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/minutes-from-committee-meeting-in-chicago/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:07:20 -0500 Dear all,

With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.

Two key things are:

  • nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
  • Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…

[Read more]

]]> 0 9964be5c2f65bfae8efb21264a558fc2 Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/linguistics-and-literature-in-chicago/#post-1019362 Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:08:00 -0500 Thanks to all of you who came to Lizzie McNeill’s on Friday. It was a lovely evening and we will make sure we do it again.

I’ll be in touch soon (via all of the relevant fora) with other thoughts about how those of us with interests in language, linguistics and lang-lit can keep in touch and work together in future.

Best wishes,

Billy

 

]]> 0 4ab7cc8089c3ea79c818ec09e97da3c9 Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/linguistics-and-literature-in-chicago/#post-1019333 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:29:24 -0500 Hi everybody,

Looking forward to seeing some of you in Lizzie McNeill’s at 7.30.

I thought it worth letting you know that it’s really close to the Sheraton where the presidential address is from 6.45 to 7.30, so quite possible to go to both and to get from one to the other very quickly.

Best wishes,

Billy

 

]]> 0 8b7594ead59411a44c89cd94a81c36be Billy Clark started the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/linguistics-and-literature-in-chicago/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:03:26 -0500 Dear all,

Happy new year from London!  I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Chicago!

Here is some info on our sessions and a new idea we have this year for an informal get-together for members of all forums/fora with an interest in language, linguistics or ‘lang-lit’ on Friday evening.

Theater as Communication and Where Do The Voices Com…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ab78125dd2ca8403fb864ebb69a2814 Billy Clark started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-women-and-language-5/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:53:32 -0500 Dear all,

We are looking forward to seeing (some of) you in Chicago.

Before emailing you about the convention, here is a call for papers which I meant to pass on earlier in the year.

Best wishes,

Billy

. . .

 

Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d52c4c59421f87b5ae6a00ed0859ada1 Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595547/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:51:40 -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 c7637aed95227235ca5c084c8b4648f6 Robert Troyer posted an update in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature: Dear Members of the Linguistics and Literature Forum, If […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588241/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:48:12 -0500 Dear Members of the Linguistics and Literature 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…[Read more]

]]> 0 647326a1cf18a4b86895ef027bf4d056 Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565836/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:14:04 -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 d3b7f65bd60c8c8c5dfeb7fb175e7514 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion Linguistic Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-language-change-global-im-gration-and-linguistic-insecurity-9/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:24:20 -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 e1d8521b04e5514ef617e8d919bcc6d3 Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Reading and Responding to Literary Texts in the discussion Linguistic Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2018-reading-and-responding-to-literary-texts/ Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:54:02 -0500 We invite explorations of pedagogical practices addressing specific language structures in the context of a literary text, thus, uniting literature and English language studies.

Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu

]]> 0 491386d908193fbcb157d1bf27772a45 Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Literary and Non-literary Texts in the discussion Linguistic Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2018-literary-and-non-literary-texts/ Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:52:21 -0500 We invite abstracts that approach texts from a linguistic perspective in order to explore potential commonalities and differences between literary and non-literary language.

Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu

]]> 0 5050203a305a8119e7aa3332695fd900 Lijing Peng deposited Language Ideologies in Gao Xingjian’s Literature: a Linguistic Anthropological Study of Chinese Diaspora Literature in Europe in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/551602/ Mon, 03 Oct 2016 01:07:02 -0400 Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s attenuation of language, the French Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian has conducted various language experiments in his literary creations in the past two decades. Gao’s literary works, as Diaspora literature, have received extensive attention from European readers due to their Western modernist literary style, the aut…[Read more]

]]> 0 de061c9fe9fac28da43f95e0172cf4eb Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549874/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:25:16 -0400 In 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]

]]> 0 a745546246ca929d73a9eb61dfc709b2 Fabiana E. Martínez deposited 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549192/ Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:17:53 -0400 Peter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.

12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d149efda84805e9c66ce887ba9e136a Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539155/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:21:43 -0500 Read 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bd2bbe6a1247e80eec86f9341094442 Davide Castiglione deposited A Parsing-Proof Whole: Susan Howe’s Experimental Syntax and Its Processing Implications in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/537022/ Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:24:47 -0500 It has long been acknowledged that syntactic violations in poetry are central to the difficulty of a poetic text (e.g. Fowler 1971, Fois-Kaschel 2002, Burke 2007, Thoms 2008). However, for all its merits, most of the work carried out so far tends either to be more concerned with linguistic theory than with literary effects (i.e. the generativist…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d178e62c4bf22dafbe0b2d5449659a9 Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2017) Postcolonial Stylistics in the discussion Linguistic Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-postcolonial-stylistics/ Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:21:24 -0500 We invite abstracts that explore representations of linguistic varieties and variation in postcolonial literature from the perspective of literary linguistics. 300-word abstract by 27 Feb 2016; Robert Troyer (troyerr@mail.wou.edu).

]]> 0 8d1ecfa4c9ca543903ee9b5c55bfec24 Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2017) Syntax and Poetry in the discussion Linguistic Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/linguistics-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-syntax-and-poetry/ Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:20:27 -0500 Following the successful session on syntax and poetry in 2016, we invite abstracts on how poets employ and challenge the conventions of syntax for poetic effect. 300-word abstract by 27 Feb 2016; Robert Troyer (troyerr@mail.wou.edu).

]]> 0 0bb2aa10ead09f5bcc70330d43da095f Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/532343/ Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:03:26 -0400 A semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

]]> 0 738213ed2abfaed2f92f1ffceb92ac2d Steven G. Kellman deposited "Alien autographs: how translators make their marks" in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531503/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:29:08 -0400 Like other forms of treachery, translation can be either concealed or exposed. Though most literary translators work in the dark and some embrace invisibility as an ideal, all translations can be situated along the continuum of illusionist-anti-illusionist or domesticating-foreignizing. A variety of paratexts lay bare the devices of translation.…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b8786c17d7bfe39140f81be0754159f Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group LSL Linguistics and Literature: Dear Colleagues, Joyce Meier of Michigan State University […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/271002/ Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:28:53 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.

As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]

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