<html><body><div><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px">The American Dialect Society will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the <a href="https://www.lsadc.org/2025-linguistic_society_america_annual-meeting" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(2,57,176)">Linguistic Society of America</a> Thursday, January 9, through Sunday, January 12, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. </font></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="-webkit-user-drag: auto !important;"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px">Friday, August 2, 2024, is the deadline for poster and 20-minute paper proposals. </font></strong></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px"><strong style="-webkit-user-drag: auto !important;">Proposals</strong> should address topics related to any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. We also encourage topics related to lexicography, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic landscapes, language and society, and public language-awareness programs. </font></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px">Read the rest of the CFP here:</font></p></div><div><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://americandialect.org/2025-cfp/">https://americandialect.org/2025-cfp/</a><br></font></div><div><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px">Best wishes,</font></div><div><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px">Grant Barrett</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px">American Dialect Society</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px">Vice President of Communications and Technology</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://www.americandialect.org">http://www.americandialect.org</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif" style="font-size:14px"><a href="mailto:grantbarrett@gmail.com">grantbarrett@gmail.com</a></font></div></div></body></html>