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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Wed 05 Mar 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">MLA 2015 CFP:New Approaches to Vernacular Languages in the US</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: 0</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px">5 Mar 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Terrence Potter <<a href="mailto:tmp28@georgetown.edu" target="_blank">tmp28@georgetown.edu</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">MLA 2015 CFP:New Approaches to Vernacular Languages in the US</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">MLA 2015 Call: New Approaches to Vernacular Languages in the US</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">The General Linguistics Discussion Group of the MLA announces a call for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">papers for the MLA 2015 Convention in Vancouver, BC. This panel seeks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">abstracts of 250 words addressing new approaches to the contemporary or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">historical presence of vernacular languages that are spoken and/or written</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">in the US.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">For this panel vernacular languages may include any of those languages</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">spoken or written now or in the past in any of the communities of speakers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">in the United States, e.g. Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish, Indigenous or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Native American languages, African American Vernacular English, Cajun</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">French, Texas German, US Arabic, etc.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Presenters must be members of the MLA. The General Linguistics Discussion</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Group subscribes to the policies and guidelines of the MLA. For additional</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">information please visit: </span><a href="http://www.mla.org/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px" target="_blank">www.MLA.org</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Please provide your abstract not later than 15 March 2014 by e-mail to the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">following e-mail address:  </span><a href="mailto:tmp28@georgetown.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px" target="_blank">tmp28@georgetown.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

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