[EDLING:422] CFP: Language Variation and Change in the US

Francis M. Hult fmhult at DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU
Mon Dec 6 12:24:04 UTC 2004


Call for Papers: Language Variation and Change in the United States

The American Dialect Society, Midwest Region, With the Midwest Modern
Language Association; 10-13 November 2005; At The Pfister, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin

Papers dealing with varieties of English and other languages spoken in
the United States will be considered. Presentations may be based in
traditional dialectology or in other areas of language variation and
change, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics,
anthropological linguistics, folk linguistics, language and
gender/sexuality, language attitudes, linguistics in the schools,
critical discourse analysis, or narratology.

April 15, 2005 is the deadline for 300-word abstracts. Email
submissions only.

Send abstracts to:
Kathryn Remlinger
American Dialect Society, Midwest Secretary
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
1-616-331-3122

Membership to ADS is recommended. Membership is $50 and includes
year's subscription to the society's journal, American Speech, and
copy of the Publication of the American Dialect Society (PADS, an
annual hardbound supplement). Membership information is available at
www.americandialect.org.

Membership to MMLA is required. Membership is $35 for full and
associate professors, $30 for assistant professors and schoolteachers,
$20 for adjunct and part-time faculty, and $15 for students, retired,
and unemployed. Information on membership is available at the website
below or by writing to MMLA, 302 English-Philosophy Bldg, U of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408, tel: 1-319-335-0331.

For more information about ADS at MMLA, see the MMLA website,
www.uiowa.edu/~mmla, go to Call for Papers, scroll down to
Associated Organizations, then to American Dialect Society.

Kathryn Remlinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English: Linguistics
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49456 USA
tel: 1-616-331-3122
fax: 1-616-331-3430
remlingk at gvsu.edu



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