[EDLING:736] CFP: Language in the Academy

[Francis M. Hult]

CALL FOR PAPERS: 30 April 2005 deadline

MMLA Milwaukee, 10-13 November 2005

Language in the Academy

This session will address, in broad terms, questions of language in the
contemporary academy. Papers might deal with issues of inclusivity and
exclusivity, the politics of obscurity and clarity (with reference to the
notion of clarity as a "bourgeois form of terrorism" as well as to the
supposed death of theory), language and the "new belletrism,"
prescriptivism and descriptivism, as well as the implications of the
digitization of much scholarly writing for the homogenization of academic
discourse in the new century.

Information about the conference is online at http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/ .

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Thomas Chase, University of Regina, Faculty of Arts, CL426, University of
Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2,
thomas.chase at uregina.ca