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Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:13 PM<br>Subject: VAR-L Digest - 5 Mar 2012 to 6 Mar 2012 (#2012-43)<br>To: <a href="mailto:VAR-L@jiscmail.ac.uk">VAR-L@jiscmail.ac.uk</a><br><br><br>There are 2 messages totaling 498 lines in this issue.<br>
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Topics of the day:<br>
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1. The Life of Slang (on BBC Today programme)<br>
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:39:16 +0000<br>
From: Dave Sayers <<a href="mailto:D.Sayers@SWANSEA.AC.UK">D.Sayers@SWANSEA.AC.UK</a>><br>
Subject: The Life of Slang (on BBC Today programme)<br>
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Prof. Julie Coleman interviewed about a new book:<br>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cvpyv/Today_06_03_2012/?t=1h42m34s" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cvpyv/Today_06_03_2012/?t=1h42m34s</a><br>
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That link should take you to the right spot in the programme, but if it<br>
takes you to the start of the programme instead, then just scroll to 1h<br>
42m 34s.<br>
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Dave<br>
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Dr. Dave Sayers<br>
Honorary Research Fellow<br>
College of Arts & Humanities<br>
and Language Research Centre<br>
Swansea University<br>
<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a><br>
<a href="http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers" target="_blank">http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers</a><br>
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:07:08 -0800<br>
From: John Rickford <<a href="mailto:rickford@STANFORD.EDU">rickford@STANFORD.EDU</a>><br>
Subject: Call for Posters: Stanford symposium on language, race and ethnicity, May 3-4, 2012<br>
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CALL FOR POSTERS<br>
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"Racing Language, Languaging Race": A symposium sponsored by the Center for Race, Ethnicity and Language [CREAL] at Stanford University, May 2012<br>
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Abstracts are invited for a poster session to be held at the start of a two-day symposium on “Racing Language, Languaging Race,” to be held at Stanford University, Thu May 3 to Fri May 4, 2012. The symposium will also include presentations from 22 speakers and discussants in three broad areas: Race and Ethnicity in Sociolinguistics, Race and Ethnicity in Linguistic Anthropology, and Race and Ethnicity in Language Education. For a list of presenters and other information, see the CREAL website: <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/creal/cgi-bin/drupal/" target="_blank">http://www.stanford.edu/group/creal/cgi-bin/drupal/</a><br>
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Abstracts for posters relating to the conference theme, should be no more than 300 words, and should be submitted by March 23 to <a href="mailto:CREALconference@stanford.edu">CREALconference@stanford.edu</a><br>
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Decisions about accepted posters will be communicated by March 30.<br>
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