23.2283, Calls: Linguistics & Literature, Sociolinguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2283. Fri May 11 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.2283, Calls: Linguistics & Literature, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:17
From: Peggy Lindsey [plindsey at georgiasouthern.edu]
Subject: 2012 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention

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Full Title: 2012 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention 
Short Title: SAMLA 

Date: 09-Nov-2012 - 11-Nov-2012
Location: Durham, NC, USA 
Contact Person: Peggy Lindsey
Meeting Email: plindsey at georgiasouthern.edu
Web Site: http://samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 22-Jun-2012 

Meeting Description:

2012 South Atlantic MLA Convention
November 9-11, 2012
Durham, North Carolina

Special Focus:

Text as Memoir: Tales of Travel, Immigration, and Exile

Featuring:

Dr. Leonard Barkan, Princeton University, Critical Plenary Speaker
Dr. Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Columbia University, Creative Plenary Speaker
Karenne Wood, University of Virginia, Featured Speaker 

Call for Papers:

In keeping with the conference theme 'Text as Memoir: Tales of Travel, Immigration and Exile,' this session invites papers from all linguistic disciplines which explore the language of travel, immigration, and/or exile. Topics may include, but are not limited to, considerations of the role of language in constructing/deconstructing personal, cultural, or national identities; of language as an (in)effective tool for conveying memory; or of cognitive metaphor in memoir.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Peggy Lindsey, Georgia Southern University, at plindsey at georgiasouthern.edu by Friday, June 22, 2012.

Please visit http://samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm for conference information.






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