25.3666, Calls: Sociolinguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-3666. Thu Sep 18 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.3666, Calls: Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:26:25
From: James Mitchell [james.mitchell at salve.edu]
Subject: Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference

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Full Title: Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference 
Short Title: PCA/ACA 2015 

Date: 01-Apr-2015 - 04-Apr-2015
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA 
Contact Person: James Mitchell
Meeting Email: james.mitchell at salve.edu
Web Site: http://pcaaca.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2014 

Meeting Description:

Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference:
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics Area

Please join us in New Orleans, LA from April 1-4, 2015 for the PCA/ACA National Conference. We will convene at the New Orleans Marriott right on the edge of the French Quarter. The PCA/ACA is highly regarded in academe with well over 5,000 academic oral presentations given internationally, two top-tier journals (The Journal of American Culture and Journal of Popular Culture), and over 3,000 members. This year’s New Orleans conference should be exciting with papers on an enormous array of subjects, including popular linguistics and language attitudes.

Call for Papers:

The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association is seeking presentations on any language attitude or language-related popular culture topic, such as:

- The language attitudes of X (for example, new baby greeting cards, truck drivers,
student writers, first generation immigrants, etc.)
- Issues with prescriptivism
- Language and advertising or other media
- Professional, corporate, or other industry-related language
- Dialect, code-switching, or historical studies of language and language attitudes
- Animal or extraterrestrial communication
- Language and education, including pedagogical approaches
- Gendered communication or other sociolinguistic topics
- Language and popular literature or television/film
- Language and censorship
- First and second language acquisition
- Any topic that relates to popular linguistics or language attitudes

All proposals & abstracts must be submitted through the PCA database (http://pcaaca.org).
 Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time.

Submission deadline: November 1, 2014

Please send all inquires to 
James G. Mitchell,
 Salve Regina University
: james.mitchell at salve.edu







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