ADS at MMLA

[Beth Simon]

ADS at the MMLA, Marriott City Center, Minneapolis MN

Dear Scholars, Students, etc. of Language Structure, Meaning, Use, Variation, Change and So On,

Please join us this Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., in Deer Lake 108, of the Minneapolis Marriot City Center for what promises to be an exciting set of presentations. (Afterward, I am treating everyone for a libation of choice).

The papers:
Language Variation and Change in the Urban Midwest:
The Case of St. Louis, Missouri
Thomas E. Murray
Kansas State University

Michigan shop talk:  Is a 'grievance' taken more seriously than a 'concern'?
Jan Bernsten
University of Michigan - Flint

Portable community: the linguistic and psychological reality of Midwestern Pennsylvania German
Steven Hartman Keiser
Marquette University

A Critical Approach to Discourse Variation
Kathyrn Remlinger
Grand Valley State University




beth lee simon, midwest regional secretary, ADS
associate professor, linguistics and english
indiana university purdue university
fort wayne, in 46805-1499
voice 260 481 6761; fax 260 481 6985
email simon at ipfw.edu