Literary Onomastics

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(Here's an announcement I was asked to make - Allan Metcalf)

<< A new linguistic organization

The International Society for Literary Onomastics is being incorporated in
New York and will hold its first meeting on 2 May 2003 at Baruch College of
The City University of New York.

Would you please bring to the attention of ADS members that this
organization is going to offer new opportunities for them to read papers
and publish in the new journal on matters of names as they are connected to
myth and folklore, dialectology was represented in literature and similar
topics. The organization will offer expanded opportunities for
presentation, discussion and publication and will welcome papers in which
there is research into how popular ideas and various dialects are
represented in literature.

Proposals of 150-200 word abstracts for 15 minute papers can be expanded to
as many as 15 single-spaced pages in the printed proceedings are solicited.
Abstracts should reach Wayne Finke by 10 March 2003
at  wayne_finke at baruch.cuny.edu

We hope that this organization will cooperate with ADS, ANS and other
language-oriented groups.
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