Call for Papers: ADS at MMLA

[Kathryn Remlinger]

Call for Papers: Fall meeting of ADS at MMLA (With apologies for
cross-posting.)

American Dialect Society at the 46th Annual Midwest Modern Language
Association Convention; November 4-7, 2004; St. Louis, Missouri; Hyatt
Regency.

Topic: "Language Variation and Change in the United States"

Papers dealing with varieties of English or other languages spoken in
the United States will be considered. Presentations may be based in
traditional dialectology, or in other areas of language variation and
change, including sociolinguistics, historical, anthropological, folk
linguistics, language and gender, critical discourse analysis, or
narratology.

April 15 is the deadline for 300-word abstracts. Send abstracts to the
meeting chair, Kathryn Remlinger, Associate Professor, Department of
English, Grand Valley State University, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI
49401; tel: 616-331-3122; fax: 1-616-331-3430; remlingk at gvsu.edu. Email
submissions are preferred.

Membership to MMLA is $35 full and associate professors, $30 assistant
professors and school teachers, $20 adjunct and part-time faculty, $15
students, retired, and unemployed. Write MMLA, 302 English-Philosophy
Bldg, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1408, tel: 319-335-0331.

For more information about ADS at MMLA, see the MMLA website,
www.uiowa.edu/~mmla, go to "Call for Papers", scroll down to "Associated
Organizations", then to "American Dialect Society."


Many thanks,

Kathryn Remlinger
Midwest Regional Secretary, ADS
Associate Professor of English: Linguistics
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
remlingk at gvsu.edu
1-616-331-3122