Fwd: Call for Papers: ADS at MMLA

Tue Feb 14 20:03:10 UTC 2006

This could be a really worthwhile conference for a paper on the right topic!

Joshua

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Call for Papers: Language Variation and Change in the United States

The American Dialect Society, Midwest Region With the Midwest Modern Language
Association
9-12 November 2006

The Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois

We welcome papers dealing with varieties of English and other languages spoken
in the United States. Presentations may be based in traditional dialectology
or in other areas of language variation and change, including
sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, folk
linguistics, language and gender/sexuality, language attitudes, linguistics in
the schools, critical discourse analysis, or narratology.
April 15, 2006 is the deadline for 300-word abstracts. Email submissions only.

Send abstracts to:

Kathryn Remlinger
remlingk at gvsu.edu
American Dialect Society, Midwest Secretary
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
1-616-331-3122

Membership to ADS is recommended. Membership is $50 and includes a year's
subscription to the society's journal, American Speech, and a copy of the
Publication of the American Dialect Society (PADS, an annual hardbound
supplement). Membership information is available at www.americandialect.org.

Membership to MMLA is required. Membership is $35 for full and associate
professors, $30 for assistant professors and schoolteachers, $20 for adjunct
and part-time faculty, and $15 for students, retired, and unemployed.
Information on membership is available at the website below or by writing to
MMLA, 302 English-Philosophy Bldg, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1408, tel: 1-
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."

--
Kathryn Remlinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English: Linguistics
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401 USA
remlingk at gvsu.edu
tel: 616-331-3122
fax: 616-331-3430

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