Call for abstracts

[Susan Burt]

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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

8-11November 2007

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 1, 2007 is the deadline for abstracts. See below for abstract 
specifications.

Send abstracts to:

Susan M. Burt
smburt at ilstu.edu
American Dialect Society, Midwest Secretary
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
1-309-438-7840

Abstract specifications: Email submissions only; send abstract as an 
attachment in Word. Abstract should be no more than 250 words, 
excluding title and references. Include word count at the end of the 
abstract and omit any identifying information (name, affiliation, etc). 
Include contact information, affiliation, and abstract title in the 
body of your email.

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.”