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[Susan Burt]

hello, all!

Folks on this list may be interested in the opportunity to present a
paper in Minneapolis in November at the American Dialect Society
sessions.  If this applies to you, please peruse the attached call 
below and
send me an abstract!  If this does not apply to you, please print the
attached call and pass it on to colleagues, or post it on your office
door.  Please help me to get the word out!

thanks, everyone!

Susan

Susan M. Burt
Associate Professor
Department of English
Illinois State University
Campus Box 4240
Normal, IL 61790-4240


Call for Papers:


English and Other Languages

in the United States and Canada

 

The American Dialect Society, Midwest Region

With the Midwest Modern Language Association

 

13-16 November 2008

Marriott Minneapolis City Center Hotel

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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 and ideologies, pragmatics and politeness, linguistics in the 
schools, or critical discourse analysis.

April 1, 2008 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 MMLA 
website.

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.”