forward: African American Women's Language Conference March 7-8, 2008

[Mary Bucholtz]

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S LANGUAGE CONFERENCE
7-8 March 2008
Holiday Inn Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
The African American Women's Language Conference will enable:

- Scholars to gain a broader, more interdisciplinary understanding of 
language use in the African American community by women as well as the ever 
more needed educational, sociocultural, and ecological aspects of AAWL.
- Scholars of language variation in American English and scholars in 
language variation in the Americas to look at African American Language 
(AAL) and AAWL more globally in order to understand the dynamic and still 
uncertain relationship between them and other varieties of language in the 
Americas.
- Members of the academic community and the general public who attend the 
conference to understand the importance of Black women's language use in 
not only the African American community but also other communities of 
language variation based on demographic and historical differences.
- Linguists and scholars in general to find ways to better disseminate 
scholarship on AAWL to the public.

Select Featured Speakers are:
Renee Blake, New York University	
Lanita Jacobs-Huey, U Southern California
Jennifer Bloomquist, Gettysburg College	
Joycelyn Moody, UTSA
Anne Charity, William and Mary University	
Marcyliena Morgan, Harvard U
Charles DeBose, California State U-Eastbay	
Elaine Richardson, The Ohio State U
Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, North Carolina State U	
Angela Rickford, San Jose State U
Adrienne Dixson, The Ohio State University	
Arthur K. Spears, CUNY-City College
Shelome Gooden, U Pittsburgh	
Denise E. Troutman, Michigan State U
Lisa Green, U Massachusetts-Amherst	
Alicia Beckford-Wassink, U Washington

If you would like more information about this conference, please visit our 
website at URL:
http://colfa.utsa.edu/colfa/aawlc/AfricanAmericanLangConf08.htm

You may also contact the conference organizer for additional information:
Sonja L. Lanehart
University of Texas at San Antonio
Department of English
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-0643
Phone: 210-458-6610
E-mail:  Sonja.Lanehart at utsa.edu


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Mary Bucholtz, Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
3607 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100
phone: (805) 893-5415
fax: (805) 893-7769
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/
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