36.866, Confs: Modern Language Association (Canada)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-866. Wed Mar 12 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.866, Confs: Modern Language Association (Canada)

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Date: 12-Mar-2025
From: Mary Hayes [hayes at olemiss.edu]
Subject: Modern Language Association


Modern Language Association
Short Title: MLA
Theme: Linguistics and Literature forum

Date: 08-Jan-2026 - 12-Jan-2026
Location: Toronto, Canada

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Korean (kor)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Indo-European; Korean

Submission Deadline: 24-Mar-2025

The Linguistics and Literature forum is sponsoring two panels at MLA
2026 (in Toronto).
1) Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
MDM encompasses various genres of post-factual literature­ –
deepfakes, inauthentic soundbytes, recontextualized signs – rife in
21st-century public truth claims. What work does MDM pose for
linguists and literary scholars? Submit 250-word abstract to
https://forms.gle/8gzP9ri84SmBizpZ6
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 24 March 2025
2) Subtitling, closed captioning, and accessibility: Working across
codes and modalities
This panel seeks proposals that employ any linguistics method to
analyze subtitles or closed captioning in audiovisual texts. Topics
could include audience reception, language choice in multilingual
contexts, among others. Send 300-word abstract to
https://forms.gle/wQJxWgUvF5HbGAzA9
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 24 March 2025
Please email Mary Hayes (hayes at olemiss dot edu) with any questions.



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