36.2584, Confs: Hybrid session at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (USA)

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Subject: 36.2584, Confs: Hybrid session at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (USA)

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Date: 01-Sep-2025
From: James G. Mitchell [james.mitchell at salve.edu]
Subject: Hybrid session at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference


Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
Short Title: NeMLA
Theme: Representing Bilingualism on American Television, Hybrid
Roundtable

Date: 05-Mar-2026 - 08-Mar-2026
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Contact: James G. Mitchell
Contact Email: james.mitchell at salve.edu
Meeting URL: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21963

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Sep-2025

This is a call for papers for a hybrid session at the Northeast Modern
Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA which will take
place March 5-8, 2026. Please see this link for the CFP and to submit
through the NeMLA site: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21963 .
On March 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order
designating English the official language of the United States while
simultaneously revoking a previous executive order from August 11,
2000, called “Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited
English Proficiency.” Despite being unclear if the White House has the
power to enact such a policy without Congressional action, many
professional linguistic and language-focused organizations throughout
the U.S. (e.g., ACTFL, LSA, MLA, AAAL, ATA) reacted quickly by
crafting statements explaining their opposition to such an order,
employing their knowledge and expertise about the linguistic situation
in the United States to counter this new Executive Order.
Meanwhile, on American television, the ways in which bilingualism is
represented has begun to evolve. More and more bilingual characters
and content including bilingual interactions have proliferated on the
small screen. This trend seems to countervail previous instantiations
of bilinguals and bilingualism, providing a shift from viewing
bilingualism as problematic or a deficit to more positive, normalized
portrayals of bilingualism as an asset.
It is in this context of contradictory cultural messages that we
invite proposals from various (inter)disciplinary perspectives that
consider representations of bilingual speakers and bilingualism on
American television, including U.S. territories. Topics may include,
for example:
--Portrayals of interactions employing code-switching, code-mixing,
code-meshing, and/or translanguaging,
--Use of subtitles in bilingual interactions or how these uses have
changed over time,
--How portrayals of bilingualism are different today than they have
been in the past,
--What messages the inclusion of bilingual characters or content
convey to the audience,
--How portrayals of bilingual speakers reinforce or challenge dominant
linguistic hierarchies,
--Representations of language policing, English-only policies, or
institutional attitudes toward bilingualism, and
--How bilingual viewers respond to television representations of their
languages and cultures, including critiques of authenticity and calls
for better representation.
Please submit your proposals by September 30, 2025



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