36.2585, Confs: Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association 2026 Joint National Conference (USA)

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Subject: 36.2585, Confs: Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association 2026 Joint National Conference (USA)

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Date: 01-Sep-2025
From: James G. Mitchell [james.mitchell at salve.edu]
Subject: Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association 2026 Joint National Conference


Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association 2026 Joint
National Conference
Short Title: PCA/ACA 2026
Theme: Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area

Date: 08-Apr-2026 - 11-Apr-2026
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Contact: James G. Mitchell
Contact Email: james.mitchell at salve.edu
Meeting URL: https://pcaaca.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Nov-2025

The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular
Culture Association is seeking presentations on any language attitude
or language-related popular culture topic, such as:
 - the language attitudes of X (for example, new baby greeting cards,
truck drivers, student writers, first generation immigrants, etc.)
 - issues with prescriptivism
 - language and advertising or other media;
 - professional, corporate, or other industry-related language;
 - dialect, code-switching, or historical studies of language and
language attitudes;
 - animal or extraterrestrial communication;
 - language and education, including pedagogical approaches;
 - gendered communication or other sociolinguistic topics;
 - language and popular literature or television/film
 - language and censorship;
 - first and second language acquisition;
 - any topic that relates to popular linguistics or language
attitudes.
This year’s conference will be held in Atlanta, GA, April 8-11, 2026.
All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through the PCA Website
(https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines). Please submit a
proposal to only one area at a time.
Undergraduate Students
The Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics area of the PCA gladly
ACCEPTS papers from undergraduate students. There are no specific
undergraduate panels in this area. Undergraduate student presentations
will be scheduled in the session which topic best aligns with the
student’s own subject matter. Please contact the area chair for a copy
of our undergraduate guidelines.
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2025



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