37.2838, Confs: Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association (USA)

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Subject: 37.2838, Confs: Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association (USA)

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Date: 04-Sep-2026
From: James G. Mitchell [james.mitchell at salve.edu]
Subject: Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association


Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture
Association
Short Title: PCA
Theme: Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics

Date: 24-Mar-2027 - 27-Mar-2027
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Contact: James G. Mitchell
Contact Email: james.mitchell at salve.edu
Meeting URL: https://pcaaca.org/

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

Submission Deadline: 31-Oct-2026

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.
All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through the PCA Website.
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.



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