CFP: Language Variation and Change in the US (4/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

Call for Papers: Language Variation and Change in the United States

The American Dialect Society, Midwest Region, With the Midwest Modern=20
Language Association; 10-13 November 2005; At The Pfister, Milwaukee,=20
Wisconsin

Papers dealing with varieties of English and other languages spoken in=20=

the United States will be considered. Presentations may be based in=20
traditional dialectology or in other areas of language variation and=20
change, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics,=20
anthropological linguistics, folk linguistics, language and=20
gender/sexuality, language attitudes, linguistics in the schools,=20
critical discourse analysis, or narratology.
April 15, 2005 is the deadline for 300-word abstracts. Email=20
submissions only.

Send abstracts to:
Kathryn Remlinger
American Dialect Society, Midwest Secretary
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
1-616-331-3122

Membership to ADS is recommended. Membership is $50 and includes a=20
year's subscription to the society's journal, American Speech, and a=20
copy of the Publication of the American Dialect Society (PADS, an=20
annual hardbound supplement). Membership information is available at=20
www.americandialect.org.

Membership to MMLA is required. Membership is $35 for full and=20
associate professors, $30 for assistant professors and schoolteachers,=20=

$20 for adjunct and part-time faculty, and $15 for students, retired,=20
and unemployed. Information on membership is available at the website=20
below or by writing to MMLA, 302 English-Philosophy Bldg, U of Iowa,=20
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408, tel: 1-319-335-0331.

For more information about ADS at MMLA, see the MMLA website,=20
www.uiowa.edu/~mmla, go to =93Call for Papers,=94 scroll down to=20
=93Associated Organizations,=94 then to =93American Dialect Society.=94

Kathryn Remlinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English: Linguistics
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49456 USA
tel: 1-616-331-3122
fax: 1-616-331-3430
remlingk_at_gvsu.edu=

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