Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics

CALL FOR PAPERS - Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area

National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference

For Conference details click http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php

Deadline for proposal submissions is December 15.

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.

When I vet proposals, I look for coherence of idea and a strong connection to either attitudinal studies of language or to popular studies of language. Proposals should be detailed enough to suggest you have a clear grasp of where your research is heading you, but please keep proposals under 500 words, irrespective of any references.

Presentation length is 15 to 20 minutes (about 3200-3700 words), with four presenters per 90 minute session.

Send your presentation title and abstract, along with your name, position/title, very short bio, school/work address, phone number, and email address to me at donaher@missouriwestern.edu by December 15. For more information, feel free to contact me by email.

Patricia Donaher, Ph.D.

Area Chair, Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics

Associate Professor of English and Graduate Faculty

Department of English

Missouri Western State University

4525 Downs Drive

Saint Joseph, MO 64507

816-271-5964

donaher@missouriwestern.edu

For further information about the conference, please visit the PCA/ACA website at http://www.pcaaca.org/

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