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Directory 1. Terri Pantuso, African American Women's Language Conference '08 Message 1: African American Women's Language Conference '08
Date: 15-Jan-2008 From: Terri Pantuso <terri.pantusoutsa.edu> Subject: African American Women's Language Conference '08 E-mail this message to a friend African American Women's Language Conference '08 Short Title: AAWL Conference '08 Date: 07-Mar-2008 - 08-Mar-2008 Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA Contact: Sonja Lanehart Contact Email: sonja.lanehartutsa.edu Meeting URL: http://colfa.utsa.edu/colfa/aawlc/AfricanAmericanLangConf08.htm Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Meeting Description: Conference on African American Women's Language African American Women's Language Conference 7-8 March 2008 Holiday Inn Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX The African American Women's Language Conference will enable: -Scholars to gain a broader, more interdisciplinary understanding of language use in the African American community by women as well as the ever more needed educational, sociocultural, and ecological aspects of AAWL. -Scholars of language variation in American English and scholars in language variation in the Americas to look at African American Language (AAL) and AAWL more globally in order to understand the dynamic and still uncertain relationship between them and other varieties of language in the Americas. -Members of the academic community and the general public who attend the conference to understand the importance of Black women's language use in not only the African American community but also other communities of language variation based on demographic and historical differences. -Linguists and scholars in general to find ways to better disseminate scholarship on AAWL to the public. Select Featured Speakers are: Renee Blake, New York University Joycelyn Moody, UTSA Jennifer Bloomquist, Gettysburg College Marcyliena Morgan, Harvard U Anne Charity, William & Mary Iyabo Osiapem, William & Mary Charles DeBose, California State U-Eastbay Jacquelyn Rahman, Miami of Ohio U Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, North Carolina State U Calaya Reid, Clark Atlanta U Adrienne Dixson, The Ohio State University Elaine Richardson, The Ohio State U Shelome Gooden, U Pittsburgh Angela Rickford, San Jose State U Lisa Green, U Massachusetts-Amherst John Rickford, Stanford U Lanita Jacobs-Huey, U Southern California Arthur K. Spears, CUNY-City College Margaret Jones, U Nebraska-Omaha Denise E. Troutman, Michigan State U Andrea Kortenhoven, Calvin College Alicia Beckford-Wassink, U Washington If you would like more information about this conference, please visit our website at URL: http://colfa.utsa.edu/colfa/aawlc/AfricanAmericanLangConf08.htm You may also contact the conference organizer for additional information: Sonja L. Lanehart Phone: 210-458-6610 E-mail: Sonja.Lanehartutsa.edu Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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