LINGUIST List 22.682 Thu Feb 10 2011 Calls: Linguistics & Literature/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Chantelle Warner , Modern Language Association Message 1: Modern Language Association Date: 07-Feb-2011 From: Chantelle Warner <warnercemail.arizona.edu> Subject: Modern Language Association E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Modern Language Association Short Title: MLA Date: 05-Jan-2012 - 08-Jan-2012 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Contact Person: Chantelle Warner Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.mla.org/convention Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: The presidential theme for the 2012 convention in Seattle will be Language, Literature, Learning. Learning Literature through Language and Language through Literature Practical and theoretical explorations of literary linguistics in the teaching of languages and literatures: What is the role of stylistics in teaching literature? What potentials exist for the use of literary texts in language programs from the vantage of linguistic approaches to literature? In our pedagogies, how do we continue to respond to Jakobson=92s 1960 charge that linguists deaf to the poetic function of language and literary scholars unfamiliar with linguistic methods are anachronistic? Call for Papers: One-page abstracts and two-page CV by 1 March 2011; Chantelle Warner (warnercemail.arizona.edu) and Karen Sherwood Sotelino (kcssstanford.edu). Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.