LINGUIST List 22.724 Fri Feb 11 2011 Calls: Anthropological Ling, Socioling/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.     Erica Benson , American Dialect Society, Midwest Region (held at MMLA) Message 1: American Dialect Society, Midwest Region (held at MMLA) Date: 09-Feb-2011 From: Erica Benson <bensonejuwec.edu> Subject: American Dialect Society, Midwest Region (held at MMLA) E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: American Dialect Society, Midwest Region (held at MMLA) Short Title: ADS-M Date: 03-Nov-2011 - 06-Nov-2011 Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA Contact Person: Erica Benson Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.luc.edu/mmla/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 27-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: The American Dialect Society, Midwest Region (ADS-M), holds its annual meeting jointly with the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference. Call for Papers: We welcome papers dealing with varieties of English and other languages spoken in the United States. Presentations may be based in traditional dialectology or in other areas of language variation and change, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, folk linguistics, language and gender/sexuality, language attitudes and ideologies, pragmatics and politeness, linguistics in the schools, or critical discourse analysis. Abstract specifications: Email submissions only. Send abstract as an attachment in MS Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf). Abstract should be no more than 250 words, excluding title and references. Include word count at the end of the abstract and omit any identifying information (name, affiliation, etc). Include contact information, affiliation, and abstract title in the body of your email. March 27, 2011 is the deadline for abstracts. Send Abstracts to: Erica Benson, American Dialect Society, Midwest Secretary bensonejuwec.edu University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire If accepted to the conference, membership to MMLA is required. Membership is $50 for full professors, $45 for associate professors, $40 for assistant professors and schoolteachers, $35 for adjunct and part-time faculty, and $30 for students, independent scholars, retired, and unemployed. Discounts are available for multi-year memberships. Information on membership and registration is available at the MMLA website, http://www.luc.edu/mmla/index.html. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-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.