Full Title: South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Short Title: SAMLA

Date: 15-Nov-2024 - 17-Nov-2024
Location: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Contact Person: Troy E. Spier
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://southatlanticmla.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 28-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

As we visualize the theme of SAMLA 96, Seen and Unseen, we are tasked with discovering, uncovering, and recovering. What we see may only tell part of the story, while what we do not see may represent something more or something different. “Seen and Unseen” seeks to question what surrounds us, whether in the concrete or in the abstract. The exploration of concepts relating to visual culture, material studies, gender studies, disability studies, liminality, taboo, adaptations, censorship, scene/scenery or ‘behind the scenes’, film studies, and archives will anchor critical inquiries. In terms of professional development and pedagogy, the notions of visibility may guide conversations on capstone projects, job materials, contingent faculty, unseen labor, from (class) research to article publication, and from crafting/drafting to publishing/disseminating. To what degree, then, does the lens influence what and how we see?

Call for Papers:

Research in linguistics seems to indicate that Anaxagoras was correct when remarking over two-thousand years ago that "appearances are a glimpse of the unseen." Indeed, linguistic landscapes provide insight on the population and the functional load of corresponding languages; research into un(der)documented languages sheds light on the degree of universality among languages and the important relationship between people and their environment; discourse analysis can uncover the ways in which we conceptualize and understand others, ourselves, and our world; and more theoretical research clarifies the relationship between modular levels of 'language' (as phenomenon) and its connection to human cognition. For this reason, analysis of the 'seen' requires one to consider the underlying 'unseen.' As a result, this special session welcomes submissions on any aspect of applied or theoretical linguistics from non-literary perspectives. Nevertheless, abstracts addressing the issue of the (un)seen, which is the theme for this year's conference, are especially welcome, though submissions on other topics within linguistics more broadly will also be considered. By July 28, 2024, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, a brief biographical blurb, and any A/V or scheduling requests to Troy E. Spier, Florida A&M University, at [email protected].

The approved session information can also be found here: https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19061