LINGUIST List 26.3332
Fri Jul 17 2015
Calls: General Linguistics/USA
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Jul-2015
From: James Mitchell <james.mitchell
salve.edu>
Subject: Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference
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Short Title: PCA/ACA 2016
Date: 21-Mar-2016 - 25-Mar-2016
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Contact Person: James Mitchell
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://pcaaca.org
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2015
Meeting Description:
Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference:
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics Area
This year’s conference will be held in Seattle, WA, March 21-25, 2016.
The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics area of the PCA/ACA seeks submissions of relevant papers in any/all fields of linguistics.
Call for Papers:
The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture/American 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
All proposals & abstracts must be submitted through the PCA database (
http://pcaaca.org).
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time.
Submission deadline: October 1, 2015
Please send all inquires to
James G. Mitchell,
Salve Regina University
: james.mitchell
salve.edu
Page Updated: 17-Jul-2015