The American Dialect Society, Midwest Region With the Midwest Modern Language Association 10-13 November 2005

The Pfister Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Papers dealing with varieties of English and other languages spoken in the United States will be considered. 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, linguistics in the schools, critical discourse analysis, or narratology. April 15, 2005 is the deadline for 300-word abstracts. Email submissions only.

Send abstracts to:

Kathryn Remlinger
American Dialect Society, Midwest Secretary
Grand Valley State University,
Allendale, Michigan
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1-616-331-3122 Membership to ADS is recommended. Membership is $50 and includes a year’s subscription to the society’s journal, American Speech, and a copy of the Publication of the American Dialect Society (PADS, an annual hardbound supplement). Membership information is available at https://americandialect.org. Membership to MMLA is required. Membership is $35 for full and associate professors, $30 for assistant professors and schoolteachers, $20 for adjunct and part-time faculty, and $15 for students, retired, and unemployed. Information on membership is available at the website below or by writing to MMLA, 302 English-Philosophy Bldg, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1408, tel: 1-319-335-0331. For more information about ADS at MMLA, see the MMLA website, http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla, go to “Call for Papers,” scroll down to “Associated Organizations,” then to “American Dialect Society.”