The American Dialect Society, Midwest Region with the Midwest Modern Language Association, 9-12 November 2006, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois.

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, linguistics in the schools, critical discourse analysis, or narratology.

April 15, 2006 is the deadline for 300-word abstracts. Email submissions only.

Send abstracts to:

Kathryn Remlinger
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American Dialect Society, Midwest Secretary
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
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 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 and scroll down to “Associated Organizations,” then to “American Dialect Society.”