Award given to ADS Publication
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Read more: Award given to ADS PublicationHans Boas’ The Life and Death of Texas German, published by Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, has been selected to receive the Linguistic Society of America’s (LSA) prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award. First presented in 1992, the…
Call for papers: ADS Annual Meeting 2011, Pittsburgh
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Read more: Call for papers: ADS Annual Meeting 2011, PittsburghFrom Thursday, January 6, 2011, through Saturday, January 8, ADS will hold its next annual meeting at the Hilton Pittsburgh in downtown Pittsburgh, hosted as usual by the Linguistic Society of America. Monday, August 9 is the deadline for proposals…
2009 Word of the Year is “tweet”; Word of the Decade is “google”
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Read more: 2009 Word of the Year is “tweet”; Word of the Decade is “google”In its 20th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “tweet” (noun, a short message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message) as the word of the year and…