POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2020 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE: Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics Area
Location
Pennsylvania,
United States
Subject Fields
Social Sciences,
Communication,
Languages,
Linguistics
The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular 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.
This year’s conference will be held in Philadelphia, PA, April 15-18, 2020.
All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Database (https://pcaaca.org/conference/2020/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference-april-15-18-2020). Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time.
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2019
Contact Information
Please send all inquiries to:
James G. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI 02840
Contact Email
james.mitchell@salve.edu