POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
2021 NATIONAL CONFERENCE:
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics Area
CALL FOR PAPERS
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 Boston, MA, June 2-5, 2021 (https://pcaaca.org/conference).
All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through the PCA website portal
Undergraduate Students : The Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics area of the PCA gladly ACCEPTS papers from undergraduate students. Please view our Guidelines for Undergraduate Students. There are no specific undergraduate panels in this area. Undergraduate student presentations will be scheduled in the session which topic best aligns with the student’s own subject matter.
Submission Deadline: November 16, 2020
Please send all inquiries to:
James G. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Salve Regina University
