Dr. Jeutonne P. Brewer, 76, passed away on April 5, 2016. Jeutonne taught linguistics at UNC Greensboro for 30 years and also served as Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences. A service to celebrate Jeutonne’s life will be held Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hanes-Lineberry Funeral Home, Sedgefield Chapel. Those in attendance are encouraged to share their fond memories; the family will receive friends at the funeral home at 1:00. Online condolences can be made here; memorial contributions in Jeutonne’s name may be directed to Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro, 2500 Summit Ave., Greensboro NC 27405.
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SECOL LXXXIII
SECOL LXXXIII (83) was held at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, on March 28-31, 2016. More information may be found “here”
Attention student presenters at SECOL 83: Student members of SECOL can apply for the Reza Ordoubadian Award, a prize presented annually, recognizing the best student paper presented at the spring conference. Winners will receive a cash award, complimentary membership in SECOL, and the possibility to publish their papers in the Southern Journal of Linguistics. To be considered, please send an electronic copy of the paper (preferably PDF) to the Secretary, Catherine Evans Davies (cdavies@as.ua.edu) no later than January 7, 2017. Winners will be announced at the 2017 meeting in Charleston, SC. See http://secol.org/student-participation/ for more information.
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Linguistics
The University of the West Indies (UWI) is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Linguistics.
Application due date is January 22nd.
Assistant Professor in Linguistics University of Alabama
The University of Alabama English Department invites applications for one tenure-track (9 month) position in Applied Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful applicant will have a PhD in linguistics or applied linguistics; an active, successful research agenda with a primary emphasis in ESL writing; and a record of effective teaching.
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Assistant Professor of Spanish @ The University of Mississippi
The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2016.
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Post Script: Call for Papers
POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities, an interdisciplinary journal that has been publishing for thirty-three years, invites submissions for a special issue on Linguists at/on the Movies. Due date: October 1, 2015. More information
Megan Melancon Parrish
Megan Melancon Parrish, linguist and longtime contributor to “Among the New Words” in the American Dialect Society journal “American Speech,” has passed away.
Language Contact in the Danish West Indies
Robin Sabino, Auburn University. 2012. Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket. Boston, Massachusetts: Brill.
“Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to advance a revisionist history that elucidates the African linguistic resources used to create community in a land those who were transhipped did not choose and from which they could not return. In parallel fashion, the narrative locates the partial appropriation of creole features by the colony’s Euro-Caribbean community in the emergence of local identity. It also traces the replacement of Dutch and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole with their English counterparts.” website