<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear MSU Friends of Sociolinguistics,</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome to the start of a new academic year. Here are some announcements for upcoming events and opportunities, with more to follow.</div><div><br></div><div>MAILING LISTS</div><div>You can adjust your settings for this list, or direct others to join it, by going here: <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fos" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fos</a></div><div>The higher load MSU Sociolinguistics Lab is here: <span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sociolab" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sociolab</a></div><div><br></div><div>LAB MEETINGS</div><div>Fridays, 2pm - 3:30pm in B-442 Wells Hall. This semester, we're holding joint meetings with the linguistics graduate Phono Group (led by Professors Yen-Hwei Lin and Karthik Durvasula), as we currently have many students working on phonology/phonetics, sociolinguistics and/or their intersections. Contact me (wagnersu) or Karthik (durvasul) with any questions, or just come along. First meeting is Friday September 11th, when we'll work out our program of events for the semester. This will be posted on the MSU Sociolinguistics website - see below.</div><div><br></div><div>Wednesdays, 10am - 11:30am in B-411 Wells Hall. Meetings of the IHELP project group. Contact me if you're interested in joining.</div><div><br></div><div>WEBSITE</div><div>The general site for all things sociolinguistic at MSU is: <a href="http://sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu.">http://sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu.</a> (Points to our Weebly site). We welcome your updates: faculty and student profiles, news items, publications and presentations, outreach events. Contact me or Monica Nesbitt (nesbit17) if you have contributions or questions. We're also looking for a dedicated website/social media person to keep things up to date and broaden our reach. This would be a good experience for an undergraduate. No HTML skills required!</div><div><br></div><div>RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES</div><div>For opportunities to volunteer with ongoing sociolinguistic research projects, contact me. </div><div><br></div><div>VISITING SPEAKERS</div><div>The Linguistics Colloquium has invited two speakers of particular interest to sociolinguists: Dr Anne Curzan (UMich) and Dr Maya Ravindranath Abtahian (URochester). See: <a href="http://msulinguists.weebly.com/colloquium-and-events.html">http://msulinguists.weebly.com/colloquium-and-events.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>NWAV 44</div><div>Here are the MSU presentations accepted to the NWAV 44 conference in October: <a href="http://msusociolinguistics.weebly.com/nwav-44.html">http://msusociolinguistics.weebly.com/nwav-44.html</a></div><div>To join the student van going to Toronto, contact Alexander Mason (masonal).</div><div><br></div><div>Watch this space for more...</div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Suzanne Evans Wagner<br>Associate Professor of Linguistics<div>B-401 Wells Hall<br>Department of Linguistics and Languages<br>Michigan State University<br>East Lansing, MI 48824<br><br>Tel: +1 (517) 355-9739<br><a href="http://www.msu.edu/%7Ewagnersu" target="_blank">http://www.msu.edu/~wagnersu</a><br><a href="http://sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu" target="_blank">sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Office hours: <a href="http://swagner.youcanbook.me" target="_blank">http://swagner.youcanbook.me</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Associate editor, <a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan" style="font-style:italic" target="_blank">Linguistics Vanguard</a></span><br></div><div>Co-editor, <i><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSLC/" target="_blank">Routledge Studies in Language Change</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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