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<TD align=middle><SPAN class=blue-dark5>Fri Oct 20 2006</SPAN>
<BR><BR><SPAN class=blue-dark5>FYI: CFP for Book on Slang in
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<TD class=p-match align=left width=700><STRONG>Date:</STRONG>
18-Oct-2006 <BR><STRONG>From:</STRONG> Odebunmi Akinola
<akinodeb<IMG
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align=absBottom>yahoo.com><BR><STRONG>Subject:</STRONG> CFP
for Book on Slang in American/African
Politics<BR><BR><BR>Papers are invited from scholars working
on slang and political discourse <BR>for publication in the
book, Perspectives on Slang in American and African
<BR>Politics. The papers, which could be of any length, should
address the <BR>topics below or any other one that is
considered relevant to the use and <BR>understanding of slang
in the political lives of Americans and Africans: <BR><BR>1.
Contextual issues in political slang <BR>2. Slang and
campaigns <BR>3. Slang and manifestoes <BR>4. Slang and
propaganda <BR>5. Slang and governance <BR>6. Slang and
political speech <BR>7. The media and political slang <BR>8.
Slang and election conduct <BR>9. Slang and grassroot
mobilisation <BR>10. Slang and political debates <BR>11. Slang
in parliamentary meetings <BR>12. Literary representation of
political slang <BR>13. Slang and political manoeuvres <BR>14.
Neologising and sustaining political slang <BR><BR>The
deadline for submission of articles is 31 March, 2007. Authors
<BR>should adopt the APA referencing style. Electronic or hard
copies of the <BR>papers should be sent to the following
address: <BR><BR>Dr Akin Odebunmi <BR>Department of English
<BR>University of Ibadan <BR>Ibadan, Nigeria <BR>E-mail:
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Sociolinguistics
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