Call for pariticipation: Ninth Annual Meeting, International Association for World Englishes (topics include impact of English on indigenous languages) -- ABSTRACT DEADLINE 1 APRIL

[Scott McGinnis]

*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

The Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Association for
World Englishes (IAWE) will be held at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, 17-20 October, 2002.

We invite abstracts of 20-minute papers and 3 hour colloquia on all
aspects of World Englishes, including:

Grammatical descriptions of world Englishes
Discourse Strategies
Genre Analysis
Second/Foreign Language Acquisition/Pedagogy
Evaluation, testing, and intelligibility
Code-switching. mixing,and  borrowing
Power, ideology, and identity
Planning and politics
Attrition: Impact/influence of English on the structures
        of indigenous languages
English in media and advertising

Abstract Deadline: 1 April, 2002.
Length of abstract of individual papers: 400 words Colloquium
abstracts: 500 words + individual abstracts

Send 7 copies of abstract on/before the deadline to:

Rakesh M. Bhatt
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois
4088 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

For inquiries, email: rbhatt at uiuc.edu.