<div> How Global is English in the Globalising World? <br><br>Date: 09-Sep-2009 - 12-Sep-2009 <br>Location: Lisbon, Portugal <br>Contact Person: Magdalena Wrembel <br>Meeting Email: magdala<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://amu.edu.pl">amu.edu.pl</a> <br>
Web Site: <a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/">http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/</a> <br><br>Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics <br><br>Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2009 <br><br>Meeting Description: <br><br>The workshop on 'How Global is English in the Globalising World' will be held as <br>
part of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 9-12 <br>September 2009, Lisbon. <br><br>Final Call for Papers <br><br>The aim of the workshop is to investigate the validity of the assumption that <br>
English has become a lingua franca of the contemporary world and to discuss <br>possible scenarios for its future development. We would like to invite a <br>scholarly debate on whether the globalisation of English leads to the <br>
consolidation of the global language or rather to its fragmentation into new <br>dialects and varieties. Therefore, we intend to explore the present factual <br>status of English in the globalising world as well as the emergence of new <br>
Englishes, including, e.g. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and Lingua Franca <br>Core (LFC ). The debate may also incorporate issues related to the fate of <br>English as jeopardised by other lingua francas such as Spanish or Chinese. <br>
Finally, we would like to look to the pedagogical implications of the current <br>status of English by exploring foreign learners' expectations and attitudes <br>towards various pronunciation models. <br><br>Key Research Areas: <br>
1) Facts about English as a global language <br>2) The emergence of new Englishes, Euro-English, foreigners' English <br>3) Fragmentation of English (internal threat) <br>4) Other Lingua Francas (external threat) <br>
5) Pedagogical implications, current pronunciation models <br><br>Workshop Organisers: <br>Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk <br>Magdalena Wrembel <br>Jolanta Sypiańska <br>(School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) <br>
<br>This is a session of the following conference <br>42nd Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea <br><a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/">http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-84.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-84.html</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br>Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br>
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br>
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