23.1113, FYI: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Segun Awonusi

Mon Mar 5 21:28:20 UTC 2012

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Subject: 23.1113, FYI: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Segun Awonusi

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:28:07
From: Kofo Adedeji [kofo474 at yahoo.com]
Subject: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Segun Awonusi

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Prof. Segun Awonusi, will be 60 in March 2012. The 
phonetician/phonologist-cum-sociolinguist or perhaps more 
appropriately described as a sociophonologist (a product of the 
London School under the joint supervision of Professors A.C. Gimson 
and John Wells) has spent most of his academic career at the 
University of Lagos, Nigeria, where he occupies a Chair of English 
Language. He also has wide experience in administration as he was 
once the Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and 
Technology and currently the Vice Chancellor, Tai Solarin University of 
Education, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.

Friends, associates and colleagues think the best way of recognizing 
his contribution to knowledge is by producing a book entitled: 
Language in Societal Transformation: Perspectives from Nigeria, which 
will be presented to the public.

The following are the sub-themes of the publication:
-Linguistic Theories and Social Transformation
-Phonetics and Phonology in Educational Development
-The Sociolinguistics of Transformation
-The English Language in Global and Nigerian Settings
-The Morpho-Syntactics of Language Development in Nigeria
-English Language and Nigerian Education
-Literature as a weapon of Good Governance and Poverty Alleviation
-Literature and the Nigerian Reading Culture
-Education and the Challenges of Poor Performance in key subjects of 
the Nigerian Curriculum
-Literacy and Education
-Governance and Management Structures in relation to Educational 
Development

Contributions should be no longer than 20 pages, in 12-point Times 
New Roman font, typed double-spaced and should specify the 
preferred sub-theme. References must conform to the MLA and APA 
systems for Literature and Language respectively. An abstract of about 
250 words and a five-line paragraph containing autobiographical 
information should be included.

Please contact any of the following persons for more information: Dr. 
Joseph Osoba: jbosoba at yahoo.co.uk; jbosoba at gmail.com; Dr. Feyi 
Ademola-Adeoye: fademola-adeoye at unilag.edu.ng; feyiademola-
adeoye at yahoo.com; Dr. Kofo Adedeji: kadedeji at unilag.edu.ng; 
kofo474 at yahoo.com.  The deadline for submission of completed 
articles is 31st March, 2012.

Kind regards,
Dr. Kofoworola Adedeji
Secretary, UNILAG Local Organizing Committee
+234018023353981
kadedeji at unilag.edu.ng; kofo474 at yahoo.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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