27.2987, Calls: English, Socioling/Spain

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:41:46
From: Cristina Suarez-Gomez [biclce.englishes.workshop at gmail.com]
Subject: Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes: Apparent-time and diachronic studies

 
Full Title: Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes: Apparent-time and diachronic studies 

Date: 28-Sep-2017 - 30-Sep-2017
Location: Vigo (Pontevedra), Spain 
Contact Person: Cristina Suarez-Gomez
Meeting Email: biclce.englishes.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: http://biclce2017.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at BICLCE2017 (7th Biennial International Conference on the
Linguistics of Contemporary English, https://biclce2017.wordpress.com/) in
Vigo, 28-30 September 2017

Convenors: 
Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands), Lucía
Loureiro-Porto (University of the Balearic Islands) and Robert Fuchs (Hong
Kong Baptist University)

Corpus-based research on World Englishes has increased exponentially since the
1990s, in particular with the gradual release of various corpora compiled as
part of International Corpus of English project (ICE,
http://ice-corpora.net/ice/) (Greenbaum 1996), which facilitate synchronic
comparative studies of linguistic aspects in different varieties. A number of
these corpora contain metadata with information on social variables such as
age, gender, native language(s), etc., which allow more detailed
sociolinguistic and apparent-time studies. Additionally, several diachronic
corpora of World Englishes are currently being compiled or have recently
become available, such as, e.g., the Corpus of Oz Early English (COOEE) (see
Fritz 2007), the Corpus of Early New Zealand English (CENZE) (see Hundt 2012),
Phil-Brown (see Collins et al. 2014), the Historical Corpus of Singapore
English (see Hoffman et al. 2012), the Historical Corpus of Ghanaian English
(see Brato 2014), among others. This has made it possible to increase the
scope of linguistic analysis of World Englishes to include diachronic corpus
studies. Both types of corpora have allowed scholars to gain insights into the
linguistic features of the different varieties around the world and to
discover:

(i) linguistic patterns of convergence with the input varieties, 
(ii) linguistic patterns derived from the status of these World Englishes as
second-language varieties and therefore products of language acquisition,
(iii) linguistic patterns of divergence, motivated by the different local
ecologies in which these varieties developed, and 
(iv) more generally, patterns of language change, as shown by diachronic
comparisons.

In parallel to the compilation of corpora, different models of analysis of
World Englishes have been proposed in the last two decades (cf. Seoane 2016).
Kachru’s Concentric Circles Model (1985) was complemented by Schneider’s
Dynamic Approach (2003, 2007), which incorporates an evolutionary perspective
lacking in previous models. The 21st century dynamics of English, however, are
characterized  by mobility, mediatization, and the development of English in
polyglossic situations, aspects that are arguably captured better by more
recent accounts: Mair’s ‘World System of Englishes’ (2013), for example, is
based on the sociolinguistics of globalization (Blommaert 2010). Other recent
attempts to account for the current situation of English include the concept
of ‘Transnational Attraction’, described in Schneider (2014), as well as the
model recently sketched out by Buschfeld & Kautzsch (2016) known as the
‘extra- and intra-territorial forces’ (EIF) model, which calls for an
integrated approach to ESL and EFL varieties. The study of the integration of
these two types of Englishes as well as the attempt to portray the diachronic
evolution of these varieties is a novel line of research that needs to be
continued.


Call for Paper: 

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the area of
morphosyntactic variation and/or change in World Englishes (be it an L1, a
colonial variety or a Foreign Language). In particular, contributions dealing
with the following aspects are welcome:

- morphosyntactic change, both based on diachronic corpora and apparent-time
studies
- the paradigm gap between ESL and EFL varieties and their convergent and/or
divergent grammars 
- convergence with the input variety/varieties, motivated by the influence of
the superstrate, and/or the learning processes which shape the grammars of
indigenized varieties through processes of analogy and transparency.
- divergent grammars/grammatical constructions, specifically those motivated
by the local ecologies and substrate(s) languages

The workshop will consist of full papers and work-in progress reports, which
will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation (plus 10 minutes for discussion).
The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2016. Notification of acceptance
will be sent out by the end of January 2016. Abstracts should be sent to
biclce.englishes.workshop at gmail.com. 

We are planning to publish the papers after peer-review process in an edited
volume or a special issue of a reputable journal.




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