27.4885, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics / Sociolinguistic Studies (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:16:37
From: Eyo Mensah [eyomensah2004 at yahoo.com]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics / Sociolinguistic Studies (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Sociolinguistic Studies 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2017 

African Anthroponyms: Sociolinguistic Currents and Anthropological Reflections
Special Issue of Sociolinguistic Studies 13(1-2) April 2019
http://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/SS/index

Guest Editors:
Eyo Mensah, University of Calabar, Nigeria
Kirsty Rowan, University of London, UK.

Call Information:

In the African cultural context, personal names have both sense and referents.
Their interpretations are not extremely literal or semantic in content but
embody wide range peculiarities that need to be broadly contextualized and
understood from social, religious, cultural and pragmatic perspectives. In
this way, the power of African personal names reflects cultural variables such
as kinship, gender relations, class, cosmology, personal tastes and
preferences, and indexes relationships that define socio-cultural functions
and meaning.

African personal names, therefore, are creative cultural symbols that
represent experiences, conflicts or situations with deep historical
resonances. These names are a body of knowledge that reflect a wide gamut of
African culture; language, history, philosophy, spirituality and worldview.
African names mirror the patterns of the society's cultural and social
organization and are pointers to individuals' identities and collective
belonging. In Africa, personal names are communicative devices that tell
stories about historic events, familial conflicts, and the struggle with
supernatural powers which are central to the notions of personhood and
self-definition. Importantly, African personal names have been identified as
prominent sites to reflect on and interpret emotions, where a name can stand
for its bearer and synecdochally epitomizes the essence of his or her being.
In this concern, African names appear to inform how their bearers act, think
and feel, and how others react and respond towards them. In this way, African
personal names are significant entry points into African cosmology and
cosmogony.

Research in African personal names (anthroponyms) over the years has offered
intriguing insights into contemporary issues in names' scholarship from broad
interdisciplinary perspectives. However, sociolinguistic and anthropological
investigations of African names are sparse in the literature of onomastics.
This special issue therefore aims to extend the frontiers of knowledge by
renewing sociolinguistic and anthropological interests in African names'
research and filling this conceptual gap particularly with the increasing
contemporary globalized culture where there is apparent decline in cultural
identity. We welcome papers that examine African names from sociolinguistic
and anthropological trajectories, submerging the discussions on convergent
paths from different methodological, conceptual and theoretical backgrounds.
We wish to engage exciting new dimensions of African names' research with
innovative insights. 

Please submit an abstract on or before February 15, 2017. Decisions will be
sent to authors of accepted abstracts on March 1, 2017. Full papers are due by
December 15, 2017. End of blind peer-review process July 1, 2018. Publication
is Spring 2019.

Please send your abstract to: eyomensah2004 at yahoo.com and kr2 at soas.ac.uk

For further information, contact the Guest Editors, Dr. Eyo Mensah, Department
of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria (+234
8037161192) or Dr. Kirsty Rowan, Department of Linguistics, SOAS. University
of London, UK.




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