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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:24:58
From: Helene Steigertahl [Helene.Steigertahl at uni-bayreuth.de]
Subject: Urbanized African Sociolinguistics - Questioning Research Foci

 
Full Title: Urbanized African Sociolinguistics - Questioning Research Foci 
Short Title: ECAS 2017 

Date: 29-Jun-2017 - 01-Jul-2017
Location: Basel, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Helene Steigertahl
Meeting Email: Helene.Steigertahl at uni-bayreuth.de
Web Site: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=4837 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

This panel H 01 ''Urbanized African Sociolinguistics - Questioning research
foci'' is part of the 7th ECAS (European Conference on African Studies) in
Basel, Switzerland in Summer 2017. The conference's topic is ''Urban Africa -
Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban''.

In the sociolinguistic description of language(s) in Africa, there is a
dichotomy between approaches focusing on urban as opposed to rural areas. The
panel intends to unite theoretical and methodological approaches to urban and
rural spaces to account for language use in Africa more realistically.

Rural Africa being considered ''backward'' (Wang et al. 2013: 14),
sociolinguistic studies in Africa have often focused on urban areas, where
globalization and communication are supposedly taking place.

This creates a dichotomy between approaches focusing on urban centers with
newly developing linguistic codes, language used by the elite, as opposed to
approaches concentrating on language documentation in rural areas.

Several studies concentrate on youth languages (Kiessling&Mous 2004;
Nassenstein&Hollington 2015), varieties of English (e.g. International Corpus
of English project), and the use and attitudes towards English in e.g.
capitals and universities. Most of the data on African Englishes has been
collected in these urban centers among the educated elite (e.g. Arua 2004,
Bekker 2008, Hoffmann 2010&2011, Kadenge 2009, Skandera 2003, Stell 2014, van
Rooy 2007). In contrast, data collected in rural areas rather focuses on
smaller languages and only little research has been conducted on language use,
especially of English (Nassenstein forthc.; Wang et al. 2013).


Call for Papers:

Susanne Mohr and Helene Steigertahl welcome abstracts for this panel via the
conference website:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=4837 . Click the
'Propose a paper' link at the bottom of the long abstract to be directed to
the webform for submissions.

This panel intends to bring together sociolinguistic studies in rural and
urban Africa as two intertwined spaces. It aims at developing a theoretical
and methodological framework applicable to both. Some of the ensuing questions
are:

- Are rural and urban Africa two different linguistic settings?
- Do language use and attitudes differ in rural and urban Africa?
- Why is rural language use mostly neglected in World Englishes research?
- Are sociolinguistic methods equally applicable to urban and rural spaces or
are new frameworks needed to analyze them adequately?

Contributions from African studies, Sociolinguistics, and World Englishes are
equally welcome.

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts! 

For further information please see the conference homepage
https://ecas2017.ch/cfp and the website of our panel:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=4837




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