28.2515, Calls: Socioling/South Africa

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Subject: 28.2515, Calls: Socioling/South Africa

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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:13:49
From: Christiane Meierkord [srobinson at linguistlist.org]
Subject: The Global Growth of English at the Grassroots

 
Full Title: The Global Growth of English at the Grassroots 

Date: 02-Jul-2018 - 06-Jul-2018
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 
Contact Person: Christiane Meierkord
Meeting Email: christiane.meierkord at rub.de
Web Site: http://www.icl20capetown.com/images/WorkshopSummaries/19.-New-directions-in-world-Englishes-research.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

The global growth of English at the grassroots 
(Day 2 of workshop 19: New directions in World Englishes research)

Christiane Meierkord & Edgar W. Schneider
Ruhr-University of Bochum & University of Regensburg 

During the last decades, individual languages have spread vastly beyond their
original areas of usage, as second or foreign languages. This applies
particularly strongly to English, having produced what are called World
Englishes. In the past, these have largely been associated with and analyzed
as spoken by educated elites in their respective societies, while the
performances of speakers from outside of the ‘educated’ range have typically
received scanty attention or have been sidelined as (fossilized) learner
language or contact-induced forms. 

Increasingly, however, second and foreign language Englishes are used at the
grassroots level, by individuals coming from poor backgrounds and with little
or no access to formal education and in contexts outside of international
organisations, education and academia, and the business world (Meierkord
2012), often typically having been learned ''in direct interactions rather
than through formal education'' (Schneider 2016). 

Employing a broad understanding of grassroots diffusion, this workshop section
aims to explore and describe how English spread to and is being appropriated
in such contexts. This seems timely, since, although precise figures are not
available, such grassroots usage and diffusion of English appears to be an
extremely common phenomenon these days, caused by various forms of migration
and travel, intercultural contacts, and, to some extent, the Internet.


Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions on the following:

- theoretical discussions of the relation between notions of hybrid languages,
trans- & polylanguaging and World Englishes;
- sociolinguistic accounts of grassroots individuals or communities using
English and of grassroots settings and situations in which L2 Englishes are
increasingly used;
- descriptions of the structural features characterizing the use of English at
the grassroots;
- qualitative data analyses of grassroots L2 uses;
- discussions of ethical aspects related to pursuing research with communities
that are vulnerable.

Presentations will be 20 minutes in length followed by 10 minutes discussion
time.

Please direct any questions to Christiane Meierkord
(christiane.meierkord at rub.de) and/or Edgar Schneider (edgar.schneider at ur.de). 

Abstracts should be 200 to 350 words long and must be submitted, strictly, via
the ICL website at
http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts, where
further details on abstract submission are also available.

Deadline for abstract submission: 24 July 2017
Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 October 2017




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