28.2623, Calls: Gen Ling/Morocco

Wed Jun 14 14:54:26 UTC 2017

LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2623. Wed Jun 14 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2623, Calls: Gen Ling/Morocco

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:54:20
From: Adil Azhar [adilazhar11 at gmail.com]
Subject: African Languages in a Global World: From Description to State Policies

Full Title: African Languages in a Global World: From Description to State Policies 
Short Title: WOCAL9Rabat 

Date: 23-Aug-2018 - 26-Aug-2018
Location: Rabat, Morocco 
Contact Person: Adil Azhar
Meeting Email: wocal9rabat at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

Faithful to its well-established tradition, WOCAL furthers its research
concerns with the status of African languages in the modern world. The
particular focus of WOCAL9 centers on the nature and manifestations of the
impact of globalization on African languages. In the face of such a
transformative globalization wave, societies are being radically
deconstructed, giving birth to new societal forms and practices. Languages of
course are no exception to this trend; they, in particular, are involved in
the process both as objects to and agents of change. The main aim of the
conference is to bring under in-depth scrutiny a wide range of linguistic and
cultural phenomena and factors that influence African languages within the
context of global change. Special emphasis will be given to the status of
endangered languages.

Call for Papers:

The congress will be organized as plenary sessions for keynote addresses from
invited speakers and thematic parallel sessions for presentations of papers.
Poster sessions will also be scheduled during the conference days. We invite
abstracts for presentations or posters on the following sub-themes:

- African linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.)
- Language contact and diversity 
- African languages in legislation and policies. 
- Amazigh studies 
- Arabic on the African continent: Language contact phenomena (Impact of
Arabic on African languages; Arabic script, lexis, etc.) 
- Language and development 
- African languages and technology 
- African sociolinguistics (Language planning & policy/ policy implementation,
etc.) 
- Dialectology and isoglosses 
- African Languages in education 
- African languages and translation 
- African Sign Languages

Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research.

Submissions are solicited for theme session presentations which should last
for 20 minutes with 5-10 minutes for questions (maximum 30 minutes total), and
they should be in line with the following guidelines:

- Fill out the Abstract Submission Form at: https://goo.gl/jy1EpE
- Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and should NOT include the
authors’ names and should be submitted in English.
- The bio should not exceed 100 words.

Should you have queries, please send us an email to: wocal9rabat at gmail.com

Important dates:
The deadline for abstracts submission: September 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2017
Conference: August 23 – 26, 2018
Arrival: No later than August 22, 2018
Departure: August 27, 2018

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