28.4027, Calls: English, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Subject: 28.4027, Calls: English, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:51:37
From: Mario Cal [mario.cal at usc.es]
Subject: Pushing English to the Limit: Innovation, creativity and communicative negotiation in native and non-native contexts

 
Full Title: Pushing English to the Limit: Innovation, creativity and communicative negotiation in native and non-native contexts 
Short Title: ICNICE2018 

Date: 14-Jun-2018 - 15-Jun-2018
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
Contact Person: Mario Cal
Meeting Email: symposium.icnice at usc.es
Web Site: http://www.usc.es/en/congresos/icnice2018 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

Both teenagers and ELF speakers constitute major groups of “the movers and
shakers of language change” (Tagliamonte 2016). This is the topic of an
international project on “Conversation in contemporary English: innovation,
creativity and negotiation in native and non-native contexts”, coordinated by
the SPERTUS research group at the University of Santiago de Compostela. This
is also the main theme of this 2-day seminar, where participants are invited
to present, discuss their findings and contribute fresh perspectives on the
project’s topic. 

The aim of the seminar is to delve into the nature of spoken English in such
domains as teenage talk and in ELF internet conversations, which are major
sources of linguistic innovation destined to exert an important influence in
the future of the English language. In particular, we expect participants to
discuss issues related (a) to the communication strategies of native and
non-native teenagers in their everyday oral exchanges; (b) to the nature of
internet talk, with a special interest on how the medium impacts on the
communicative practices of ELF speakers (e.g., the management of interpersonal
relationships, the organization of the conversation,  the negotiation of the
code); and, finally, (c) to the behaviour of English learners in their
communicative interactions, including the investigation of issues ranging from
the existence of language transfer phenomena to the use of specific learning
strategies for the development of spoken skills.


Call for Papers:

The aim of the seminar is to delve into the nature of spoken English in such
domains as teenage talk and in ELF internet conversations, which are major
sources of linguistic innovation destined to exert an important influence in
the future of the English language. In particular, we expect participants to
discuss issues related (a) to the communication strategies of native and
non-native teenagers in their everyday oral exchanges; (b) to the nature of
internet talk, with a special interest on how the medium impacts on the
communicative practices of ELF speakers (e.g., the management of interpersonal
relationships, the organization of the conversation,  the negotiation of the
code); and, finally, (c) to the behaviour of English learners in their
communicative interactions, including the investigation of issues ranging from
the existence of language transfer phenomena to the use of specific learning
strategies for the development of spoken skills.

The event will consist of plenary lectures and research papers by some of the
project members, but the organization also invites contributions by ‘external’
participants in the form of papers and posters on the project’s specific
topics. These contributions should shed light and open up new perspectives on
both general and more specific issues in relation to adolescent English and
English as a Lingua Franca conversations like the following:

- Features of computer-mediated talk
- Language innovation and creativity
- Accommodation
- The creation of rapport
- The expression of individual and group identities
- Norm-breaking and norm-negotiation
- Conversation management
- Language attitudes
- Issues on the teaching and learning of oral skills in the ESL classroom
 

We request abstracts of 500 words (not counting the reference list) for paper
and poster presentations. For reports on research in its very early phases
with no intermediate or final results, we suggest submitting an abstract for a
poster rather than a paper presentation.

Abstracts should be submitted  by 15 January 2018 through our online
submission system: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ICNICE2018
Abstract submission will open on 15 October 2017.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by  1 March 2018, along with the
second circular. Registration opens on 1 March 2016 and closes on 15 May 2018.




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