29.39, Calls: English, General Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 29.39, Calls: English, General Linguistics/UK

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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:58:25
From: Zhiming Bao [baozhiming at cuhk.edu.cn]
Subject: Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to World Englishes

 
Full Title: Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to World Englishes 
Short Title: ISLE5-World Englishes 

Date: 17-Jul-2018 - 17-Jul-2018
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Zhiming Bao
Meeting Email: baozhiming at cuhk.edu.cn
Web Site: https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-conference/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

New varieties of English, like other new languages such as pidgins and
creoles, are often the last domains to be investigated in the introduction of
a new linguistic theory, and generally have been considered from a pedagogical
point of view to fall within the extremities of empirical sociolinguistic
research alone. More recently, however, publications such as Wolf and
Polzenhagen (2009), Hoffmann and Trousdale (eds., 2011) and Filppula, Klemola
and Sharma (eds., 2017) have successfully attempted to cross the boundaries
that separate dialect study from mainstream linguistics, in demonstrating that
studies of English dialect variation may necessitate closer involvement with
traditional linguistic theory. Others, such as Siemund (2013) have
convincingly applied descriptive, typological perspectives to the study of the
new, world Englishes, and Bao (2015) and Ziegeler (2015) also present studies
in Singaporean English which are examined from a distinctively theoretical
point of view.

The study of international Englishes has also been considerably advanced by
the creation of the ICE corpora, which have the advantage of maintaining
parallel text consistency across an ever-increasing selection of the world’s
English varieties, enabling researchers to test theoretical hypotheses within
compatible data-bases. The study of international Englishes has long benefited
from comprehensive descriptive classifications such as Kachru (1992) and
Schneider (2003) have offered. However, there is still a great deal of
research to be undertaken in order to introduce stronger theoretical
perspectives into the domain of world Englishes, without losing the advantages
of rigorous methodologies which are still largely empirical in nature. The
need for empirical support is a fait accompli in the study of international
dialects of English, and should not be ignored as a foundational basis for the
development of new theoretical applications. Therefore, the aims of the
proposed workshop are to explore the extent to which current, linguistic
theoretical trends may be informed by empirical research into world Englishes,
and applied to the results of such studies.


Call for Papers:

We invite papers on theoretical approaches to the study of World Englishes.
The scope of the workshop will be a broad one, from formal or corpus-based
treatment of morphosyntactic, phonological and lexicographic phenomena in
World Englishes to contact-theoretic analyses of linguistic change, and also
including functional approaches such as grammaticalisation and ‘unification’
grammars. We especially welcome papers that embed the study of World Englishes
within the general linguistic paradigm.
The regulations of ISLE5 require that the workshop will be small, with no more
than six papers. Abstracts should be about 500 words long, excluding
references, and must be anonymous. The deadline for submission of the
abstracts is 1 March 2018. 

Please submit the abstracts by email directly to the convenors.

Convenors:

Debra Ziegeler, Université de Paris 3
dpziegeler at gmail.com

Zhiming Bao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
baozhiming at cuhk.edu.cn




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