29.333, FYI: Call for Chapters: Language and Literary Discourse in English

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-333. Fri Jan 19 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.333, FYI:  Call for Chapters: Language and Literary Discourse in English

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:05:30
From: Iyabode Nwabueze [akewoauthe at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Language and Literary Discourse in English

 
Language and Literary Discourse in English: The New Media as a Tool or an
Encumbrance?

Call for Papers:

This book project will focus on the investigation of language and literary
discourse in English vis-à-vis the new media. The book will investigate the
discourse of modernity within the linguistic and literary traditions of the
21st century. Emerging issues in the contemporary world, as they engage with
literary and linguistics interests will also be given much attention and focus
in the volume. 
Scholars are hereby invited to contribute original essays that explore in
great detail and creativity one or more of the following sub-themes:

- Gender discourse and language in the 21st century
- Information and technology as tools of language preservation
- The social media as an expressive medium
- Orality and modernity, the virtual link
- Cultural economy as an emerging cultural platform
- Linguicide as a 21st century possibility; the new media as a survivalist
option?
- Globalisation as self-victimisation; whither the Third World?
- Information overload and linguistic expressiveness
- Knowledge control as wealth control
- The media and the social control of global knowledge and resources
- The social media as a tool for global mobilisation
- E-books and new platforms for the 21st century author
- Hashtags and social crusades in contemporary times
- Women (dis)empowerment in animation films

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts of not more than 250 words, a short biography, and further enquiry
(if any) should be sent to Iyabode Omolara Akewo Nwabueze, PhD –
akewoauthe at gmail.com, idaniel at noun.edu.ng and Bridget Anthonia Yakubu, PhD –
brigettemak at gmail.com, ayakubu at noun.edu.ng (both of the Department of
Langugages, Faculty of Arts, National Open University of Nigeria) not later
than 30 March, 2018. 
The short biography should include title, name, status, institutional
affiliation, and email address. Theme(s) of focus in the paper should also be
indicated. Letters of Acceptance will be sent by 15 April, 2018. Full Papers
are expected to be submitted by 10 July, 2018. Papers should not be more than
6000 words in double space, Times New Roman font, point 12. The 6th edition of
the APA style of referencing should be used for language-related essays, while
the 7th edition of the MLA referencing style should be used for
literature-related essays.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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