29.1915, Calls: English, Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics/India

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Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 12:00:08
From: Robert Fuchs [robert.fuchs at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: English in India and Indian Englishes: New Horizons in the Study of Phonetics and Phonology

 
Full Title: English in India and Indian Englishes: New Horizons in the Study of Phonetics and Phonology 

Date: 07-Sep-2018 - 07-Sep-2018
Location: Hyderabad, India 
Contact Person: Robert Fuchs
Meeting Email: robert.fuchs at uni-hamburg.de
Web Site: https://phinde1.wordpress.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2018 

Meeting Description:

Despite attempts immediately after independence to reduce the importance of
English as a major language in India, it continues to be used widely. Its most
important domains are public contexts such as education, administration,
business and politics, but it is also used widely by Indians who travel or
reside in a region whose local language they do not speak. English is the
primary domestic language for only a small minority, although many others use
it at home when discussing topics belonging to the public domain, as for
example when a parent asks their child what happened at school that day.
Around 23 % of the population of India have at least basic knowledge of
English, and 4 % are fluent. Based on the 2011 census, this means there are 50
million fluent speakers (Desai et al. 2010, Sailaja 2009, 2012, Fuchs 2014).

While it is widely recognised that English in India is not a monolithic entity
and that there is variation across, among others, variables such as education
and first language/mother tongue, there is a growing consensus that there is
an identifiable variety of English spoken in India. This variety is sometimes
called “neutral accent” and is locally prestigious as it shows only a small
degree of clearly identifiable traces of mother tongue influence. It is often
spoken by and aspired to by educated Indians (Cowie 2007, Maxwell & Fletcher
2009, 2012, Sirsa & Redford 2013, Fuchs 2016). However, the existing evidence
is still limited in a number of ways, among them by the number of phonological
variables, the number of distinct mother tongue groups and educational
backgrounds that have been investigated. A related field of inquiry is the
study of Indian Englishes spoken in the diaspora (e.g. Kirkham 2011), which,
despite its early successes, covers only some phonological variables and
geographic areas (with the bulk of the studies focusing on the United Kingdom,
notwithstanding exceptions such as Leung & Deuber 2014).

This workshop will provide a forum for empirical studies on the phonetics and
phonology of English in India and Indian Englishes in the diaspora. A
particular aim of the workshop is to encourage exchange and collaboration
between Indian and international researchers. Dr. Olga Maxwell, University of
Melbourne, will give a keynote on future perspectives in the study of the
phonology of Indian English.


Call for Papers:

We encourage submissions on the following topics, among others:

- Locally prestigious forms of English
- Variation in terms of educational background, socio-economic status,
geographic mobility within and outside of India, first language/mother tongue,
among others
- Indian Englishes in the diaspora
- Intelligibility, both within and outside India
- The pronunciation of English used in classrooms, both by teachers and in
aural and textual instructional materials

All submissions need to involve an empirical analysis in the realm of
phonetics/phonology. Abstracts should be up to two pages long (A4, 12 pt Times
New Roman, 1.5 spaced, 2 cm margins), including references. All abstracts
should comprise

- Brief discussion of previous literature
- Clear statement of the aims of the study and in how far they have not been
addressed by previous research
- Clear description of the methods of data analysis and precise indication of
the amount of data analysed (e.g. number of speakers, minutes of speech,
number of phonemes)
- Description of the results, including statistical tests and graphical
illustrations, where appropriate

All submissions should be carefully proofread and submitted via EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/cfp/phinde1 ) by 1 June 2018 and presenters will be
notified by 15 June 2018.




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