30.2025, Confs: Anthro Ling, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 30.2025, Confs: Anthro Ling, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 23:51:15
From: Monika Reif [reif at uni-landau.de]
Subject: Cultural Linguistics & Varieties of African Englishes

 
Cultural Linguistics & Varieties of African Englishes 
Short Title: LAUD 2020 - Theme Session 3 

Date: 03-Aug-2020 - 06-Aug-2020 
Location: Landau in der Pfalz, Germany 
Contact: Martin Pütz 
Contact Email: puetz at uni-landau.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

LAUD 2020

Theme session 3: 
Cultural Linguistics and varieties of African Englishes

One of the more recent strands or orientations in Cognitive Linguistics refers
to the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area
of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural
conceptualisations and its key notions of cultural cognition, cultural schema,
cultural category, and cultural metaphor. The analytical tools of Cultural
Linguistics can produce in-depth and insightful investigations into the
cultural grounding of language in several domains and subdisciplines,
including New Englishes such as West African English. This session focusses on
the “global localisation” of African Englishes, i.e. the localisation of the
English language by indigenous populations to encode and express their own
cultural conceptualisations, including their world views. Varieties of English
provide rich data regarding how one and the same language may be associated
with different systems of cultural conceptualisations, and this phenomenon
needs much further examination, in particular from an empirical perspective.
It also has far-reaching implications for the description of these varieties,
i.e. for the compilation of variety-specific dictionaries.

We invite abstracts for presentations on the following sub-themes:

- anthropological linguistics and cognitive linguistics
- language and conceptualisation: the African community model
- the debate of post-colonial English: cultural models of global languages
- rationalist and romantic conceptions of language
- African cultural conceptualisations and linguistic expressions
- cultural linguistics and religion in Africa
- cultural conceptualisations in African Englishes
- cultural linguistics and intercultural communication
- cultural linguistics and linguistic relativity
- multimodality of expression of emotions in African languages 
- embodied conceptualisation of e.g. 'feeling' as compared to the Western
notion of 'emotion'
- embodied cultural metaphors
- the creation of electronic dictionaries in lexicography, computational
linguistics and intercultural communication
 






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