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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3026. Tue Oct 06 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3026, Calls: Gen Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:46:16
From: Jenneke van der Wal [g.j.van.der.wal at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: World Congress of African Linguistics

 
Full Title: World Congress of African Linguistics 
Short Title: WOCAL 

Date: 08-Jun-2021 - 11-Jun-2021
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Maarten Mous
Meeting Email: call at hum.leidenuniv.nl
Web Site: http://2021.wocal.net/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

Language plays a vital role in our societies that are more and more shaped by
communication and information, and Africa is no exception. As languages
provide the framework for interpreting the world, African languages can
contribute tremendously to our understanding of how people communicate and how
language structures this interaction. Only by using African languages in all
spheres of social life in African societies does communication become
inclusive and information truly accessible to all and lead to reducing 
inequality and establishing sustainable societies. African linguistics has a
key role to play in helping to bring this about.


Second Call for Papers: 
(including call for submissions to workshops)

Theme: African languages for sustainable societies and knowledge creation

We invite contributions on all African languages including sign languages;
synchronic and diachronic studies, literatures in African languages; all
subdisciplines of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis,
psycholinguistics, language planning and policy, language documentation; and
applied and educational linguistics.

Program organisation:
We envisage 5 plenary speakers, followed by pitches for posters, and 8-10
parallel sessions. Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by 5 minutes
discussion and 5 minutes for changing rooms. Poster sessions will take place
during lunch and coffee/tea breaks. We select abstracts to accommodate
maximally 400 papers.
The papers for the General Sessions will be organised as much as possible in
logical sessions so as to make all fields of African linguistics visible.

Workshops:
The following workshops have been proposed and will take place during WOCAL10:
- Centering pragmatic phenomena on the margins in African languages (Felix
Ameka f.k.ameka at hum.leidenuniv.nl - code PRAG)
- Decomposing tones in African languages (Yiya Chen
yiya.chen at hum.leidenuniv.nl - code TONE)
- Metaphor in youth language (Thabo Ditsele ditsele at hotmail.com - code YOUT)
- The causal-noncausal alternation in African languages Sebastian Dom
sebdom.academia at outlook.com - code CAUS)
- African Sign Languages (Hope Morgan and Victoria Nyst
wocal.slworkshop at gmail.com - code SILA)
- Associated motion in African languages Bastian Persohn
persohn.linguistics at gmail.com - code ASMO)
- Let’s turn to policy (Bert van Pinxteren bert.van.pinxteren at upcmail.nl -
code POLI)
- Bantu universals and variation (Jenneke van der Wal
g.j.van.der.wal at hum.leidenuniv.nl - code BANT)

The full descriptions of the workshops can be found on the WOCAL 10 website
(http://2021.wocal.net). Researchers who wish to participate in any of these
workshops should submit their abstracts through the WOCAL 10 EasyChair link
and they should indicate the workshop code in the “keywords” field. 
Researchers are encouraged to contact the organisers of the workshops should
they have any questions and for further information. 

We are looking into options for on-line streaming and on-line presentations
for those who cannot be physically present.

Conference time/dates:
Conference: June 8, 9, 10, 11 2021
Arrival and registration day: June 7
After WOCAL social events: June 12

Submission deadlines:
Abstract: Due November 30, 2020
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2021

Abstract submission guidelines:
All abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wocal10

Individuals can choose to propose abstracts for contributions in one of the
following categories:
(i) Oral/signed paper presentation
(ii) Poster presentations (authors of posters selected will give 2-minute
pitches about their posters at plenary sessions before poster viewing).
Please indicate your preference for paper or poster in the keywords field of
your abstract submission. Papers proposed for workshops should also indicate
the code for the workshop in the “keywords” field, e.g. TONE. 

Written abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words. Abstracts may also be
submitted in International sign language in a video no longer than 5 minutes;
see http://2021.wocal.net/african-sign-languages-workshop/ for further
instructions.
Due to heavy competition for slots in the WOCAL10 programme no one individual
can be considered for more than one contribution for which they are a first
(or sole) author.

Further information: call at hum.leidenuniv.nl




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