34.809, Calls: 67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association

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Subject: 34.809, Calls: 67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association

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From: Charles Haberl [info at ilaword.org]
Subject: 67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association


Full Title: 67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic
Association
Short Title: ILA 67

Date: 15-Jun-2023 - 18-Jun-2023
Location: KwaDlangezwa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Contact Person: Mogomme Masoga
Meeting Email: MasogaM at unizulu.ac.za
Web Site: https://www.ilaword.org/04_conference_2023.aspx

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2023

Meeting Description:

The International Linguistic Association (ILA) will hold its 67th
annual meeting at the University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa,
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, from 15 to 18 June 2023. The theme of the
meeting is Rethinking Language and Linguistics for Liberatory
Epistemologies and Ontologies. In keeping with the ILA tradition, we
also invite individual papers or posters on other areas of
linguistics. Each presentation should last no more than thirty
minutes, including time for questions and discussion.

For registration details, please visit the conference website.

2nd Call for Papers:

Renewed calls for the decolonisation of education from the
#RhodesMustFall movement of 2015 and beyond have re-directed the
attention of scholars and public commentators to the often-problematic
roles of dominant European languages such as English in formal
education, especially in formerly colonised countries. The debates,
and contestations which that movement has animated over the past few
years have invited closer scrutiny of what Pennycook and Makoni (2020)
identify as “the complicities between applied linguistics,
colonialism, and capitalism”. This foregrounds the immensely powerful
impact – either negative or positive – of language policies and
practices across social, cultural, economic, and political domains. In
this regard, the enduring negative legacies of colonial
misclassifications and mis-standardisation of indigenous languages
continue to pose serious challenges today, to both linguists (applied,
socio- and educational linguists) and language teachers in schools and
universities at all levels.

This means that the need to rethink language and linguistics is urgent
especially in terms of how they can contribute positively to ongoing
debates on decolonisation of education in the formerly colonised world
and also regarding language minorities in the so-called developed
countries. There is an urgent need for alternative codes and an
expanded conceptual repertoire to redress historical linguistic
misconceptions and to promote language practices that recover and
enhance African and Global South epistemologies and ontologies. This
is critical to an understanding of knowledge production as “a
territory” (Moetsi, 2016) to which marginalised, formerly colonised,
historically disadvantaged, and excluded people have legitimate
claims. New, liberatory approaches to language and linguistics would
enhance the life chances of such populations by helping reclaim their
“self-worth, power and creativity” in a world that is increasingly
hostile to them.

This international multidisciplinary conference invites papers that
explore such possible approaches from formal linguistics,
sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. We look forward to
presentations that move beyond dominant monolingual and metalinguistic
assumptions and examine new possibilities in multilingualism, language
learning, languages of learning and teaching (LoLT) in education,
literacies, and language rights. We are particularly interested in
perspectives from/about the Global South and indigenous communities
which complicate and question received ways of thinking about
language, literacy, and linguistics. Themes include but are not
limited to:

- Multilingualism and heritage language practices in Africa.
- The role of language in the decolonisation of the curriculum.
- Language and decolonisation of pedagogy.
- Digital and computational skills in languages and linguistics.
- English as LoLT in (South) Africa.
- Standardisation of indigenous languages.
- Growing use of English as LoLT in non-English speaking European
universities.
- The political economy of tests such as IELTS and TOEFL.
- Grassroots language and literary studies.
- Language acquisition versus language learning.
- Local language/linguistic practices in global social media
- Liberatory/emerging language and linguistic epistemologies/theories

In keeping with the ILA tradition, we also invite individual papers or
posters on other areas of linguistics. Each presentation should last
no more than thirty minutes, including time for questions and
discussion. This year’s conference will accommodate both in-person and
hybrid (synchronous videoconferencing) contributions. Please indicate
your preferred modality when you register.



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