<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">2nd Call for Papers: </b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">5th Workshop on African Sign Languages at WOCAL10 • <a href="http://www.sign.wocal.net/" class="">www.sign.wocal.net</a> </b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Leiden University will host the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL10) on June 7-12, 2021. This conference will feature the 5th consecutive workshop at WOCAL dedicated to research on African sign languages and African signing communities. Presentations and posters will be included on topics that include, but are not limited to: </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• descriptions of African sign languages in any linguistic domain </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> (phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, discourse)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• documentation, preservation, and archiving of African sign languages</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• comparison of African sign languages with other languages within and outside Africa</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages in Africa</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• first and second language acquisition of African sign languages </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• gestural repertoires in Africa </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• ethnographies of African deaf communities</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• cultural practices of deaf African individuals and communities</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• sign language and deaf education in Africa</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">• language policy in African countries as it pertains to sign languages and deaf communities </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Submission information:</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Submit abstracts through the main conference portal on EasyChair. See WOCAL 2nd CfP here: <a href="http://2021.wocal.net/call-for-papers/" class="">http://2021.wocal.net/2nd-call-for-papers/</a> Abstracts may be written (English, French) or signed (International Sign, ASL, LSF). For instructions on how to submit a signed abstract, see here: <a href="http://2021.wocal.net/african-sign-languages-workshop/" class="">http://2021.wocal.net/african-sign-languages-workshop/</a> </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Deadline for submission:</b> November 30, 2020</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Notification of acceptance:</b> January 31, 2021</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Contact:</b> </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">For questions, contact <a href="mailto:wocal.slworkshop@gmail.com" class="">wocal.slworkshop@gmail.com</a> </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Workshop committee:</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Evans Burichani, <i class="">chair</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Yédê Adama Sanogo, <i class="">vice chair</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Hope Morgan, <i class="">secretary</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Victoria Nyst, <i class="">local committee liaison</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Yves Beosso, <i class="">PR, member-at-large</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Local workshop team (Leiden):</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Victoria Nyst</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Hope Morgan</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Timothy Mac-Hadjah</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Mariana Martins</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Marta Morgado</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Anique Schüller</div></body></html>