[Corpora-List] CFP: ICAME36: pre-conference workshop on corpus linguistics and linguistic innovations in non-native Englishes

[Samantha Laporte]

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CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC INNOVATIONS IN NON-NATIVE ENGLISHES

Pre-conference workshop to be held at ICAME 36 (http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=52257)
Trier, Germany
Wednesday 27 May 2015

Summary
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In line with the current effort of corpus linguists to reduce the existing paradigm gap between EFL (i.e., foreign English variants) and ESL (i.e., indigenized English varieties), this workshop focuses on the investigation of linguistic innovations across the two non-native English variants. Linguistic innovations have been shown to characterize individual non-native variants across several linguistic domains (e.g. phonology, semantics, morpho-syntax). Indian English, for instance, yields some of its most creative forms and structures on the lexico-grammatical level in speakers' innovative uses of prepositional verbs, ditransitive verbs and light-verb constructions (Mukherjee & Hoffmann 2006; Mukherjee 2010). While identifying such kinds of innovations and distinguishing between errors and innovations is essential to understand if and how New Varieties develop new conventions (Van Rooy 2011), there is often an indeterminacy between what counts as an innovation and what is regarded as an error (Bamgbose 1998). Prevailing theoretical frameworks, such as Kachru's (2006) Three Circles model, have separated EFL and ESL as two distinct variants, norm-dependent and norm-developing, respectively. With this distinction, however, linguistic deviations in EFL, labeled as errors, tend to coincide with those labeled as innovations in ESL (Edwards 2014).
Recent (corpus) studies are beginning to challenge this dividing line between EFL and ESL and the general view that innovations and errors should be divided by institutional status alone (Bruthiaux 2003, Deshors 2014, Edwards 2014, Gilquin 2011, Laporte 2012, Li & Mahboob 2012). By (i) recognizing shared innovations across the EFL and ESL variants and (ii) showing how English plays an increasing role in identity construction and transcends its typical EFL functions, those studies present EFL users as creative speakers. They also raise the question of the suitability of theoretical frameworks based on history and geographical legacy to accommodate discussions of language varieties (Bruthiaux 2003, Li & Mahboob 2012).
In this context, this workshop provides a meeting ground for scholars seeking to bring new methodological, empirical and theoretical insights to innovations in non-native Englishes. We particularly welcome

(i) corpus-based case studies exemplifying the lexical/morphological/syntactic creativity of EFL and ESL speakers,
(ii) papers seeking to explore the methodological issues related to the corpus-based study of innovations and,
(iii) papers seeking to go beyond the prevailing theoretical models.
Abstracts for this workshop should be 400 to 500 words long (excluding references). They should be submitted by e-mail to linguisticinnovations2015 at gmail.com<mailto:linguisticinnovations2015 at gmail.com> by 1st February 2015. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 15 February.
 References
Bruthiaux, Paul. 2003. Squaring the circles: issues in modeling English worldwide. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 13(2):159-178.
Deshors, Sandra C. 2014. A case for a unified treatment of EFL and ESL: A multifactorial approach. English World-Wide 35(3):279-307.
Edwards, Alison. 2014. The progressive aspect in the Netherlands and the ESL/EFL continuum. World Englishes 33(2):173-194.
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle. 2011. Corpus linguistics to bridge the gap between World Englishes and Learner Englishes. Communicación en el siglo XXI vol. II, Centro de Lingüística aplicada: Santiago de Cuba: 638-642.
http://dial.academielouvain.be/handle/boreal:112509?site_name=UCL (accessed 28 July 2014)
Kachru, Braj B. 2006. World Englishes and culture wars. In Braj. B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru & Cecil L. Nelson (eds.), The handbook of World Englishes. UK: Blackwell Publishing, 446-471.
Laporte, Samantha. 2012. Mind the gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the making. English Text Construction 5(2):265-292.
Li, Eden and Ahmar Mahboob. 2012. English today: forms, functions, and uses. Hong Kong: Pearson Education.
Mukherjee, Joybrato. 2010. Corpus-based insights into verb-complementational innovations in Indian English: cases of nativised semantico-structural analogy. In Alexandra N. Lenz & Albrecht Plewnia (eds.),
Grammar between norm and variation. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 219-241.
Mukherjee, Joybrato and Sebastian Hoffmann. 2006. Describing verb-complementational profiles of new Englishes: a pilot study of Indian English. English World-Wide 27(2): 147-173.
Van Rooy, Bertus. 2011. A principled distinction between error and conventionalized innovation in African Englishes. In Marianne Hundt & Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.), Exploring second-language and learner
Englishes: bridging the paradigm gap. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 189-208.

Important Dates
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* Submission Due: 1 February 2015
* Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2015
* Workshop: 27 May 2015

Convenors
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* Sandra C. Deshors (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces)
* Sandra Götz (Justus Liebig University, Giessen)
* Samantha Laporte (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)

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