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Subject: 21.2778, Calls: French, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: 29-Jun-2010
From: Zsuzsanna Fagyal < zsfagyal at illinois.edu >
Subject: New Francophonies and Colonial Languages
 

	
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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:09:40
From: Zsuzsanna Fagyal [zsfagyal at illinois.edu]
Subject: New Francophonies and Colonial Languages

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Full Title: New Francophonies and Colonial Languages 
Short Title: NFCL 

Date: 07-Apr-2011 - 09-Apr-2011
Location: Urbana, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Zsuzsanna Fagyal
Meeting Email: zsfagyal at illinois.edu
Web Site: http://www.french.uiuc.edu/conferences/francophonies/index.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Meeting Description:

New Francophonies and Colonial Languages in a Global World 
Nouvelles francophonies et langues coloniales dans un monde global 

April 7-9, 2011
Department of French
School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Keynote speakers: 
Professor Emeritus Albert Valdman, Indiana University 
Professor Sylvie Dubois, Louisiana State University 
Professor Françoise Lionnet, University of California Los Angeles 

Languages: English and French

Organizers: Adlai Murdoch and Zsuzsanna Fagyal, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign

The term 'francophonie' implies both language and literature produced in 
historical times and places. This interdisciplinary conference grows out of an 
interest in borders, boundaries, points of interface, and mixing between 
languages and communities, as well as genres, disciplines, and paradigms. It 
will consider ways in which French and other former colonial language 
communities imagine themselves through culture, where we understand culture as 
a means of expressing identity in and through spoken and written discourse, 
literature, drama, and music. Participants are encouraged to bridge 
disciplinary boundaries in order to find fresh entries into questions such as:

- How many francophonies are there, and in what ways do they articulate 
themselves in different places?
- To what extent are there geographical and historical links between spaces of 
speaking and writing and those of representation, and how (if at all) they 
influence each other? 
- What is the importance of linguistic in-betweens and cultural hybridity 
(vehicular languages, code-switching) in a global French context? 
- What importance should be accorded to France's colonial presence and 
continuing influence in many of communities? 
- What are the benefits and limitations of holding an official policy towards 
language, and how does actual usage test the boundaries of such official 
policies over time? 
- What are the benefits and limitations of academic standards, practices and 
policies with regard to language divisions, and how will these issues shape the 
future of graduate studies? 

Call for Papers
New Francophonies and Colonial Languages in a Global World 
Nouvelles francophonies et langues coloniales dans un monde global 

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 15, 2010 

Papers may be given in English or in French. Submissions should be sent 
electronically in either of the two languages both as text (in the body of the 
email) and as MSWord attachment to the following e-mail address: 
newfrancophonies at gmail.com.

Presentations selected for the conference will be considered for publication in 
one or more edited volumes and/or journal special issues.

All submissions must contain the following information: 
- Name 
- Affiliation 
- E-mail address 
- Mailing address, phone and fax number 
- Title of proposed paper
- Brief description of same (max. 500 words, without title and references)




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