22.3264, FYI: Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse

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Date: 16-Aug-2011
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Subject: Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse
 

	
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Subject: Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse

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Call for Book Contributions:
Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse

Editors:
Innocent Chiluwa, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria; Presley Ifukor, 
University of Osnabrueck, Germany & Rotimi Taiwo, Obafemi Awolowo 
University, Ife, Nigeria

The proposed publication aims at harnessing research results in the 
pragmatics of the varieties of English in Africa in the context of 
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). We encourage papers 
representing current state of the art research in linguistics/discourse 
pragmatics seen in the broad sense as a functional (i.e. social and 
cultural) perspective on digital discourse.

We invite scholars doing research in any of the varieties of new world 
Englishes particularly of African origin (e.g. Nigerian English, 
Cameroonian English, Kenyan English, South African English, Sierra 
Leonean English, Kenyan English, Tanzanian English etc) and CMC to 
submit proposals in the following subject areas:

- Electronic Mailing (Email) 
- Instant Messaging (IM)
- Internet Relay Chats (IRC)
- Text messaging (SMS)
- Blogging
- Discussion forum
- Virtual community
- YouTube
- Twitter
- Facebook, etc. 

Papers should highlight features of African English and show how 
these manifest in any of the above forms of CMC applying the following 
pragmatic principles/approaches:
- speech act theory
- Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean analysis of linguistic 
performance
- relevance theory
- (im)politeness 
- pragmatic presupposition 
- deixis
- intercultural pragmatics etc.

Submission Procedure: 
Interested scholars and researchers are encouraged to submit a one-
page chapter proposal on or before November 30, 2011, clearly stating 
the purpose of the chapter, its contents and how the proposed chapter 
meets the overall objectives of the proposed publication. A proposal 
should include the following information:

(a) Title of chapter
(b) Name of author(s), 
(c) Affiliation
(d) Email 

Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Authors 
of accepted proposals will be notified by December 31, 2011. Upon 
acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until March 31, 2012 
to prepare their chapters of 5,000-7,000 words. All submitted chapters 
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Guidelines for 
preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. The 
book is tentatively scheduled to be published in third quarter of 2012 
by one of Europe's top language series publishers.

Please e-mail all inquiries and proposal submissions to: 
robineber at gmail.com 

Full contact:
Dr Innocent Chiluwa
Department of Languages, 
Covenant University, Ota
Nigeria
+234 803 353 6952 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics





 







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