23.4139, Calls: English, Socioling, Language Acquisition, Typology/Finland

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Subject: 23.4139, Calls: English, Socioling, Language Acquisition, Typology/Finland

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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:15:49
From: Ray Carey [changing-english at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Changing English: Contacts & Variation

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Full Title: Changing English: Contacts & Variation 
Short Title: ChangE 2013 

Date: 10-Jun-2013 - 12-Jun-2013
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Ray Carey
Meeting Email: changing-english at helsinki.fi
Web Site: http://www.helsinki.fi/globe13 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 26-Nov-2012 

Meeting Description:

The spread of English to virtually all parts of the world has brought along completely new challenges to the research into it. Instead of the traditional canons of English studies, a variety of approaches and methods is now required to describe and explain the linguistic, educational and other problems arising from the status of English as a world language used daily by hundreds of millions of people from very different backgrounds.

The GlobE (Global English) consortium is a collaborative project funded by the Academy of Finland and made up of researchers from the universities of Helsinki, Tampere, and Eastern Finland. We are pleased to announce a conference entitled 'Changing English: Contacts & Variation' to be held on June 10-12, 2013, at the University of Helsinki. Like our research consortium, the conference will combine multiple approaches to the challenge of addressing current issues in English as a global language. 

'Changing English: Contacts & Variation' focuses on English as a world language used daily by hundreds of millions of people from very different backgrounds. The position of English as a lingua franca in the present-day world means that it enters into constant contact with virtually every other major language in the world. This, in turn, leads to accelerated change and variation in English itself. 

These processes will be examined in light of recent advances made in four hitherto rather separate lines of research:

Contact linguistics
Typology
English as a lingua franca (ELF)
Second-language acquisition (SLA)

Combining these approaches helps to describe and explain the ongoing changes and the emerging characteristics of Global English. Our invited plenary speakers further reflect these diverse fields of inquiry:

Zhiming Bao, National University of Singapore 
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton 
Christian Mair, University of Freiburg 
Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town 
Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna 
Donald Winford, Ohio State University 

2nd Call for Papers: 

Abstracts of 150-200 words (excluding references) may be submitted via the conference website (http://www.helsinki.fi/globe13) through November 26, 2012. Presentation formats will be 20 minutes with five minutes for questions and discussion (25 minutes total). Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by the scientific committee, and the conference language will be English. For more information on the conference, please see the conference website.
 
On behalf of the organising committee, 

Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki 
Markku Filppula, University of Eastern Finland 
Juhani Klemola, University of Tampere 

Contact: changing-english at helsinki.fi 
http://www.helsinki.fi/globe13






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