32.1986, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analys, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 32.1986, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analys, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:20:12
From: Monika Reif [reif at uni-landau.de]
Subject: LAUD 2022 - Multilingualism in Africa

Full Title: LAUD 2022 - Multilingualism in Africa 
Short Title: LAUD 2022 

Date: 08-Aug-2022 - 12-Aug-2022
Location: Landau in der Pfalz, Germany 
Contact Person: Monika Reif
Meeting Email: laud2020 at uni-landau.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/landau/fb6/philologien/anglistik/laudsymposium 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2021 

Meeting Description:

The 39th International LAUD Symposium “Multilingualism in Africa: Language
contact, endangerment and cultural conceptualisation”, originally scheduled
for August 2020, had to be postponed because of Corona-virus concerns. It will
be held August 8 - 12, 2022, at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Landau
campus), Germany. 

Call for Papers: 

Submissions are solicited for theme session presentations which should last
for 20-25 minutes with 5-10 minutes for discussion (maximum 30 minutes total).

All submissions for presentations should be in line with the following
abstract guidelines:
- The deadline for abstracts is June 30, 2021
- Abstracts should be submitted to laud2020 at uni-landau.de
- Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding references and title) and
should not include the authors’ names.
- The subject header of the submission email should read as follows: Abstract
LAUD 2022 – name/s of author/s
- Please provide the following information in the main body of your email: 
name/s of author/s, affiliation/s, email address/es, presentation title,
intended theme session

Notification of acceptance will be given by July 15, 2021.

Theme Sessions:

Theme Session 1: Multilingualism, translanguaging and language contact in
Africa

Potential topics include, but are not restricted to:
 - multilingualism, translanguaging and polyglossia in urban and rural Africa
 - effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the “New World Order”
 - language policy/planning, ideologies and attitudes
 - linguistic landscapes in urban African spaces
 - the sociolinguistics of the city
 - African languages in legislation and policies
 - language contact and diversity: codeswitching, codemixing, borrowing
 - languages of wider communication
 - African sign languages

Theme session 2: Language endangerment and language-in-education policies in
Africa 

Potential topics include, but are not restricted to:
 - early developments: colonial language-in-education policies
 - linguistic implications of colonisation and decolonisation
 - language, ecology and environment (ecolinguistics)
 - linguistic diversity and endangerment: case studies
 - Eurocentrism vs. perspectives from within Africa
 - modernity and the globalisation of English/French: the fate of African
languages
 - language policy, inequity and linguistic human rights
 - critique of the endangered-languages movement: the cost and benefit
approach to language loss
 - the empowerment of African languages
 - feminist language planning: women and voice in Africa
 - attitudes, beliefs and ethnic identity
 - documentary linguistics
 - the place and role of African languages in education (health, economy,
governance, technology, and law)
 - the mother tongue-based education debate
 - media, information technology and language planning

Theme session 3: Cultural Linguistics and varieties of African Englishes

Potential topics include, but are not restricted to:
 - anthropological linguistics and cognitive linguistics
 - language and conceptualisation: the African community model
 - the debate of post-colonial English: cultural models of global languages
 - rationalist and romantic conceptions of language
 - African cultural conceptualisations and linguistic expressions
 - cultural linguistics and religion in Africa
 - cultural conceptualisations in African Englishes
 - cultural linguistics and intercultural communication
 - cultural linguistics and linguistic relativity
 - multimodality of expression of emotions in African languages
 - embodied conceptualisation of e.g. 'feeling' as compared to the Western
notion of 'emotion'
 - embodied cultural metaphors
 - the creation of electronic dictionaries in lexicography, computational
linguistics and intercultural communication

Theme Session 4: Covid-19 discourses in Africa

 - The representation of the pandemic in the African media
 - Linguistic aspects of Corona-related health-care campaigns in Africa
 - The representation of Corona in linguistic landscapes in Africa (bottom-up
and top-down signs)
 - Linguistic manifestations of culture-specific conceptualisations of illness
and diseases in Africa, with Corona as an immediate example

Please see our website for a full description of each theme session:
https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/landau/fb6/philologien/anglistik/laudsymp
osium

Structure:
The Symposium will be organised as plenary sessions for keynote addresses from
invited speakers and thematic parallel sessions for presentations of papers.

Conference fees: 
Regular participants: EUR 90; PhD students & guests: EUR 45

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