32.2189, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analys, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 32.2189, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analys, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:51:43
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: 10-Jul-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.


Second 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 July 10, 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




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