33.3808, Calls: General Linguistics/South Africa

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3808. Sun Dec 11 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3808, Calls: General Linguistics/South Africa

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:33:40
From: Charles Haberl [info at ilaword.org]
Subject: 67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association

 
Full Title: 67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association 
Short Title: ILA 67 

Date: 15-Jun-2023 - 18-Jun-2023
Location: KwaDlangezwa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
Contact Person: Mogomme Masoga
Meeting Email: MasogaM at unizulu.ac.za
Web Site: https://www.ilaword.org/04_conference_2023.aspx 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2023 

Meeting Description:

The International Linguistic Association (ILA) will hold its 67th annual
meeting at the University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa, from 15 to 18 June 2023. The theme of the meeting is Rethinking
Language and Linguistics for Liberatory Epistemologies and Ontologies. In
keeping with the ILA tradition, we also invite individual papers or posters on
other areas of linguistics. Each presentation should last no more than thirty
minutes, including time for questions and discussion.

For registration details, please visit the conference website.


Call for Papers:

Renewed calls for the decolonisation of education from the #RhodesMustFall
movement of 2015 and beyond have re-directed the attention of scholars and
public commentators to the often-problematic roles of dominant European
languages such as English in formal education, especially in formerly
colonised countries. The debates, and contestations which that movement has
animated over the past few years have invited closer scrutiny of what
Pennycook and Makoni (2020) identify as “the complicities between applied
linguistics, colonialism, and capitalism”. This foregrounds the immensely
powerful impact – either negative or positive – of language policies and
practices across social, cultural, economic, and political domains. In this
regard, the enduring negative legacies of colonial misclassifications and
mis-standardisation of indigenous languages continue to pose serious
challenges today, to both linguists (applied, socio- and educational
linguists) and language teachers in schools and universities at all levels. 

This means that the need to rethink language and linguistics is urgent
especially in terms of how they can contribute positively to ongoing debates
on decolonisation of education in the formerly colonised world and also
regarding language minorities in the so-called developed countries. There is
an urgent need for alternative codes and an expanded conceptual repertoire to
redress historical linguistic misconceptions and to promote language practices
that recover and enhance African and Global South epistemologies and
ontologies. This is critical to an understanding of knowledge production as “a
territory” (Moetsi, 2016) to which marginalised, formerly colonised,
historically disadvantaged, and excluded people have legitimate claims. New,
liberatory approaches to language and linguistics would enhance the life
chances of such populations by helping reclaim their “self-worth, power and
creativity” in a world that is increasingly hostile to them. 

This international multidisciplinary conference invites papers that explore
such possible approaches from formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, and
applied linguistics. We look forward to presentations that move beyond
dominant monolingual and metalinguistic assumptions and examine new
possibilities in multilingualism, language learning, languages of learning and
teaching (LoLT) in education, literacies, and language rights. We are
particularly interested in perspectives from/about the Global South and
indigenous communities which complicate and question received ways of thinking
about language, literacy, and linguistics. Themes include but are not limited
to: 

- Multilingualism and heritage language practices in Africa. 
- The role of language in the decolonisation of the curriculum. 
- Language and decolonisation of pedagogy. 
- Digital and computational skills in languages and linguistics. 
- English as LoLT in (South) Africa. 
- Standardisation of indigenous languages. 
- Growing use of English as LoLT in non-English speaking European
universities. 
- The political economy of tests such as IELTS and TOEFL. 
- Grassroots language and literary studies. 
- Language acquisition versus language learning. 
- Local language/linguistic practices in global social media 
- Liberatory/emerging language and linguistic epistemologies/theories 

In keeping with the ILA tradition, we also invite individual papers or posters
on other areas of linguistics. Each presentation should last no more than
thirty minutes, including time for questions and discussion. 

Guidelines for Proposals
A paper or poster title and abstract of between 300 and 400 words, excluding
references, is required along with a summary abstract for the conference
booklet of no more than 150 words. The author's name, institutional
affiliation, mailing address, and phone number must also be included.




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