35.1789, Confs: Naijá na Hélélé: Nigerian Pidgin in the global, local and in-between contexts

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Subject: 35.1789, Confs: Naijá na Hélélé: Nigerian Pidgin in the global, local and in-between contexts

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Date: 14-Jun-2024
From: Waya Helele [Naijanaheleleconference2024 at gmail.com]
Subject: Naijá na Hélélé: Nigerian Pidgin in the global, local and in-between contexts

Naijá na Hélélé: Nigerian Pidgin in the global, local and in-between
contexts

Date: 02-Oct-2024 - 05-Oct-2024
Location: University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Contact: Odirin Abonyi
Contact Email: abonyi.odirin at gmail.com
Meeting URL: naijanahelele.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Lexicography; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Pidgin, Nigerian (pcm)
Language Family(ies): African Pidgins and Creoles

Meeting Description:

Naijá  (a.k.a. Nigerian Pidgin) has evolved over the last few decades
to become the largest spoken and perhaps the most influential language
in Nigeria. The current estimate of its speakers and users is placed
at about 150 million with distribution across various continents. As a
result of its mutual intelligibility with other West African Pidgins,
it holds great potential as a veritable language for regional
integration and sustainable development in the face of climate change
and other environmental concerns.

The efforts of early Nigerian Pidgin linguists such as Mafeni (1971),
Agheyisi (1971), Marchese and Shnukal (1981), Elugbe (1983), Elugbe
and Omamor (1984, 1991), Mann (1984, 1993), Faraclas (1989, 1994) has
contributed significantly to the diachronic, sociolinguistic,
morphosyntactic description of Naijá. Since the turn of the
Millennium, others have made contributions in studies related to its
syntactic shifts, its prosodic paradigms, and its discursive trends
and ideologies as observable in its use in literature, in
entertainment and Nigerian Stand up Comedy especially, in the
broadcast media for news/sports commentary and on air presentations,
in Nigerian Hip Hop or Afrobeats as a revivalist trend reminiscent of
Fela’s Yabbis songs of the 70s and 80s, in religious literature
including Bible translations, and now as a language of the monolingual
offline Naijá Dictionary (2024), and its online version Naijionary.

In the course of the last decades, the interventions for sustaining
the growth of Naijá have been more individuated than coordinated
through a synergy among users and practitioners in the different
domains mentioned above. The institution of the Naijá Language Project
(now defunct) in a 2009 Conference has until now been the major
collaboration that brought its users and practitioners under an
umbrella to forge the development of Naijá. The objectives of the
Naijá Language Project were:
 to research, facilitate research and/or publish research on the
nature of Naijá (including scientific articles, journals, books,
dictionaries etc)
to develop a standard and acceptable writing system/orthography for
Naijá
 to document, publish and/or facilitate the development of scholarly
and non-scholarly, literary and non-literary materials on Naijá
to establish a scientific committee to govern and facilitate sound and
original research on any aspect of Naijá
to develop a method for teaching and learning the Naijá language

These objectives remain unexplored to their fullest, necessitating
this Conference which is an initiative designed to create an
interactive forum for researchers, translators, language
technologists, teachers, journalists, artistes and artists,
skitmakers, poets, playwrights, policy makers, and many others. Its
goal is to harness the growth of Naijá thus far and chart its further
advancement under an umbrella body with members drawn from various
communities in Nigeria, West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa,
the rest of the world.

Date: October 2nd - 5th 2024
1st - Arrival
2nd: Opening Ceremony  and Keynote Address
3rd: Lead Paper 1; Plenary sessions; Discussion Forum Panel 1 and
Performances
4th - Lead Paper 2; Plenary sessions; Discussion Forum Panel 2 and
Performances
5th - General Assembly holds; Plenary sessions and Command Performance
6th - Departure
Venue: Academic Staff Union of Universities Secretariat, University of
Ibadan Extension, Ajibode

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