35.1790, Calls: Naijá na Hélélé: Nigerian Pidgin in the global, local and in-between contexts
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Subject: 35.1790, Calls: 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
Full Title: 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 Person: Odirin Abonyi
Meeting Email: abonyi.odirin at gmail.com
Web Site: 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
Call Deadline: 04-Aug-2024
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.
Call for Papers:
This Call for Papers for the Conference themed "Naijá na Hélélé
(meaning Naijá is Incredible) - Nigerian Pidgin in Global, Local and
in-between Contexts," intersects, but is not limited to, the following
major themes and sub-themes:
Major Themes:
Research & Education
Regional Integration
Ideology, Politics & Propaganda
Philosophy, Faith & Religion
Globalism & Nationalism
Gender, Identity & Sexuality
Digital Technologies & Artificial Intelligence
Linguistics, Literature & Media
Pidgins & Creoles in Comparative paradigms
Health & Wellness
Inclusion & Exclusion
Business & Economic Development
Sub-themes:
Sociolinguistics: Contact, Context, Usage, Varieties
and Variations, Attitudes etc.
Academia and Publishing in Naijá
Naijá Language in Sports
Naijá in Language and conflict
Naijá, Digital Humanities & Digital storytelling
Naijá Language Varieties
Naijá Lexicography and Grammar
Naijá Language Research
Naija, West African and World creoles
Metalanguage Development
Translation, Interpreting and Localisation
Orthography Development
Naijá and New Media
Historical and Comparative Naijá
Naijá and the New National language policy
Naijá Language Learning and Teaching
Naijá Curriculum Development
Naijá Corpus Development etc.
Guest Speakers
Kofi Yakpo
Hong Kong University
Keynote Speaker
Emmett Strickland
Paris Nanterre University
Lead Paper Presenter I
Prof. Christine Ofulue
National Open University Abuja
Lead Paper Presenter II
Convener – Naija Language Network
C/o: Professor F. O. Egbokhare
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstract Length: Not more than 250
words
Conference Mode: Hybrid
Presentation Types: Paper and Poster
Submission Deadline: August 4th, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: August 15th, 2024
To Send Submissions, Scan the QR Code below.
Languages of Submissions/Presentations:
Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin), English, and any other Pidgin and Creole
Languages (with Audio-visual translations in English).
Links
Email: naijanaheleleconference2024 at gmail.com
Website: www.naijanahelele.com
Form Link: https://forms.gle/BfsCCc5cLrmugysc7
Conference Registration
Early Birds - Scholars: N20,000
Late Birds - Scholars: N25,000
Fee
Students: N10,000
Local Bank
GT Bank (savings)
Abonyi Odirin Victor
0031516151
Foreign Participants
Early Birds
African Scholars: $80
Non African Scholars: $100
Late Birds
African Scholars: $95
Non African Scholars: $120
Students Fee
African Students: $20
Non African Students: $30
Domiciliary account
GT Bank (USD)
Abonyi Odirin Victor
0749310133
Date: October 2nd - 5th 2024
1st - Arrival
2nd - 4th - Conference
5th - Naiiá Festival Ends
6th - Departure
Venue: Academic Staff Union of Universities Secretariat, University of
Ibadan Extension, Ajibode
For enquiries:
E-mail: abonyi.odirin at gmail.com
Call or Send WhatsApp Chat: +2348166550860
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