35.2543, Calls: 26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes

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Subject: 35.2543, Calls: 26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes

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Date: 17-Sep-2024
From: Tobias Bernaisch [iawe26 at ang.jlug.de]
Subject: 26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes


Full Title: 26th Conference of the International Association for World
Englishes
Short Title: IAWE26

Date: 25-Jul-2025 - 27-Jul-2025
Location: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Contact Person: Tobias Bernaisch
Meeting Email: iawe26 at ang.jlug.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-giessen.de/iawe26

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

The theme of the 26th conference of the International Association for
World Englishes (IAWE26), which will take place in-person only at
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, July 25–27 2025, is ‘World
Englishes through Space and Time’.

Papers with a focus on regional variation in English are invited –
particularly when they relate to diachronic variability as captured in
the conference theme. Papers can also have a more explicit focus on
any of the conference subthemes listed here.

World Englishes and Applied Linguistics
World Englishes and Corpus Linguistics
World Englishes and Cultural Linguistics
World Englishes and Discourse Analysis
World Englishes and Education
World Englishes and Intercultural Communication
World Englishes and Language Acquisition
World Englishes and Language Contact
World Englishes and Language Pedagogy
World Englishes and Language Policy
World Englishes and Lexicography
World Englishes and Linguistic Landscapes
World Englishes and Linguistic Variation
World Englishes and Multilingualism
World Englishes and (Social) Media
World Englishes and Sociolinguistics
World Englishes and World Literatures
Code-mixing, Code-switching and Translanguaging
English as a Lingua Franca
English as an International Language
English-medium Instruction (EMI) Worldwide
The History of World Englishes
Language and Globalisation
Pidgins and Creoles
Varieties of English


ABSTRACT DEADLINE AND SUBMISSION

Please send your abstract (max. 200 words excluding references) as an
attachment in .docx format to iawe26 at ang.jlug.de until 31 December
2024. At the top of the document, please set out a) your full name, b)
your affiliation, c) whether you hold a PhD and d) whether you wish to
be considered for the Braj B. Kachru Student Award.

IAWE will again present the Braj B. Kachru Student Award for the best
paper from a student at the Association’s international conference.
The award is named in honor of Professor Braj B. Kachru, whose
influential scholarship helped establish the field of world Englishes,
in recognition of his exceptional commitment to student scholarship
throughout his career. This award carries a US $1000.00 prize. A
committee composed of IAWE officers and/or editorial board members of
the journal World Englishes will select and announce the winning paper
at the conference.


PLENARY SPEAKERS

The plenary speakers at IAWE26 and the titles of their talks are
presented here for your information:

Kingsley Bolton (Stockholm University and Ateneo de Manila
University):
World Englishes: Forty Years and Beyond

Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg-Essen and University of
Limerick):
Second-language English: Contact, Core and Communalities

Bernd Kortmann (University of Freiburg):
Grammaticalization in World Englishes and the Future Shape of English
as a World Language

Isabel Pefianco Martin (Ateneo de Manila University):
Translanguaging for Deeper Learning: Embracing Pluricentric Englishes
in the Classroom

Dushyanthi Mendis (University of Colombo):
World Englishes: Into the Future

Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago):
A Uniformitarian Approach to the Kachruvian Concentric Model of World
Englishes


CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND CONTACT

For continuously updated details about the conference, please visit
the conference website (https://www.uni-giessen.de/iawe26) and feel
free to reach out with any questions you may have via
iawe26 at ang.jlug.de.



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