36.9, 1st International Conference Of the Cameroon Association of Linguistics (CAL)

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Subject: 36.9, 1st International Conference Of the Cameroon Association of Linguistics (CAL)

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Date: 06-Jan-2025
From: Gabriel Delmon Djomeni [djogadel at yahoo.fr]
Subject: 1st International Conference Of the Cameroon Association of Linguistics (CAL)


Full Title: 1st International Conference Of the Cameroon Association
of Linguistics (CAL)

Date: 10-Sep-2025 - 12-Dec-2024
Location: Douala, Cameroon
Contact Person: Manifi Maxime
Meeting Email: colloqueacl at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Discipline of Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2025

Meeting Description:
Africa, the cradle of a multitude of cultures and languages, stands
out for the richness and diversity of its linguistic heritage. With
over 2,000 spoken languages (Eberhard et al., 2022), the continent is
a veritable linguistic kaleidoscope, where each language carries with
it the history, traditions and world views of a particular human
group. However, this linguistic mosaic faces complex challenges that
jeopardize the survival and enhancement of many languages. Despite the
considerable efforts made over the last few decades to document and
describe African languages, the task remains a major challenge.
Documentation projects have created valuable resources such as
dictionaries, grammars and corpora, but these works still cover a
limited fraction of the continent's linguistic diversity. Many African
languages remain under-documented (Heine and Nurse, 2000), sometimes
with significant gaps in their phonological, morphological and
syntactic description. What's more, the development of writing systems
remains a major challenge for African integration (Mba, 2022).
The first international colloquium of the Cameroon Association of
Linguistics (CAL), organized in partnership with the Department of
African Linguistics, Literature and Civilizations of the University of
Douala, will explore the current challenges of African linguistic
diversity, while highlighting innovative practices and theoretical
advances aimed at its protection and promotion. Paper proposals will
be aligned with the following thematic axes, which are not intended to
be restrictive:
Area 1: Documentation and description of African languages
- Linguistic description
- Development of writing systems
- Creation of linguistic resources (grammars, dictionaries, corpora,
etc.
-Lexicology, terminology, translation.)
- Lexicology, terminology, translation.
Axis 2: African languages and education
- (Bi-)multilingual teaching approaches
- Development of teaching materials and educational resources
- Non-formal education and literacy
Axis 3: Linguistics and development in Africa
- Evaluation of language policies
- African languages and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Linguistics for development
- Linguistic decolonization
Axis 4: Sociolinguistic dynamics and the (re-)vitalization of African
languages
- Social attitudes and representations towards African languages
- Discourse analysis and pragmatics in/of African languages
- African languages in the public sphere and the media
- The African diaspora and linguistic issues
Axis 5: Digital technologies, artificial intelligence and African
languages
- Digital learning environment for African languages
- Artificial intelligence and computational linguistics
- Development of translation technologies and multilingual
applications
Axis 6: Linguistic diversity and cognition
- Language acquisition in multilingual contexts
- Bilingualism, multilingualism and neurocognitive effects
- Linguistic stigmatization and psychological effects
Axis 7: Linguistic diversity and literature
- Literature and linguistic resilience: The challenges of literary
hybridity
- Oral literature and the transmission of cultural values inherent in
languages
- Literary policies and the dissemination of literary works in African
languages
INSTRUCTIONS
• All submission procedures are by email attachments.
  The email title should be “First CAL Conference 2025”.
  The file name (attached abstract) should be:
  Surname_First_Name_Intial(s)_CAL_CONF_1-25
    E.g.: Achidi_N_B_CAL_CONF_1-25.
  Contributions should be sent simultaneously to the following two
addresses:
colloqueacl at gmail.com and maxmanifi at yahoo.fr
• Abstracts for lectures and posters (min. 250 and max. 400 words)
should be submitted in English or French before 30 March 2025
following the format: Times New Roman, size 12, single-spaced. They
should include: the title of the paper/poster, the surname(s) and
first name(s) of the author(s), the home institution, an abstract of
400 words maximum, 3 to 64 keywords, and a short bibliography of 5
references maximum (not included in the total number of words of the
abstract.
• Oral presentations are for (nearly) completed research, for which
30-minute slots will be available (including discussion time and time
for moving between sessions).
• Posters are suitable for work in progress and/or work that requires
personal feedback, and these will be up for the duration of the
conference. During one of the conference days, there is a poster
period during which all other conference activities are blocked so
that attention goes exclusively to looking at and discussing posters.
• No one can be considered for more than one contribution of which
they are the first author (whether lectures or posters).
Anyone may be involved in a second or even a third paper if someone
else is the first author and will be present at the conference as
well.
• Proceedings will be published in the first edition of JOCAL.
• In the formulation of your abstract, please make sure to avoid
non-inclusive language.



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