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paprika.mwc.edu>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* * Gullah: A Linguistic Legacy of Africans in America * * A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of * * _Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect_ * ********************************************************* Friday, November 3, 2000 Howard University Washington, DC *Invited Speakers:* * Dr. Salikoko S. Mufwene, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago * Dr. John R. Rickford, Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford University In 1949 Lorenzo Dow Turner, the first African American linguist, published _Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect_. This work, still considered a "monument of scholarship," convinced the academic establishment of the many African elements found in Gullah, where previous studies, not based on fieldwork, had either observed only a minimal African influence or denied it altogether. Now, around the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Turner's work, is an appropriate time for: * a contemporary assessment of the state of the art of Gullah language studies and * a celebration and popularization of Turner's linguistic contributions Papers are invited relating to any of the following themes: * Linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the Gullah language * Comparison of and/or relationship between Gullah and African American Vernacular English * Comparison of and/or relationship between Gullah and Caribbean or African creoles * Assessment of Lorenzo Dow Turner's linguistic scholarship Papers which relate the linguistic significance of Gullah to a general academic audience of students and faculty are also welcome. Papers should be 15 minutes long, plus 5 minutes for discussion. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: June 1, 2000 by 5 p.m. Late submissions will not be considered. Abstracts, including bibliography (if needed) and examples, must not exceed 500 words and must fit on one side of the page. Be sure to include the title of the abstract. Do not put your name on the abstract or include any information that identifies you as the author. Please send eight copies of the abstract for anonymous review. Faxed or e-mailed abstracts will not be accepted. In addition, send a 3"x5" card listing: 1. paper title; 2. name(s) of author(s); 3. affiliation(s) of author(s); 4. e-mail address to which notification of acceptance or rejection should be sent. 5. postal addresses for the summer and fall of 2000 6. primary author's office and home phone numbers; 7. primary author's e-mail address, if available. 8. whether this paper is targeted toward specialists (linguists) or general audience An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated. Please send abstracts to: Gullah Conference c/o Dr. Paul D. Fallon Department of English 248 Locke Hall Howard University 2441 6th St., NW Washington, DC 20059 Contacts for further information: e-mail: pfallonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
student.uq.edu.au>[In issue# 11.1115, this message was posted under the subfield of Computers and Language. It should have been Sociolinguistics] Call for Contributions to the 'Chat' issue of M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture Edited by Felicity Meakins and Sean Rintel Feature Writer: Charles Antaki M/C (Media/Culture) is an electronic journal of media and culture published by the Department of English Media and Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Queensland in Australia. Established in 1998, M/C has successfully grown in international standing among serious internet journals. Please visit the site (http://english.uq.edu.au/mc/cover.html) to read through the latest issue and for more information. Each issue of M/C is themed. For the issue released on the 23rd of August, the theme is 'Chat' and the feature writer is Charles Antaki. The M/C 'Chat' issue is intended to be as broad a survey of the mechanics, media, contexts and analysis of chat as possible. Robert Hopper once described argued chat as technology - "humanmade instrumentality that partially restructures the world." Hopper's notion is an excellent starting point for the 'Chat' issue of M/C, devoted to the exploration of this most pervasive of discursive modes, and, indeed, to the reflexive exploration of how researchers analyse chat. How does the technology of talk work, and what happens when talk is itself mediated by other technologies? In what sense is chat "humanmade"? What parts of the world can be restructured by chat, and how is this accomplished? In M/C 'Chat' , any chat artefacts - semantic, syntactic, phatic, contextual - may be put under the microscope. The artefacts and underpinnings of the analysis of chat, as themselves partially restructuring of the world, may also be highlighted in this issue. Methodology and ideology of analysis certainly shape the understandings of chat, particularly if those understandings are argued to be of practical significance. What results might inductive, deductive or adductive approaches to chat analysis provide, and how might they be compared and contrasted? Similar questions could be asked of qualitative and quantitative analysis. Are combinatory approaches viable? Of course the next question becomes, not how chat restructures the world, but what world it restructures. The world exists as a fractured entity, both in the way we understand it, and in the way it breaks down along cultural, social and relational lines. How do two people chat when their perceptions of the world are inherently different? How much of this represented information is mutual? In what ways does chat create ethnic groups, perpetuate racism, sexism and ageism or generally signify the other? How is it that we can swear at close friends and not at our superiors? Chat, in these situations becomes a point of mediation between the world and self - a highly constructed moment. But what happens when chat itself is mediated? What happens to the world as we know it? And to turn Hopper's statement on its head, we can ask how does the world structure our chat? Why does a person who has been living in a foreign country for 40 years still have an accent? When does "You saw that gas can explode" become a declaration about gas exploding or a can exploding. Who does "you" refer to. It seems obvious, but "you" in isolation is meaningless. It seems that meaning sought from the world also enriches our chat. Articles are due by the 24th of July 2000. M/C 'Chat' will be released on the 23rd of August 2000. Contributors are directed to previous issues of M/C (http://english.uq.edu.au/mc/cover.html) for article length and style guidelines. Please direct submissions to Sean Rintel (s.rintelMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue