LINGUIST List 21.4985 Thu Dec 09 2010 Calls: English, Discourse Analysis, Ling & Lit, Socioling/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     David Bowie , Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric Message 1: Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric Date: 09-Dec-2010 From: David Bowie <david.bowieuaa.alaska.edu> Subject: Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric Date: 25-Feb-2011 - 26-Feb-2011 Location: Anchorage, Alaska, USA Contact Person: Jamet Woods Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English Call Deadline: 07-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: Organized by Department of English graduate students at UAA, the 16th annual Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric examines the relationships among identity, language, and pedagogy in the context of world Englishes. Call for Papers: Organized by Department of English graduate students at the University of Alaska Anchorage, the 16th annual Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric welcomes proposals in literary studies, composition and rhetoric, linguistics, history, anthropology, and other related fields. This year's conference examines the relationships among identity, language, and pedagogy in the context of world Englishes. In ''English worldwide,'' David Crystal poses the question, ''What happens to a language when it is spoken by many times more people as a second or foreign language than as a mother tongue?'' We seek to explore the implications of English's role as an arguably global lingua franca: for instance, what are the cultural and linguistic consequences of English's use in facilitating the development of global technologies and sciences, or in furnishing international political proceedings with a common dialogic space? The following represents a sample of potential presentation topics: Literature in World English Cultural neutrality Opposition: cultural imperialism Local uses, local identities Many Englishes: dialects, global and local Englishes Dual standard: commoditization of standardized English Multicultural identities Post‐colonial approaches to texts The evolution of international English The English Internet Science and technology Multilingual learning English only movements Stories of English Individual paper proposals: Please send a 500 word abstract for 20‐minute papers, including the title of the paper; presenter's name and institutional affiliation; mailing address, phone and fax number, and e‐mail address. Panel proposals: In addition to providing detailed contact information for each panel member, please send an abstract (700 words max.) summarizing the panel's rationale and describing each paper. Submit proposals to pacrimconference2011gmail.com by January 7, 2011. Please direct questions to: Peter Kudenov and Jamet Woods, Conference Directors Department of English, ADM 101D, University of Alaska Anchorage 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508 (907) 768‐4826 pacrimconference2011gmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.