LINGUIST List 22.3264 Tue Aug 16 2011 FYI: Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Rotimi Taiwo , Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse Message 1: Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse Date: 16-Aug-2011 From: Rotimi Taiwo <ferotaiyahoo.com> Subject: Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse E-mail this message to a friend Call for Book Contributions: Pragmatics of African English in Digital Discourse Editors: Innocent Chiluwa, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria; Presley Ifukor, University of Osnabrueck, Germany & Rotimi Taiwo, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria The proposed publication aims at harnessing research results in the pragmatics of the varieties of English in Africa in the context of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). We encourage papers representing current state of the art research in linguistics/discourse pragmatics seen in the broad sense as a functional (i.e. social and cultural) perspective on digital discourse. We invite scholars doing research in any of the varieties of new world Englishes particularly of African origin (e.g. Nigerian English, Cameroonian English, Kenyan English, South African English, Sierra Leonean English, Kenyan English, Tanzanian English etc) and CMC to submit proposals in the following subject areas: - Electronic Mailing (Email) - Instant Messaging (IM) - Internet Relay Chats (IRC) - Text messaging (SMS) - Blogging - Discussion forum - Virtual community - YouTube - Twitter - Facebook, etc. Papers should highlight features of African English and show how these manifest in any of the above forms of CMC applying the following pragmatic principles/approaches: - speech act theory - Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean analysis of linguistic performance - relevance theory - (im)politeness - pragmatic presupposition - deixis - intercultural pragmatics etc. Submission Procedure: Interested scholars and researchers are encouraged to submit a one- page chapter proposal on or before November 30, 2011, clearly stating the purpose of the chapter, its contents and how the proposed chapter meets the overall objectives of the proposed publication. A proposal should include the following information: (a) Title of chapter (b) Name of author(s), (c) Affiliation (d) Email Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 31, 2011. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until March 31, 2012 to prepare their chapters of 5,000-7,000 words. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. The book is tentatively scheduled to be published in third quarter of 2012 by one of Europe’s top language series publishers. Please e-mail all inquiries and proposal submissions to: robinebergmail.com Full contact: Dr Innocent Chiluwa Department of Languages, Covenant University, Ota Nigeria +234 803 353 6952 Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Aug-2011       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.