LINGUIST List 22.4567 Tue Nov 15 2011 FYI: Call: A Book in Honour of Prof Kola Owolabi Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Oye Taiwo , Call: A Book in Honour of Prof Kola Owolabi Message 1: Call: A Book in Honour of Prof Kola Owolabi Date: 13-Nov-2011 From: Oye Taiwo <oyepaultaiwogmail.com> Subject: Call: A Book in Honour of Prof Kola Owolabi E-mail this message to a friend Linguistics and the Glocalisation of African Languages for Sustainable Development: A Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Kola Owolabi Call for Papers Papers are hereby invited from scholars across the globe who may wish to contribute to a festschrift in honour of Professor Kola Owolabi, the Director of the Yorùbá Language Centre, University of Ibadan; a renowned linguist, who has been in the vanguard of engineering the indigenous Nigerian languages, particularly the Yoruba language, to meet the demands of the modern world. The festschrift is to address the broad theme: Linguistics and the Glocalisation of African Languages for Sustainable Development. Guidelines: Prospective authors are to submit papers on basic, applied, action and evaluation research on language policy, language planning, language advocacy and language implementation issues in respect of any of the following sub-themes: - African linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics - African languages in transition: historical, philosophical and cultural perspectives - African languages vis-à-vis foreign languages in the continent: status, forms and functions - The facets of African languages in social life: education, health, agriculture, law, fine art, science and technology, finance, administration, religion, politics and governance - African languages and social communication: the media (electronic, print and symbolic), advertising, music and entertainment and conflict mediation - Computerisation of African languages - The nexus of African languages and literatures - African languages and literatures pedagogy - Language policy, planning, advocacy and implementation: Lessons from projects in (a) Africa and (b) outside Africa - Translation/Interpreting in a multilingual context: challenges and prospects - Lexicography and the challenges confronting African languages Each paper is expected to reflect research problem, aim/purpose and objectives, methodology (data base and theoretical perspective), findings/ demonstration/ application, conclusion and references. The deadline for submission of papers is 31 March, 2012. Acceptance of successful papers will be communicated to authors latest by June 2012. Papers are to be forwarded to any of the following: 1. Prof. Wale Adegbite, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (adewaleadegbiteyahoo.com; aadegbitoauife.edu.ng); +234(0)8034840633, +234(0)8058968456. 2. Dr Ayo Ogunsiji, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (ogunsijioayahoo.com); +234(0)8033939032 3. Dr Oye Taiwo, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (oyepaultaiwogmail.com); + (0)234853506069, +234(0)8098483243. Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Nov-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.