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English and Digital Linguistics
Digital English World-Wide: Focus on Africa and Beyond
celebrating
40 years of fieldwork on "English in Africa"
30 years of "English in Africa" in Chemnitz
20 years of collaboration with/through Alexander von Humboldt
This small international conference gathers three groups of researchers:
Chemnitz graduate students and international ERASMUS partners,
international (post-)graduates funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and the DAAD, and
African Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Researchers from all over Germany and their hosts.
Together we would like to show that empirical studies in language variation are a fascinating topic when they emphasize cultural dimensions of (Digital) English around the world. We try to combine socio-, corpus- and cognitive-linguistic perspectives and stress multiple methodological approaches to current research and applications, especially in English language teaching and academic writing.
Additional social events:
Conference warming Thursday, July 13, 7 pm from the Hotel to Turmbräuhaus
Library and city tour Friday, July 14, 10 am from the Hotel
Political and Health Discourses in Africa
(Chair: Tunde Ope-Davies, Lagos, Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Chemnitz)
Paul Onanuga (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Chemnitz): Language and Gendered Identity Politics: Exploring Nigerian Female Popular Music Artistes’ Lyrical Rivalry and Digital Fandom Discourses
Daniel Nkemleke (Cameroon + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Chemnitz): “On the appointment of our son and brother as Prime Minister...“: Discourse Analysis of Messages of thanks to the President in Cameroon English
Rowland Amaefula (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Mainz):Digital Skits and Gender Non-conformance in Nigeria
Saheed Okesola (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Freiburg): Public Health Awareness Campaigns in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and Linguistic Rights in Nigeria
18:00
Dinner: Authentic German Buffet
Saturday, 15 July
9:00
Media, Literature, and Society in Africa I
(Chair: Ibukun Filani, Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Chemnitz)
Daniela Kneißl (Head of Africa Division at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation): Alexander von Humboldt Support for Africa: A Survey
Adeiza Isiaka, Sven Albrecht, Marina Ivanova (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Greifswald; Chemnitz): Igbo and Yoruba English Vowel Spaces Compared
Olubunmi Oyemade (University of Ibadan & + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Münster):Encoding Attitude in Nigerian English Intonation
Tunde Ope-Davies (University of Lagos, Nigeria):Reframing Online Civic Engagement through Digital Multilingual Political Discourse in Nigeria
Ayodele Osisanwo (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Lüneburg): They Kill, Maim and Kidnap for Ransom: A Corpus-based Study of the Representations of Abductors in the Nigerian Newspapers
Ezekiel Olajimbiti (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Lüneburg): Deixis as Markers of "Others" in Street Children's Discourses in Southwestern Nigerian
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Media, Literature, and Society in Africa II
(Chair: Paul Onanuga, Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Chemnitz)
Tolulope Akinseye (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Hamburg): "Domestic Violence is a Monster": The Representation of Metaphors and Patterns of Violence in Nigerian Female Victims' Narratives on Facebook
Ibukun Filani (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Chemnitz): Play and Humour in African Online Skits
Oluwole Coker (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Potsdam): Rethinking African Science Fiction in the Digital Age
Tanaka Chidora (Zimbabwe + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Frankfurt):Writing in Shonglish: Personal Reflections
13:00
Syrian Buffet Lunch
14:00
Digital Innovation in Language Studies: The Global Perspective (hybrid via LINK BBB)
(Chair: Nebojša Radić, Cambridge, UK)
Odunayo Clement Adebooye (Vice Chancellor, Osun State University, Nigeria):AGNES
Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi (Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria): A Corpus-Based Exploration of Cross-Sex Debates in Nigeria’s Senate
Herbert Igboanusi (Ibadan, Nigeria): My research on the varieties of English and the TU Chemnitz connection
Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (Ilorin, Nigeria): Digital Multilingual Teaching in Nigeria
Mohammed Ademilokun (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria):Discursive Strategies in Newspaper Opinion Discourse on End SARS Protests in Nigeria
Valentin Uwizeyimana (Kigali, Rwanda): Online Learning, and Different Types of English Language Proficiency in Times of Uncertainties
16:00
Coffee Break
16:30
Digital Innovation in Language Teaching: The Global Perspective
(Chair: Bertus van Rooy, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Verbra Pfeiffer (Pretoria, South Africa): Innovative Use of Digital Literacy to Assist First-Year University Students in Academic Writing
JOHN, Henry Chukwudi (University Burgundy Franche-Comté) & AWELEWA Abayomi Olusola(University of Lagos): Should Nigerian Universities Use Digital Humanities Tools to Teach Literary Studies?
Nebojša Radić (Cambridge, UK) & Maria Freddi (Pavia, Italy): A Global View on Innovations in Foreign Language Learning through/after the Pandemic
Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy (NW University, South Africa): Language portraits: To digitize or not?
