"Interactions and Interfaces"

Rhodes University, Grahamstown

South Africa

 Sunday the 26th of June 2011 to Wednesday the 29th of June 2011

The Final programme is available here:  Final programme 

 The Department of English Language and Linguistics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, is pleased to be hosting the 2011 joint annual conference of the following societies: 

  •    Linguistics Society of Southern African (LSSA)
  •    Southern African Applied Linguistics Association (SAALA)
  •    South African Association of Language Teachers (SAALT)

 The Second International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (EPIP 2) will also be held concurrently.

 Please note that proposals are no longer accepted but prospective delegates who wish only to attend are welcome to register.

 The conference theme is `Interactions and Interfaces', which reflects the multidisciplinary nature of this joint conference, which is focussed on bringing together theoretical linguists, sociolinguists, applied linguists and language teachers. The international conference (EPIP 2) has a similar multidisciplinary focus i.e. bringing together researchers and teachers of English, phonetics, phonology and EFL/ESL/EAP interested in the issues surrounding English pronunciation, both native and non-native. The theme also applies to interfaces and interactions between different theories, different conceptions of language, different languages and, indeed, the interactions between people, and encapsulates the potential synergies of such a meeting. 

 

Invited Keynote Speakers

The following have kindly agreed to contribute keynote talks on these

topics:

.     Gary Barkhuizen (Auckland University, New Zealand) Language learning

       success: Multiple narrative perspectives

.     Tracey Derwing (University of Alberta, Canada) The Role of

       Interaction in L2 Pronunciation and Comprehensibility

.     Paul Foulkes (University of York, United Kingdom) Individual

      variability in English pronunciation: applications in the forensic domain

.     Pieter Muysken (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands) Roots of

       ethnolects