Call for Papers
Call for Papers
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The theme of IAWE26, which will take place in-person only at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, July 25–27 2025, is ‘World Englishes through Space and Time’. Papers with a focus on regional variation in English are invited – particularly when they relate to diachronic variability as captured in the conference theme. Papers can also have a more explicit focus on any of the conference subthemes listed here:
World Englishes and Applied Linguistics
World Englishes and Corpus Linguistics
World Englishes and Cultural Linguistics
World Englishes and Discourse Analysis
World Englishes and Education
World Englishes and Intercultural Communication
World Englishes and Language Acquisition
World Englishes and Language Contact
World Englishes and Language Pedagogy
World Englishes and Language Policy
World Englishes and Lexicography
World Englishes and Linguistic Landscapes
World Englishes and Linguistic Variation
World Englishes and Multilingualism
World Englishes and (Social) Media
World Englishes and Sociolinguistics
World Englishes and World Literatures
Code-mixing, Code-switching and Translanguaging
English as a Lingua Franca
English as an International Language
English-medium Instruction (EMI) Worldwide
The History of World Englishes
Language and Globalisation
Pidgins and Creoles
Varieties of English
Abstract Deadline and Submission
Please send your abstract (max. 200 words excluding references) as an attachment in .docx format to iawe26@ang.jlug.de by 05 January 2025. At the top of the document, please set out a) your full name, b) your affiliation, c) whether you hold a PhD, and d) whether you wish to be considered for the Braj B. Kachru Student Award.
IAWE will again present the Braj B. Kachru Student Award for the best paper from a student at the Association’s international conference. The award is named in honor of Professor Braj B. Kachru, whose influential scholarship helped establish the field of world Englishes, in recognition of his exceptional commitment to student scholarship throughout his career. This award carries a USD 1000 prize. A committee composed of IAWE officers and/or editorial board members of the journal World Englishes will select and announce the winning paper at the conference.
Plenary Speakers
The plenary speakers at IAWE26 and the titles of their talks are presented here for your information:
| Kingsley Bolton (Stockholm University and Ateneo de Manila University): World Englishes: Forty Years and Beyond |
| Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg-Essen and University of Limerick): Second-language English: Contact, Core and Communalities |
| Pam Peters (Macquarie University): The Americanization of English in Anglophone and Non-Anglophone Countries: Transnational Attraction or Global English? |
| Isabel Pefianco Martin (Ateneo de Manila University): Translanguaging for Deeper Learning: Embracing Pluricentric Englishes in the Classroom |
| Dushyanthi Mendis (University of Colombo): World Englishes: Into the Future |
| Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago): A Uniformitarian Approach to the Kachruvian Concentric Model of World Englishes |
Conference Website and Contact
For continuously updated details about the conference, please visit the conference website at https://www.uni-giessen.de/iawe26, and contact us with any questions you may have via iawe26@ang.jlug.de.
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