CFP: MOTHER TONGUE, OTHER TONGUE? law, learning and literature
(Pretoria, South Africa); 4-6 April 2002
The English Academy of Southern Africa will be hosting its fourteenth
international conference from 4-6 April 2002.
Our aim is to bring together people who use English as a primary
resource for communication and so for empowerment; and who wish to
discuss this important topic from cross-cultural, intergenerational,
international and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Today many critics and a number of philosophers openly reject the
age-old hierarchy of narratives. Instead there is a global trend in
favour of a levelling of all texts, be they legal, philosophical,
literary or pedagogic. This levelling of narratives, coupled with the
recognition that - in the post-modern world which we inhabit - a series
of micro-narratives has replaced the grand narratives of the past,
encourages scholars to develop ways of assessing how these narrative
forms of life are intimately involved in our own lives. Put more
simply, contemporary thinkers try to evolve a theory of meaning of texts
and usage that will not be dry, over-rationalized and logical but will
show how the quest for the meaning of life - the human predicament - is
a continual interplay between life and the narrative forms of life.
Papers addressing the topic within the following categories are invited.
* Directions in composition and rhetoric
* Language, learning and the law
* The role of NGN initiatives
* Language, popular culture and the Arts
* Lessons from literature on Othering in language
* Post-independence narrative culture
* Space & Law, Learning , Literature
* Theories of Language
* Mother tongue, Other tongue?
* India and English
* Language, law and women
Abstracts of 150 words for papers/workshops/poster displays should reach
the convener: Dr Koyana, Departmet of English, University of Pretoria,
Pretoria, 0002, by 31 October 2001.
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