Welcome to the official Web site for
The 12th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes


October 7-9, 2006 at Chukyo University in Japan




IAWE mission statement:
The International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) aims to establish international links among those involved with any aspect of World Englishes in research and/or teaching. The association focuses on global issues relating to three major aspects of World Englishes: language, literature, and pedagogy. As an organization, IAWE is committed to the study of the forms and functions of English in diverse cultural and sociolinguistic contexts.


Theme

Theory and Application: World Englishes in World Contexts

A wide range of topics are typically covered at IAWE conferences, including but not restricted to the following:
  • Diverse disciplinary perspectives on world Englishes, such as anthropological, critical, discourse, 'features-based', genre, historical, and sociolinguistic studies
  • Various approaches, such as corpus linguistics, contact linguistics, and creolistics and world Englishes
  • Language planning and politics
  • Domains of use, such as English in media and advertising or the classroom among others
  • Issues, such as power, ideology, and identity; evaluation, testing, and intelligibility; second and foreign language acquisition and pedagogy; bilingual creativity in English literatures


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