Welcome to the official website for
The 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes

~The Multiple Expressions of World Englishes~

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA
July 21 – 23, 2005

Conference registration and hotel reservation forms

are here!

The final program is here!

Welcome

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is our honor and pleasure to invite you to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana for the 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE).

We hope that the annual IAWE Conference is a highlight of your year, and if it isn’t already that it becomes one, as it is for us. It provides such a unique opportunity to meet and talk with scholars from all corners of the globe with a shared interest in diverse aspects of the Englishes that are developing and being used in multiple settings and contexts.

The location for the 2005 conference is Purdue’s beautiful West Lafayette campus in a parklike setting of trees, flowers, grassy areas, and spectacular fountains dotted among the signature Purdue brick buildings. The conference will take place in the Stewart Center, a state-of-the-art conference facility, with quality hotel accommodation and dining facilities only a few steps away.

And with its strong commitment to international education, Purdue University provides an ideal venue for world Englishes scholars to gather. This year the University boasts nearly 5,000 international students and about 700 faculty and staff from 130 countries. In the fall 2004 semester Purdue ranked second in international student enrollment among all public United States colleges and universities.

Please consider making the IAWE Conference and Purdue University part of your summer plans in 2005, even combining with your trip to AILA. It would be a personal pleasure to see you there.

All best wishes,

Margie Berns Conference Chair, IAWE 2005	Beverly Hartford Associate Conference Chair, IAWE 2005

Aims and objectives of the conference

• 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.

• The aims of the IAWE 2005 conference relate to the inclusive and pluralistic principles of IAWE itself, including, (1) the provision of a truly international forum for scholars in English studies and linguistics to meet, discuss, and share ideas; (2) the facilitation of understanding and exchange between educators and students in this field across cultures and international boundaries; and (3) to address and engage with a range of theoretical and applied issues linked to the spread of English worldwide.

• The conference particularly welcomes participants from the developing world, including societies in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, as well as the former Soviet Union.

Conference theme: The multiple expressions of World Englishes
Since its inception, the world Englishes perspective on the spread of English worldwide (and such related academic enterprises as applied linguistics, English studies, creolistics, sociolinguistics, and literatures in English) has been multidisciplinary and pluralistic. The interests of scholars working in this field span a wide range of interests from linguistic theory to discourse analysis, from literary studies to corpus linguistics, from critical linguistics to varieties-based descriptions, and from the sociology of language to language and gender.

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Other useful links

• Please go to the IAWE homepage for information about the organization.
• You can join or renew your membership online!
• Visit the World Englishes homepage at the Blackwell Publishing website for subscription information.
• AILA 2005 conference page.

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• To register for the conference, please read the registration notes (.doc) for details about registration, and fill out the registration form (.doc).

• You can join IAWE or renew your membership here.

• Conference registration fees will include the conference banquet, coffee breaks, and lunch on Thursday and Friday.

• An opening banquet will take place on Thursday night (more info to come soon).

• Early registration is encouraged especially for those who will need a visa for entry to the US. Registration cancellation precedures will be available soon.

 

	Before June 30, 2005	After June 30, 2005
Member rate (to renew your membership click here)	$150	$160
Non member rate (to join IAWE, click here)	$180	$200
Student rate (proof of student status requied; see below)	$25	$30

IMPORTANT: READ BEFORE COMPLETING REGISTRATION FORM!
- To receive the early registration rate, your form - with payment -must be received no later than June 30, 2005.
- Proof of membership is required to get the membership rate. If you would like to become a member, go to http://www.iaweworks.org/ and join on line. A reply e-mail will include your subscription (membership) number. NOTE: Without proof of membership, you will automatically be charged the non-member rate.
- To qualify for student rates, a copy of a current student ID card must be sent with the registration form. NOTE: Without proof of student status, you will automatically be charged the full non member rate.
- All presenters and session chairs are required to register.
- All fees are listed in US Dollars. All payments must be made in US Dollars. Checks should be drawn on US banks and properly encoded for the Federal Reserve System.
- Please submit one copy of this form per registrant, and keep a copy for your records.
- The registration form may be duplicated as necessary.
- Reserve a space for ground travel to the AILA Congress on the Registration form. Eight-passenger vans have been reserved for the trip to Madison. Van reservation fees are non-refundable.

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Revised program schedule

• The conference program schedule has been finalized and is now available. The three links below give the day, time and title for the presentations in pdf format. Please note that any further program changes will appear only in the printed program book.
  
  • day 1
  • day 2
  • day 3
    
• The Conference begins at 8:00 am on Thursday, July 21, with Concurrent Session and ends at 2:00 pm address Saturday, July 23, following the President’s Address at the Closing Session.
• The Registration Desk will be open on Wednesday, July 20, from 3:00-5:00 pm in the East Foyer of the Stewart Center.   On Thursday it begins at 7:30 am in the same location.
• Saturday’s abbreviated schedule should allow everyone attending the AILA Congress sufficient time for travel to Madison, Wisconsin for its Sunday evening’s opening. See information about transportation to AILA below.
  

Plenary speakers

• Susan Butler, Sydney, Australia

Lexicography and world Englishes: from Australia to Asia

Susan Butler is the Executive Editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, Australia. Her interests are in developing, alongside a corpus of Australian English, a corpus of Asian English (called ASIACORP) in preparation for a range of English dictionaries for the South-East Asian region. As part of the information-gathering process on Asian Englishes, Sue has hosted and organized three conferences in the late 1990s on the theme English is an Asian Language, in Manila, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Recently, her work in the area has been extended into research on the lexicography of Indian English.

• Evelyn Ch'ien, University of Hartford , USA

Artful English: Experimental portraits of English

Evelyn Ch’ien is the author of Weird English (Harvard University Press, 2004) and has written for The Village Voice and A Magazine: Inside Asian America. She has also translated poetry and fiction from Chinese to English for The Literary Review. From 2006 she will be teaching at The University of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minneapolis.

• Lyubov Sokirkina, Saratov University, Russian Federation

World Englishes: The Russian Experience

Lyubov I.Sokirkina is the Head of the Department of English and Intercultural Communication at Saratov State University. She is also a visiting fellow at the University of Salford, UK, and a member of the Foreign Languages Research and Methodology Council of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education. A frequent presenter at Russian and international conferences and the author of many textbooks, dictionaries and papers, within Russia she has encouraged and pioneered research into the sociolinguistics of world Englishes, with particular focus on the societal and functional penetration of English in Russia.

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• The Conference Committee has reserved blocks of rooms for conference attendees in two locations on campus.
  

  The Purdue Memorial Union Club Hotel is located right beside the conference center.

• Standard single or double standard room is USD 85 (plus taxes) per person per night.
• Deluxe single or double deluxe room is USD 103 (plus taxes) per person per night.

On campus housing in Hawkins Residence Hall (across the stree from the conference center) will be available as well (rates are nominal depending the level of service and whether single or double). Before you complete the registration form for residence hall housing, please read the registration notes (.doc) carefully for more information.

• When these room blocks have been filled, you will be referred to other accommodations available nearby.

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Additional information about travel to, from, and around West Lafayette can be found at the Lafayette Online Travel Center.

For participants traveling by air

• The nearest airport is the Indianapolis International airport (just 60 miles from West Lafayette).
• There is a shuttle from Indianapolis' airport directly to the conference center.
• A bit farther are the Chicago airports (O'Hare and Midway) (about 120 miles from West Lafayette).
• There is also a shuttle service between Chicago's O'Hare Airport and West Lafayette.
• Rental cars are available at all airports. See the above links.

  Participants traveling by car

  West Lafayette is located a few miles from U.S. Interstate 65. Participants planning to travel to the conference by car can find details about the highways leading to Purdue here.

City bus service and city maps

• Feel free to look over the Lafayette and West Lafayette maps and the Purdue University campus map.
• The Lafayette/West Lafayette city bus service can get you around campus and around the Greater Lafayette/West Lafayette area.
• Trolley rides between campus and downtown Lafayette are free.

   

  Ground transport to AILA

  Eight-passenger vans have been reserved for the trip from West Lafaytette to AILA in Madison, Wisconsin. The drive takes approximately 4 hours and one-half hours. You can reserve a space for a one way or round trip on the conference registration form (.doc). The trip takes approximately 4 1/2 hours. Please read the registration notes (.doc) for more information.

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Purdue University and ESL in the Department of English

• Check out Purdue University and a Purdue University campus map for orientation to your host university.
• Members of the Local Arrangements Committee are currently students in the ESL Program, part of the University's English Department and the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, both in the College of Liberal Arts.

Places to eat and things to do

• If you're arriving early, staying late, or just hoping to see what summer life is like in West Lafayette, you may want to check the guide to local Restaurants or the dining guide.
• NEW! Three restaurants in West Lafayette will offer discounts to conference members:
  • Khana Khazana (Indian Cuisine, 108 Northwestern Avenue) will offer a 10% reduction on the buffet and a 15% reduction on the menu items if you show your conference name tag.
  • Sofra (Turkish Cuisine, on the Levee Plaza, near McDonald's) will offer a 10% discount on orders of 20$ or more.
  • Thai Basil (on Chauncey Mall) will offer a free Iced Jasmine Green Tea with coupon and $5 minimum order (coupon in the conference folder).
• There are several points of historical, cultural, architectural, educational points of interests. Have a look at the Purdue University campus map to get acquainted with the layout of the area and the campus.
• Prepare for your stay with a Purdue University Virtual Visit and once you've arrived, take a historical tour of the West Lafayette campus (tour offered by Purdue's Visitor Information Center and must be scheduled in advance).
• Don't miss the Community Events and other things to do in Lafayette!
• The Lafayette/West Lafayette visitor bureau will also give you information about Movie theaters, the Purdue Universities Galleries, the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, and much more!

 

Weather

• July is mid-summer in Indiana, so the temperatures will likely be in the 80s to 90s degrees Fahrenheit (25 to 35 degrees Celsius) and very humid. For up-to-date forecasts as the conference approaches, you can click here.

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International Organizing Committee

• The conference organizers thank the following for their generous support of IAWE  2005.  College of Liberal Arts, Department of English, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics.

Submitting a proposal

Sorry!

We are no longer able to accept absracts for this year's conference.

Proposals are invited for either 20 minute paper presentations or two to three hour panel sessions.

The (extended) deadline is January 8, 2005. Please follow the guidelines below.

For a proposal for a 20 minute paper, submit your one-page (150 – 300 words maximum) abstract, and be sure to include:

• title
• submitter's name
• postal and email addresses.

For a proposal for a panel session, submit a one-page (150-300 words maximum) abstract for the panel as a whole and a one-page abstract for each panel paper to be presented. Be sure to include:

• title
• submitter's name
• whether a two or three hour panel
• postal and email addresses
• names and affiliation of all panel presenters (session organizers are responsible for all communication with co-presenters).

Send proposals electronically to Kingsley.Bolton@English.su.se.

NB: Conference papers are allotted 20 minutes for presentation, followed by 10 minutes for comments and discussion. Panel sessions are likewise to allow time for comment and discussion among audience members and presenters.

Sample topic areas
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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If you have any questions or ideas or problems about this website, please contact the IAWE 2005 Web Manager, Lucie Moussu, at lmoussu@purdue.edu