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From http://www.freetocharities.org.uk/yaounde/conference2.html

Call for Papers
13-15 April 2006

SignPost, the Post-Graduate Literary Forum of the Department of English, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon, is organising a conference on the theme: Dislocating the centre in language and literature.

The three-day conference seeks to bring postgraduate students of the State and Private Universities and other higher institutions together to spur their participation in current trends in Language and Literature. It also intends to explore the political, cultural, and historical movements that are influential to these trends. The conference will thus focus on an understanding of representation, with emphasis on notions such as nationalism, nationhood and ethnicity.

Participants are requested to forward a 300 word abstract on but not limited to, the following:

Sub Themes for Language

- The Adoptability and Adaptability of English around the world
- Language and expanding function
- Varieties of English and pedagogic concerns
- Sub varieties of English
- Recent trends in English usage
- Language and Culture
- Monolingualism: Problems, Prospects and Challenges
- Language and Politics
- Language and Personality
- Bilingualism
- Translation

Deadline 31st January 2006

For more information, visit http://www.freetocharities.org.uk/yaounde/conference2.html .
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