US-Cameroon Workshop on Sociolinguistic Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa in Conjunction with the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics, August 2012

CNIC：美国- 2012年8月，第七届非洲语言学世界大会期间，撒哈拉以南非洲社会语言文献喀麦隆讲习班。该奖项支持布法罗纽约州立大学的Jeffrey Good博士与雅温得大学非洲语言和语言学系的Pius Tamanji博士共同发起的一项催化活动。喀麦隆将促进与非洲学者的新的国际合作。 为此，将于2012年8月在第七届世界非洲语言学大会期间举办美国-喀麦隆撒哈拉以南非洲社会语言学文献工作会议。 研讨会与一个主要的国际会议，其中领先的学者提出他们的研究和计划未来的项目的协调是理想的智力环境，以最大限度地提高为期三天的研讨会的影响，并提请注意社会语言学语言文献作为一个重要的研究领域。 对撒哈拉以南非洲地区的关注，那里的社会和语言之间存在复杂的动态，为社会语言学语言文献的理论和模型的发展提供了独特的机会和理想的试验场。 将编写若干工作组报告供出版，并在网上提供。 最重要的是，制定具体的研究项目和伙伴关系是这次讲习班的预期成果。 更广泛地说，研讨会将包括美国研究生、大量非洲学者以及来自研究领域代表性不足群体的参与者。 在WOCAL期间，将举办有关社会语言学主题的讲座，为与会者提供培训机会。 重点放在一个基本上未经探索的研究课题，并应用于语言规划和维护工作，使其对撒哈拉以南非洲及其他地区资源不足的语言群体具有潜在的好处。 特别重要的是，该讲习班的成果可能会引起关心语言政策和教育问题的非洲人的兴趣，因为在这方面，更好地了解使用多种语言的社会背景将具有很高的价值。该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室和SBE/BCS记录濒危语言计划共同资助。

CNIC: U.S.-Cameroon Workshop on Sociolinguistic Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa in Conjunction with the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), August 2012 This award supports a catalytic activity initiated by Dr. Jeffrey Good, State University of New York at Buffalo with Dr. Pius Tamanji, Department of African Languages and Linguistics, University of Yaoundé, Cameroon to promote new international collaborations with African scholars. To that end, the US-Cameroon workshop on sociolinguistic language documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa will be held in conjunction with the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics in August 2012. Coordination of the workshop with a major international conference where leading scholars present their research and plan future projects is the ideal intellectual setting to maximize the impact of the three-day workshop and draw attention to sociolinguistic language documentation as an important area for research. The focus on Sub-Saharan Africa where there are complex dynamics between societies and languages provides unique opportunities as well as an ideal testing ground for developing theories and models for sociolinguistic language documentation. Selected working group reports will be prepared for publication and made available online. Most importantly, the development of specific research projects and partnerships is an expected outcome of this workshop. More broadly, the workshop will include U.S. graduate students, a significant number of African scholars, and participants from under-represented groups in research. Tutorials will be held on relevant sociolinguistic topics during the WOCAL to provide attendees training opportunities. The focus on a largely unexplored research topic with applications to work on language planning and maintenance make it of potential benefit to under-resourced language groups within Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Especially significant is that the results of this workshop are likely to be of interest to Africans concerned with issues of language policy and education, where a better understanding of the social context of multilingualism would be of high value. This award is jointly funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the SBE/BCS Documenting Endangered Languages Program.