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-喀麦隆撒哈拉以南非洲社会语言文献研讨会与第七届世界非洲语言学大会(WOCAL)一起，2012年8月该奖项支持纽约州立大学布法罗分校Jeffrey Good博士与喀麦隆雅温得大学非洲语言和语言学系Pius Tamanji博士发起的催化活动，以促进与非洲学者的新的国际合作。为此，美国-喀麦隆关于撒哈拉以南非洲社会语言文献的研讨会将与2012年8月举行的第七届世界非洲语言学大会同时举行。讲习班与一次重要的国际会议的协调是最大限度地发挥为期三天的讲习班的影响，并提请注意社会语言学文献作为一个重要研究领域的理想智力环境。重点放在撒哈拉以南非洲，那里的社会和语言之间存在复杂的动态，这为发展社会语言文献的理论和模式提供了独特的机会和理想的试验场。将编写一些工作组报告以供出版，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本次研讨会的预期成果。更广泛地说，研讨会将包括美国研究生、相当数量的非洲学者以及研究中代表性不足的群体的参与者。在WOCAL期间，将举办有关社会语言学主题的教程，为与会者提供培训机会。将重点放在一个基本上未被探索的研究主题上，并将其应用于语言规划和维护工作，这使它对撒哈拉以南非洲和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，这次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，在这些问题上，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记录濒危语言项目共同资助。

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.