General Sessions

We invite proposals on all aspects of contemporary English. We particularly welcome work on variation in English, second language acquisition and development, learner corpora, discourse and metadiscourse, constructions, metaphor, politeness, formulaic language, academic writing, language contact, corpus-based studies, and statistical modelling. Proposals on historical or contrastive topics should clearly connect to present-day English.

BICLCE11 highlights the theme of English in a geopolitically changing world. We thus especially encourage contributions addressing how shifting global alignments, mobility and migration, digital infrastructures, and emerging inequalities influence the uses and perceptions of English worldwide.

For the General Sessions, we invite proposals for individual papers consisting of a 20-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The abstracts should conform to the template found at HERE.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT.