By Alim Hosein
[Today we highlight the forthcoming international Linguistics Conference which will be hosted by the University of Guyana’s Department of Language and Cultural Studies within its Faculty of Education and Humanities on August 5 – 9, 2024. It is the joint meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics and the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics and is an extremely high ranking forum for these studies globally.
Alim Hosein, a linguist at the University of Guyana, has served variously as Dean of Faculty and Head of Department. He has published several articles and is a well known contributor to this column.]
The University of Guyana, through its Department of Language and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education and Humanities, will host the 2024 conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL). This conference will be held jointly with the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL) starting on August 5 and concluding on August 9. The theme of the conference is “Looking Back and Moving Forward: Innovations in Language Theory, Policy and Practice.” Pidgins and Creoles are spoken in many areas around the world, mainly in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, but they also exist in many other places, even in the United States of America. Historically, pidgins, creoles and other contact languages have been marginalised, even though millions of people speak them as their first languages.