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<big><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Call for papers for
Panel at 7th EUROSEAS conference to be held in Lisbon on 2-5
July, 2013 <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.euroseas.org/platform/en">http://www.euroseas.org/platform/en</a><br>
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Panel 58 CHALLENGES TO (ENDANGERED) MINORITY LANGUAGES IN SE
ASIA<br>
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Abstract:<br>
Across Southeast Asia, especially since many nations gained
political independence in the post second world war period, the
languages of, generally speaking, the dominant ethnic groups
have tended to become superordinate in many respects (as media
of State education, broadcasting, the law, among the others).
This is the case of Malay and Indonesian, Khmer, Thai and
Vietnamese among the others. This panel examines the effects of
the rise of superordinate languages on minority endangered
languages such as language loss, borrowings as a result of
external influence, bilingualism, language policy and its links
with social position. Papers will deal with any subfield of
linguistics and different approaches and persuasions on the
minority languages of South East Asia that are facing decline at
an unprecedented speed and in particular will report on what is
being done in terms of documentation and conservation.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.euroseas.org/platform/files/file/final%20panels/6th%20GROUP.pdf">http://www.euroseas.org/platform/files/file/final%20panels/6th%20GROUP.pdf</a>
Send an abstract of a maximum of 400 words by November 30th to the panel organizer:
Antonia Soriente
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asoriente@unior.it">asoriente@unior.it</a>
Accepted papers will be notified by the first week of December
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Antonia Soriente
Indonesian Language and Literature
Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean
University of Naples 'l'Orientale'
Piazza San Domenico Maggiore
Napoli 80134 - Italy
email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asoriente@unior.it">asoriente@unior.it</a>
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