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Date: 06 Dec 2000
From: Tourabi Abderrezzak <tourabi at iera.um5souissi.ac.ma>
Subject: Arabization Conference Announcement

Dear All
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Conference
organized by the Institute for the Study and Research on Arabization, in

Rabat-Morocco, on:
"Language Issues" due to take place from May 3 to 6, 2000.
Attached is the call for papers.
We look forward to meeting you,
Sincerely yours
Abderrezzak Tourabi
The Organizing Comittee

The Institute of Studies
 and Research for Arabization                         Colloquium from 3
to 6/5/2000
Rabat-MOROCCO

                            LANGUAGE  ISSUES

Language issues are often are as of urgent concern for most countries
including ours. They mainly relate to fields such as education and
literacy, reasoning and cultural typologies, mass-media, communication,
sciences and techniques, economy, administration, regional diversity and

national unity, types of linguistic policies, memory, religion,
ethnicity, identity, gender, psychology, research and tool production.
In the absence of a global, dynamic and modern vision, language issues
are either wrongly raised or ignored. They receive inadequate or narrow
ideological treatment in the lack of quality of conception, execution,
clarity, coherence and political willingness, in addition to the lack of

cooperation with regard to standardization, variation, and
communication between academic and political worlds.

To examine these issues, the current Colloquium seeks to persue the
following objectives:

a. to survey the state of the art with a view to identifying the
relevant forms and viable articulations of these issues

b. to make it possible for governmental and political officials,
corporation and industry representatives and non-governmental
associations as well as academians to adequately formulate these
questions and provide appropriate answers.

c. to establish links between the various stakeholders to come up with
mutually shared responses and practices.

d. to draw a parallel between national proposals and solutions and
international debates and experiences

The Colloquium will be an opportunity for responsibles, academia, and
national and international experts to debate these sensitive issues
objectively and suggest manageable action plans taking into account
different parameters of the complexity of the process. The Colloquium
will  typically address the following themes:

1. Language, education, and literacy.
2. Reasoning and cultural typologies and types of linguistic policies
3. Language, mass-media, and communication
4. Economy, administration, sciences and techniques
5. Regional diversity, national unity, and globalization
6. Memory, religion, ethnicity, identity, modernity, gender and psychism

7. Life, evolution, and death of languages; research and tools

The languages used in the Colloquium will be Arabic, French, and
English. The Colloquium is due to take place from 3 to 6 May 2001 at the

IERA. Abstracts should be sent ( in 3 copies + disquette) to the
organizing Committee before 15 February 2001, and application forms
before  January 30th, 2001.

 For information and correspondence, please contact:

IERA «Language Issues »
BP 6216 Rabat-Instituts Maroc
Phone: 212-37 7730 12, 37730 05
Fax: 212-37 77 20 65
E-mail: ittissaal @iera,um5souissi.ac.ma

The Institute of Studies
 and Research for Arabization                         Colloquium from 3
to 6/5/2000

LANGUAGE  ISSUES

Language issues are often are as of urgent concern for most countries
including ours. They mainly relate to fields such as education and
literacy, reasoning and cultural typologies, mass-media, communication,
sciences and techniques, economy, administration, regional diversity and
national unity, types of linguistic policies, memory, religion,
ethnicity, identity, gender, psychology, research and tool production.
In the absence of a global, dynamic and modern vision, language issues
are either wrongly raised or ignored. They receive inadequate or narrow
ideological treatment in the lack of quality of conception, execution,
clarity, coherence and political willingness, in addition to the lack of
cooperation with regard to standardization, variation, and
communication between academic and political worlds.