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<td align="left" class="p-match" width="700"><font face="Times New Roman" style="color:rgb(51,51,102)">Dear all,<br>
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Please see the upcoming conference on anthropology and linguistics in the Pacific held in the University of Bern, Switzerland, March, 2017. Please also circulate it to anyone you consider may be interested in the topic. <br>
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Many thanks,<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sara Lynch</span></font>
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Modern English Linguistics<br>
English Department, University of Bern<br>
Muesmattstrasse 45<br>
CH-3000 Bern 9<br>
Switzerland<br>
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Tel. +41 31 631 41 17<br>
www.ens.unibe.ch<br>
www.english-in-micronesia.weebly.com<a href="http://www.english-in-micronesia.weebly.com/" target="_blank">www.english-in-micronesia.weebly.com</a></font></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Full Title: Studies of Paradise: Where Language Meets Culture in the Pacific </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Date: 09-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017 </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Location: Bern, Switzerland </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Call Deadline: 21-Oct-2016 (revised)</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Meeting Description:</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">There have been a number of research projects on Pacific languages, or on communities of the
Pacific, carried out with an ethnographic and anthropological perspective. The English language, however, albeit an official language in many of these communities, has received little or no attention. In the few cases English has been or is being investigated,
researchers often analyse the post-colonial English-speaking communities with a sociolinguistic approach. There is a lack of studies with transdisciplinary foci, where anthropological perspectives inform the study of Pacific languages (including English),
and vice-versa, where linguistic perspectives help complete anthropological studies of Pacific communities. </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">This conference brings together (socio)linguists and anthropologists alike to discuss transdisciplinary
stances and approaches (in the topics of language contact, language variation and change, postcolonial Englishes, mobility, power, policies and culture). </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Keynote Speakers: </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Prof. Carolin Biewer, University of Würzburg (Germany) </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Prof. David Britain, University of Bern (Switzerland) </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Prof. Elizabeth Keating, University of Texas at Austin (USA) <br>
</span><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2">Prof. Kazuko Matsumoto, University of Tokyo (Japan)</font><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Organising Committee: </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Modern English Linguistics, University of Bern: </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Dominique Bürki </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Tobias Leonhardt </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Sara Lynch </span><br>
<a href="http://english-in-micronesia.weebly.com/studies-of-paradise.html" style="color:rgb(204,51,0); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://english-in-micronesia.weebly.com/studies-of-paradise.html</a><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Call for Papers: </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Presenters: </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Researchers of socio-cultural aspects of Pacific communities, Pacific languages, and English
varieties in the Pacific are invited to submit abstracts. We aim to inform each other about linguistic and anthropological methods and findings and be able to create synergies between the two disciplines. </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Focus Questions: </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- How can the nature of indigenous ethnicities in the Pacific and its historical transformation
be explored? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- How do socio-historical developments such as mission work, spread of formal education, political
autonomy, and climate change influence an island's culture identity and their language? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- In which way are substrate languages and colonizer languages in competition? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- In which way do mobility, globalisation, power, and other anthropological themes shape linguistic
behaviour? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- What is the extent to which varieties of English share linguistic features? How do they predict
variation patterns across different varieties? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- Which individual linguistic constraints are universal, and which are culturally dependent? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- Are some linguistic variation patterns more stable across speech communities than others? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- How do we evaluate overall similarities between English varieties of the Pacific while still
considering cultural differences? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">- How can cross-varietal differences in variation be best explained? </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Format: </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Authors are requested to submit an abstract of max. 500 words (excluding references) in pdf
form to micronesia-project<img align="absbottom">outlook.com </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Important Dates: </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Submission of abstracts: 21 October 2016 (revised) </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,102); font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Code2000,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Notification of acceptance: 30 November 2016</span><br>
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