CFP - Graduate student colloquium on Language Documentation

Nick Thieberger thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU
Thu Aug 28 02:00:52 UTC 2008


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1st Call for Papers for a graduate student colloquium on Language
Documentation, to be submitted as part of the 1st International
Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the
University of Hawai'i, March 12-14 2009. This colloquium, organized by
and for graduate students, will provide an opportunity for graduate
students to share their research and experiences. The main conference
website is at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09.


ABSTRACT DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 20th 2008.

We welcome abstracts from graduate students in linguistics and related
areas dealing with language documentation and conservation or focusing
on issues including, but not limited to:

Time limitation in the graduate program and its implication for
language documentation

Responding to community requests for revitalization during the graduate program

Fieldwork and language documentation for graduate students in L3 and
issues for translation

Conflicts and compromises on research and goals between communities
and researchers

Presentation format:
Papers will be allowed 20 minutes with 10 minutes of question time.

Abstract submission:
Abstracts must be first submitted directly to the session organizer,
Hiroko Sato, at hirokosa at hawaii.edu by September 20th 2008. Once the
session has been organized, accepted abstracts will be submitted to
the main conference website. Please note that we have obtained a
deadline extension from the conference organizers for this themed
session.


Maximum abstract length is 400 words. Please send your abstract as an
attachment to hirokosa at hawaii.edu.

Notification of Acceptance: by OCTOBER 17th, 2008



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