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<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10.85pt;
margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Language
Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>University
of Cambridge, Friday, 25 March 2011</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Location: <b>CRASSH,
17 Mill Lane, Cambridge</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:#0011ED'><a href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1332/"
target="_blank">http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1332/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Call
for Papers Deadline</span></i></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>: abstracts due 26 November, 2010.<b><i><br>
On-line Registration</i></b> opens 1 January 2011. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.5pt;
margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Conveners</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:#0011ED'><a
href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/staff/mcj11/jonesm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/staff/mcj11/&h=240&w=240&sz=20&tbnid=hXizy3ZXNK11SM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmari%2Bjones&usg=__O4kIaGUCIFPL2KOsRbZtr_A6RH8=&sa=X&ei=EvURTLWVB5L-0gSEqJjxAg&ved=0CDQQ9QEwBg"
target="_blank">Dr Mari Jones</a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> (Department of French/Peterhouse,
University of Cambridge)<br>
<a
href="http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie.php"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#0024EA'>Dr Sarah Ogilvie </span></a>(Department
of Linguistics/Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge) </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;min-height: 14px'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Summary</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>The First Cambridge International Conference on
Language Endangerment will focus on language documentation, pedagogy, and
revitalization.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>The
following speakers have agreed to give plenary sessions at the conference:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:#0011ED'><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30592.php"
target="_blank"><b>Professor Peter Austin</b></a></span><span style='font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> (SOAS, University of London,
UK) </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Language
Revitalization and Pedagogy: a case from eastern Australia</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:#0011ED'><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/dharris2/"
target="_blank"><b>Professor David K. Harrison </b></a></span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>(Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages, Oregon, USA) <i>Language Extinction:
Local and Global Perspectives</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:#0011ED'><a
href="http://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwiss/Mitarbeiter/Dozenten/Himmelmann/index.html"
target="_blank"><b>Professor Dr Nikolaus Himmelmann</b></a></span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> (University
of Münster, Germany) </span><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>On Language Documentation</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;min-height: 14px'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.5pt;
margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Call
for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>This conference will bring together academics,
students, and members of indigenous communities from around the world to
discuss current theories, methodologies, and practices of language
documentation, pedagogy, revitalization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Most of the world's languages have diminishing
numbers of speakers and are on the brink of falling silent. Currently around
the globe, scholars are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to
document and describe these endangered languages and cultures. Mindful that
their work will be used by future speech communities to learn, teach, and
revitalize their languages, scholars face new challenges in the way they gather
materials and in the way they present their findings. This conference will
discuss current efforts to record, collect, and archive endangered languages in
writing, sound, and video that will support future language learners and
speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Documentation is of critical and immediate
importance, and is often considered one of the main tasks of the field
linguist. Future revitalization efforts may succeed or fail on the basis of the
quality and range of material gathered, and yet the process may be rapid
and dependent on conscious decisions by linguists and language workers who
may be analyzing the form of a language for the first time, and codifying
it in dictionaries and grammars. Written documentation of course not only aids
the process of standardization but also serves important needs and functions
within a community in support of language maintenance such as providing the
basis for pedagogical materials in schools and helping to create a community's
sense of identity. However, indigenous communities and scholars of
endangered languages are beginning to realise that the rapid and often
artificial nature of this process can have negative effects - politically,
linguistically, and culturally - which feed into issues relating to education
and, ultimately, language revitalization.<br>
<br>
In addition to the opportunity of sharing experiences with a network of
linguists, it is hoped that participants will leave the conference with a new
understanding of the topic, innovative ideas for documentation and pedagogy
within their own linguistic contexts, and a renewed vigour to implement what
they have learnt in their own language situations.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;min-height: 14px'><b><i><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Submission
Guideline<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br>
We welcome abstracts (200 words maximum) for papers (20 minute paper + 10
minute discussion) that include, among other topics, discussion of
interdisciplinary approaches and innovative techniques for collecting raw
material, presenting metadata, and archiving language materials; teaching
endangered languages to both children and adults; and revitalizing language use
in homes, schools, and communities.<i> </i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Abstracts are due by <b>26 November 2010</b>,
and should be sent to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Dr Mari Jones </span></b><span style='font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>(<a href="mailto:mcj11@cam.ac.uk"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#0024EA'>mcj11@cam.ac.uk</span></a>)
and <b>Dr Sarah Ogilvie </b>(<a href="mailto:svo21@cam.ac.uk"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#0024EA'>svo21@cam.ac.uk</span></a>).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.5pt;
margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Sponsor</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>The
conveners are grateful for the support of The Centre for Research in the
Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.15pt;
margin-left:0cm'><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Sent
on behalf of Mari Jones, with apologies for cross-postings.</span></i><i><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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