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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In case anyone doesn’t know about this <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#C0504D'>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#C0504D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#C0504D'>Julia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Alison Kelly</b> <<a href="mailto:ak69@soas.ac.uk">ak69@soas.ac.uk</a>><br>Date: 30 November 2010 12:10<br>Subject: Call: Workshop on applied Language Documentation in sub-Saharan Africa<br>To: <a href="mailto:LING-DEPT-L@listserv.soas.ac.uk">LING-DEPT-L@listserv.soas.ac.uk</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Workshop on applied Language Documentation in sub-Saharan Africa</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>School of Oriental and African Studies, London</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Saturday 14th May, 2011</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/aldsa/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/aldsa/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Dr Jeff Good, University at Buffalo, NY</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Dr Guy De Pauw, University of Antwerp and AfLAt (African Language Technology)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>The last twenty years have seen a dramatic worldwide increase in funding for community-based linguistic fieldwork. This has largely been motivated by a concern for language endangerment, leading to the emergence of a new sub-discipline known as "Documentary Linguistics" (Himmelmann 1998). Language Documentation is characterised by Woodbury (in press) as 'the creation, annotation, preservation, and dissemination of transparent records of a language'. While a considerable number of grants have funded the documentation of African languages (e.g. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.hrelp.org/languages/index.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>http://www.hrelp.org/languages/index.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>) to date, research in applied language documentation is heavily skewed towards the linguistic situations found in Australia and the Americas. In these former settlement colonies, language revitalisation efforts benefit from levels of civil infrastructure and literacy that do not exist in large parts of Africa. As a consequence, this workshop aims to provide a scholarly environment for the exchange of ideas about the application of language documentation within the contextual setting of Africa in order to arrive at an understanding of how site-specific applications of language documentation can benefit language communities. As such, it aims to provide recommendations about technological choices and the structure and implementation of corpora, in order to increase the impact of documentation projects.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Abstracts are invited for 30 minute presentations discussing how the central themes of language documentation relate to improving site-specific applied language documentation. These include:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>how corpus design might help/hinder local dissemination of language documentation outcomes;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>how new technology and media can be employed in applied language documentation to overcome prevailing problems with dissemination in community settings;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>ways in which site-specific community participation in language documentation can lead to more effective application of language documentation goals;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>how multi-disciplinary approaches to language documentation might provide lasting impact in African language support and maintenance.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Each speaker will have 30 minutes for their presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. All speakers will be asked to include practical recommendations for appliedLanguage Documentation in sub-Saharan Africa as part of their talk. These recommendations will form the basis for a panel discussion at the end of the workshop.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>ABSTRACT SUBMISSION</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Abstracts should be anonymous, a maximum of one page in length and 12pt font (not including any references). Abstracts should be sent to: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:elap@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>elap@soas.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>, by the abstract deadline.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Abstract deadline:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'> 17th January 2011</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Abstract notification:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'> 4th February 2011</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>This workshop is running as part of Endangered Languages Week 2011.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>The local organisers are Stuart McGill (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:sm112@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'>sm112@soas.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>), Oliver Bond (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:ob1@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'>ob1@soas.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>) and Philip Jaggar (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:pj@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'>pj@soas.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>-- <br>Dr. Oliver Bond<br>Endangered Languages Academic Programme<br>Department of Linguistics, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>LONDON<br>WC1H 0XG<br><br>Direct line: +44(0)207 898 4582<br><br><a href="mailto:oliver.bond@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">oliver.bond@soas.ac.uk</a><br><br><a href="http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=ob" target="_blank">http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=ob</a><br><br><a href="http://www.eleme.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.eleme.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>