From corsetti at itelcad.it Tue Apr 6 22:22:09 1999 From: corsetti at itelcad.it (renato corsetti) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 18:22:09 EDT Subject: Come and study the Esperanto-speaking tribe Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems in cooperation with Universal Esperanto Association Berlin, Germany, 31 July-8 August 1999 COME AND STUDY THE ESPERANTO-SPEAKING TRIBE Linguistics textbooks give all kinds of definitions of Esperanto. But the fact is that members of the linguistic community don't know much about people who speak the language. Can they use Esperanto in everyday situations, quarrel in it, swear in it? Are there any native speakers? The Esperanto movement has a language problem of its own: it is difficult for someone who has not studied the language to find out about the Esperanto movement. And yet the Esperanto language, the Esperanto movement and Esperanto speakers present a challenge to many branches of linguistics and the social sciences. There are questions which demand to be answered: who speaks Esperanto? and why? What happens if children learn the language as one of their native tongues? What is the structure of a linguistic community in which native speakers are only a tiny minority? The Universal Esperanto Association (UEA) is the largest Esperanto organisation in the world. Its annual congress attracts several thousand participants every year. The programme includes cultural, political and scientific sessions, but most importantly, the annual congress gives Esperantists from around the world the chance to meet. This year, UEA has decided to open its conference to scholars who want to learn more about the unique linguistic and sociological structure of the Esperanto movement. This programme is offered in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, an independent research institute whose activities include editing the journal "Language Problems and Language Planning". We are not aiming to convince linguists to learn Esperanto; our aim is to show that Esperanto is an interesting object of study in its own right. The annual meeting of the worldwide Esperanto-speaking tribe, the 84th World Congress of Esperanto, will take place from the 31st of July to the 8th of August in the International Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. You are invited to attend this congress and observe it at leisure; the usual congress fee will be waived for professional linguists, but please let us know in advance if you are planning to attend. You will be free to mingle with the people, interview, record, videotape, or undertake other research activities. We will try to provide interpreters where necessary. If you wish you may also take a course in order to get an understanding of the basic structure of the language. The World Congress of Esperanto always includes a series of Esperanto Studies sessions. If you want to give a talk on contact linguistics or international/interethnic language problems, please let us know. You may also be interested in the Nitobe symposium, a two-day symposium, on 2nd-3rd August, on "Globalization and Language Diversity", with several well known speakers, which will focus on language policy and international relations. Again, if you would like to give an oral or written contribution, please inform us. We will get back in touch with you. For more information on Esperanto Studies and planned languages, we recommend the following sites: http://magi.com/~mfettes/studies.html http://www.snafu.de/~ubecker/gesellsc.htm http://htliu.yeah.net You can also receive an overview of Esperanto Studies and Interlinguistics, a bibliography on the subject and a brief description of the structure and organisation of the World Congress. For further information, and assistance with accomodation in Berlin, please contact: Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems Nieuwe Binnenweg, 176 NL-3015 BJ Rotterdam The Netherlands From nicholas at uci.edu Sun Apr 18 15:36:29 1999 From: nicholas at uci.edu (Nick Nicholas) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 11:36:29 EDT Subject: TOC: History of Language 5.1 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Issue 5.1 of _History of Language_ (formerly _Dhumbadji! Journal for the History of Language_) has now appeared, featuring: R. Lagerberg: The stress of Russian Adjectives Containing the Suffix -iv(yj) P. Sidwell: A report on the status and distribution of Bahnaric languages and speakers on the Boloven Plateau, Lao PDR S. Levin: Reply to the Review of _Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies_ The web page of the journal and the Association for the History of Languages have moved with me to California, and are now on http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Work/ahl.html . Subscription details are availble from the site. http://www.tlg.edu.au/~opoudjis mailto://nicholas at uci.edu NICK NICHOLAS. Assoc. Specialist, THESAURUS LINGUAE GRAECAE, UCI, USA Such a lack of true education is finally also attested for the common administration of the time, both secular and religious; had they not lost their brain, they would not have lost their kingdom three hundred years hence. (Adamantios Korais on Byzantium, _Miscellanea_, 1828). From decl at netgazer.com.ph Thu Apr 22 12:38:06 1999 From: decl at netgazer.com.ph (decl) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:38:06 EDT Subject: international conference Message-ID: Would it be possible to circulate a call for papers and invitation to participate in an international conference through your mailing list? The Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines is sponsoring a conference entitled "Ruptures and Departures: Language and Culture in Southeast Asia" on 19-21 January 2000. We would like to reach as many people as possible. Thank you. Troy Barrios Department of English and Comparative Literature University of the Philippines -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Esperanto movement has a language problem of its own: it is difficult for someone who has not studied the language to find out about the Esperanto movement. And yet the Esperanto language, the Esperanto movement and Esperanto speakers present a challenge to many branches of linguistics and the social sciences. There are questions which demand to be answered: who speaks Esperanto? and why? What happens if children learn the language as one of their native tongues? What is the structure of a linguistic community in which native speakers are only a tiny minority? The Universal Esperanto Association (UEA) is the largest Esperanto organisation in the world. Its annual congress attracts several thousand participants every year. The programme includes cultural, political and scientific sessions, but most importantly, the annual congress gives Esperantists from around the world the chance to meet. This year, UEA has decided to open its conference to scholars who want to learn more about the unique linguistic and sociological structure of the Esperanto movement. This programme is offered in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, an independent research institute whose activities include editing the journal "Language Problems and Language Planning". We are not aiming to convince linguists to learn Esperanto; our aim is to show that Esperanto is an interesting object of study in its own right. The annual meeting of the worldwide Esperanto-speaking tribe, the 84th World Congress of Esperanto, will take place from the 31st of July to the 8th of August in the International Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. You are invited to attend this congress and observe it at leisure; the usual congress fee will be waived for professional linguists, but please let us know in advance if you are planning to attend. You will be free to mingle with the people, interview, record, videotape, or undertake other research activities. We will try to provide interpreters where necessary. If you wish you may also take a course in order to get an understanding of the basic structure of the language. The World Congress of Esperanto always includes a series of Esperanto Studies sessions. If you want to give a talk on contact linguistics or international/interethnic language problems, please let us know. You may also be interested in the Nitobe symposium, a two-day symposium, on 2nd-3rd August, on "Globalization and Language Diversity", with several well known speakers, which will focus on language policy and international relations. Again, if you would like to give an oral or written contribution, please inform us. We will get back in touch with you. For more information on Esperanto Studies and planned languages, we recommend the following sites: http://magi.com/~mfettes/studies.html http://www.snafu.de/~ubecker/gesellsc.htm http://htliu.yeah.net You can also receive an overview of Esperanto Studies and Interlinguistics, a bibliography on the subject and a brief description of the structure and organisation of the World Congress. For further information, and assistance with accomodation in Berlin, please contact: Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems Nieuwe Binnenweg, 176 NL-3015 BJ Rotterdam The Netherlands From nicholas at uci.edu Sun Apr 18 15:36:29 1999 From: nicholas at uci.edu (Nick Nicholas) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 11:36:29 EDT Subject: TOC: History of Language 5.1 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Issue 5.1 of _History of Language_ (formerly _Dhumbadji! Journal for the History of Language_) has now appeared, featuring: R. Lagerberg: The stress of Russian Adjectives Containing the Suffix -iv(yj) P. Sidwell: A report on the status and distribution of Bahnaric languages and speakers on the Boloven Plateau, Lao PDR S. Levin: Reply to the Review of _Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies_ The web page of the journal and the Association for the History of Languages have moved with me to California, and are now on http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Work/ahl.html . Subscription details are availble from the site. http://www.tlg.edu.au/~opoudjis mailto://nicholas at uci.edu NICK NICHOLAS. Assoc. Specialist, THESAURUS LINGUAE GRAECAE, UCI, USA Such a lack of true education is finally also attested for the common administration of the time, both secular and religious; had they not lost their brain, they would not have lost their kingdom three hundred years hence. (Adamantios Korais on Byzantium, _Miscellanea_, 1828). From decl at netgazer.com.ph Thu Apr 22 12:38:06 1999 From: decl at netgazer.com.ph (decl) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:38:06 EDT Subject: international conference Message-ID: Would it be possible to circulate a call for papers and invitation to participate in an international conference through your mailing list? The Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines is sponsoring a conference entitled "Ruptures and Departures: Language and Culture in Southeast Asia" on 19-21 January 2000. We would like to reach as many people as possible. Thank you. Troy Barrios Department of English and Comparative Literature University of the Philippines -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vcard.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 377 bytes Desc: Card for Department of English and Comparative Literature College of Arts and Letters URL: