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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*** Call for Papers***<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">LPP2014 - Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference 2014<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">September 4-6, 2014<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Calgary<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference Website: <a href="http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/lpp" target="_blank">www.educ.ucalgary.ca/lpp</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The online submission system is now open!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Plenary Speakers:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:2.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fernand de Varennes (University of Hong Kong, University of Pretoria, Vytautas Magnus University)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Eve Haque (York University)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This international conference will be held at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. We invite papers and colloquia that approach language policy from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, and in a variety of contexts, from the local/institutional to national/global. We invite abstracts (300 words maximum) for submissions in any of the following areas:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:2.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language policy and political theory<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Official language policies<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language policy and lingua franca<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Heritage language policies<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language policy and globalization<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ideologies and language policies<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language policies in school settings<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">National identities and language policies<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language policy and the economics of the workplace<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Non-official languages in mainstream classrooms<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language policies and social mobility<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language attrition, language revitalization and language policies<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Language policies and transnational communities<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The deadline for submissions is <b>February 28, 2014</b>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two experts in the field. Final decisions will be sent to authors by April 15, 2014.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Each paper presentation should be 30 minutes, including discussion time. Colloquia can be for 100 minutes (3 papers) and 180 minutes (up to 6 papers). Papers should be presented in English. You can submit a maximum of two contributions, one as first/sole author and one as second author or discussant.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information, please visit our website at <a href="http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/lpp" target="_blank">www.educ.ucalgary.ca/lpp</a> or contact us by e-mail: <a href="https://webmail.ucalgary.ca/src/compose.php?send_to=lpp%40ucalgary.ca" target="_blank">lpp@ucalgary.ca</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We look forward to seeing you in Calgary in September 2014.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tom Ricento<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference Organizer<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------
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