<div dir="ltr">: [LINGANTH] FW: Call for papers AAA 2014<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kephart, Ronald</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rkephart@unf.edu">rkephart@unf.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:56 PM<br><br><br><br><br>Folks, forwarding this, just in case…<br>
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From: Kamala Russell <<a href="mailto:kamala@berkeley.edu">kamala@berkeley.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kamala@berkeley.edu">kamala@berkeley.edu</a>>><br>
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2014 12:26 PM<br>
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Subject: Call for papers AAA 2014<br>
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Hi,<br>
Is it possible for me to forward along the following call for papers or does an administrator need to do so?<br>
Best,<br>
Kamala Russell<br>
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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS, AAA 2014<br>
Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological<br>
Association 2014<br>
Location: Washington DC<br>
Panel Title: TBA<br>
Organizers: Terra Edwards and Kamala Russell<br>
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Edward Sapir famously claimed that "language is an essentially perfect<br>
means of expression and communication among every known people" (1995<br>
[1927]:7). In other words, languages do everything their speakers require<br>
of them. However, recent scholarship in linguistics and anthropology has<br>
drawn our attention to systems that do not satisfy this stipulation. We<br>
know grammars articulate to and within materially, affectively,<br>
semiotically, and institutionally organized worlds. But, some linguistic<br>
and semiotic systems have been outstripped by their worlds, whether through<br>
rapid socio-historical change, such as colonization, development,<br>
urbanization, or labor migration (Bakker 1997; Gal 1979; Hanks 2010, Hymes<br>
1971, Inoue 2011, Povinelli 2011); differences in language proficiencies<br>
and capacities (Gilmore, 2011, Goodwin 2004); or differences in material<br>
conditions of access and acquisition (Brentari et al. 2012, Goldin-Meadow<br>
and Feldman 1977, Morgan and Mayberry 2012, Sandler et al. 2005, Senghas<br>
and Coppola 2001, Sicoli 2013). Such circumstances may lead to language<br>
loss, dialect leveling, dialect divergence, rapid language change, language<br>
emergence, or the emergence of rudimentary, stripped-down, or relatively<br>
unelaborated language-like systems.<br>
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We are calling for papers that explore cases where linguistic and semiotic<br>
systems do not, or can't yet, do all of what their speakers need them to<br>
do. How do their speakers make up the difference? Do their efforts have<br>
consequences for the complexity, density, or maturity of the grammar<br>
itself? How can we synchronically describe systems that haven't caught up<br>
to the pragmatic demands placed on them? What are the linguistic and<br>
semiotic processes by which such languages play catch-up? How do people<br>
alter or institutionally bolster their communicative practices to make<br>
their language snap back into joint with their social and perceptual<br>
worlds, whether through revitalization projects or other sorts of social<br>
movements? What are the socio-political implications of doing scholarship<br>
that claims that the language in question isn't "perfect" in Sapir's sense?<br>
We welcome all papers that draw attention to the (temporary) exhaustibility<br>
of a semiotic repertoire, the impossibility of uptake, the relative<br>
complexity, density or maturity of grammars, and the methodological and<br>
ethical problems that emerge therewith.<br>
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Please send abstracts to Terra Edwards (<a href="mailto:terraedwards@berkeley.edu">terraedwards@berkeley.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:terraedwards@berkeley.edu">terraedwards@berkeley.edu</a>>) and<br>
Kamala Russell (<a href="mailto:kamala@berkeley.edu">kamala@berkeley.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kamala@berkeley.edu">kamala@berkeley.edu</a>>) by April 5, 2014.<br>
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References:<br>
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Bakker, Peter (1997). *A Language of our Own: the genesis of Michif. *New<br>
York: Oxford University Press.<br>
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Brentari, Diane, Coppola, Marie, Mazzoni, Laura and Goldin-Meadow, Susan<br>
(2012). When does a system become phonological? Handshape production in<br>
gestureres, signers, and homesigners. *Natural Language and Linguistic<br>
Theory*30, 1-31.<br>
<br>
Gal, Susan (1979). *Language Shift. *London: Academic Press.<br>
<br>
Gilmore, Perry (2011). We call it `Our Language': A children's Swahili<br>
pidgin transforms social and symbolic order on a remote hillside in<br>
up-country Kenya.*Anthropology and Education Quarterly* 42, 370-392.<br>
<br>
Goldin-Meadow, Susan and Feldman, Heidi (1977). The Development of<br>
Language-Like Communication Without a Language Model. *Science* 197, 22-24.<br>
<br>
Goodwin, Charles (2004). A Competent Speaker who Can't Speak: the Social<br>
Life of Aphasia. *Journal of Linguistic Anthropology* 14, 151-170.<br>
<br>
Hanks, William F. (2010). *Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the<br>
Cross.*Berkeley:<br>
University of California Press.<br>
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Hymes, Dell (1971). *Pidginization and Creolization of Languages. *New<br>
York: Cambridge University Press.<br>
<br>
Inoue, Miyako (2011). Stenography and Ventriloquism in Late Nineteenth<br>
Century Japan. *Language and Communication* 31, 181-190.<br>
<br>
Morgan, Hope E. and Mayberry, Rachel I. (2012). Complexity in two-handed<br>
signs in Kenyan Sign Language. *Sign Language &Linguistics* 15, 147-174.<br>
<br>
Povinelli, Elizabeth (2011). The part that has no part: enjoyment, law, and<br>
loss. *GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies* 20, 287-308.<br>
<br>
Sandler, Wendy, Meir, Irit, Padden, Carol and Aronoff, Mark (2005). The<br>
Emergence of Grammar: Systematic Structure in a New Language.*Proceedings<br>
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America* 102,<br>
2661-2665.<br>
<br>
Sapir, Edward (1995 [1927]). Language. In Ben Blount (ed.), *Language,<br>
Culture, and Society *Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland.<br>
<br>
Senghas, Ann and Coppola, Marie (2001). Children Creating Language: How<br>
Nicaraguan Sign Language Acquired a Spatial Grammar. *Psychological Science*<br>
12.<br>
Sicioli, Mark (2013). Fragments of a Language Practice: Documenting the<br>
Chinantec Whistled Speech Register. *Recovering Voices Seminar *Smithsonian<br>
Institution, Washington<br>
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