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<big><small><b>Call for Papers </b></small><br>
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<small>W</small></b><small><b>orld-Conference on
Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties:</b></small><br>
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<a class="" href="http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org/ndv-conf-graz-2015/">http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org/ndv-conf-graz-2015/</a><br>
</small></big><big><small>Organized by the International
Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric
Language<small>s </small>(WGNDV)</small><b><br>
<small>Conference</small></b><small><b> date: </b>July
08–11, 2015</small> <br>
<small><b>Location:</b></small> <small>University of Graz,
Austria</small><br>
<b><small>Submission deadline:</small> </b><small>March 30,
2015 </small></big><br>
<b>Notification of acceptance: </b>April 15, 2015<br>
<b>Publication of papers</b>: A volume of selected papers is
to be published by Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt. <br>
All papers for the conference and the publication will be
peer-reviewed.<br>
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The conference will also have a section on language technology
providing scholars </big></tt><tt><big>the possibility to
present their methods and approaches in corpus linguistics,
natural language processing and the computational treatment of
linguistic variation existing between and within national
varieties.<br>
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<b>Invitation:</b><br>
We would like to invite scholars from around the world to
participate in the 4th conference organized by the Working
Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages
(WGNDV). <br>
The conference is devoted to the description of pluricentric
languages and in particular of non-dominant national varieties
of plc. languages. <br>
These are the varieties that are small by the number of their
speakers and their symbolic power, and are not the primary
norm-setting centres of the language. They may often be
falsely attributed the status of a “dialect”, and have little
or no codification of their norms. Typically, nd-varieties
often have to legitimate their norms towards the dominant
varieties etc. <br>
The previous conferences of the WGNDV (see <a class="" href="http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org...conferences">www.pluricentriclanguages.org...conferences</a>)
have shown that non-dominant varieties around the world have
many linguistic and sociolinguistic features in common. We
would therefore like to deepen our knowledge and invite
scholars from around the world to take part in the conference
and give insight into the situation</big></tt></small><br clear="all"><br>-- <a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=var-l;e7138e92.1501">https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=var-l;e7138e92.1501</a><br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<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>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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