<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With apologies for cross-posting, the below CFP may be of interest to some here. FYI: deadline 1st April 2015.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class="">Jonathan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Dr. M.C. Jones" <<a href="mailto:mcj11@cam.ac.uk" class="">mcj11@cam.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">24 March 2015 11:44:13 CET<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Jonathan Richard Kasstan <<a href="mailto:jrkasstan@cantab.net" class="">jrkasstan@cantab.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">**</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">The Fifth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment will take place on Friday July 31st 2015 at the Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge and Peterhouse. The theme will be:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; ">Language Endangerment and the Speaker.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; ">Alternative identities, new speech communities and changing linguistic norms.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; ">Ensuring an increase in speaker numbers is a crucial part of the successful revitalisation of an endangered language. These efforts often target schoolchildren, in the hope of re-establishing communication between generations in the endangered language, and other age-groups, who identify with the cultural context of the endangered language but who may have been denied the opportunity of acquiring it via intergenerational transmission. The recruitment of ‘new’ speakers can therefore often have a marked effect on the existing endangered language speech community in terms of its social make-up, its identity and its language practices. This conference invites papers that reflect on these issues: To what extent should reversing language shift incorporate identity planning? How do the actors of revitalization persuade members of the ‘dominant’ speech community that their current identity would be enhanced by its repackaging to include the endangered language? How successful has formal education actually been in both increasing speaker numbers and, crucially, in transmitting the endangered language in an effective way? Do ‘new’ speakers use the endangered languages in different ways from ‘traditional’ speakers and to what extent do these two groups in fact interact with each other? Do the linguistic norms and practices of ‘new’ speakers vary from those of the ‘traditional’ speakers? Does the speech of ‘new’ speakers reveal evidence of innovative linguistic features?</p></div></div><div class=""><b class="">**Deadline for receipt of abstracts (200 words) is April 1st 2015**. </b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">Abstracts should be sent to:</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">Mari Jones <<a href="mailto:mcj11@cam.ac.uk" class="">mcj11@cam.ac.uk</a>></div><div class="">Damien Mooney <<a href="mailto:damien.mooney@qub.ac.uk" class="">damien.mooney@qub.ac.uk</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For further details, please see the conference website:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/fifth-cambridge-conference-language-endangerment" class="">http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/fifth-cambridge-conference-language-endangerment</a></div><div class="">
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