[Linganth] AAA CFP: Expert Practices: Ethical Considerations in Disseminating Findings About Non-Dominant Languages

[Catherine Rebecca Rhodes]

Please consider participating in the following panel and share with others who may be interested.

CFP: AAA Annual Meeting (San Jose, California, Nov. 14-18, 2018)
Conference theme: Change in the Anthropological Imagination: Resistance, Resilience, Adaptation


Draft panel title: Expert Practices: Ethical Considerations in Disseminating Findings About Non-Dominant Languages

Draft panel abstract (to be expanded):
In her 2002 article, "'Expert Rhetorics' in Advocacy for Endangered Languages: Who Is Listening, and What Do They Hear?," Hill argues that there are three "ubiquitous"  themes in  "expert rhetoric on language endangerment": "universal ownership," "hyperbolic valorization," and "enumeration" (120). This panel engages with Hill's concerns about work on "endangered" languages and addresses the following questions: Of these three themes, which continue to be ubiquitous in scholarly work on non-dominant languages? And, what new themes have become salient in work on these languages? Panelists address contemporary ethical considerations when conducting research on non-dominant languages and with speakers of these languages and give particular consideration to issues related to producing and disseminating findings about these languages and/or the people who speak them.

Panelists are asked to co-author their papers with a native speaker from a local community of the language in question, in order to provide a perspective from an individual who continues to be rooted primarily in the community in question and from someone who tends to reside outside of it.

Reference cited:
Hill, J. (2002). "Expert Rhetorics" in Advocacy for Endangered Languages: Who is Listening, and What Do They Hear? Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 12(2), 119-133.

Please send abstracts (250 words max) with paper title and presenter information to Catherine Rhodes (rhodesc at unm.edu) by the end of the day on Saturday, April 7. If included on the panel, you will need to have current AAA membership and registration for the 2018 meeting by April 16. For more information on the meeting:
http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/landing.aspx?ItemNumber=14722&navItemNumber=566


Thank you kindly for your consideration.

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Catherine R. Rhodes

Visiting Lecturer

Department of Anthropology

Anthropology Patio 107

University of New Mexico

rhodesc at unm.edu

+1-505-277-4524 [main office]
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