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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Dear all,</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">We are proposing a Volunteered Session on the dynamics of Indigenous multilingualism, to explore a range of sociolinguistic questions around the continuity of language
practices in ‘pre-existing’ multilingual ecologies (i.e. communities that were already multilingual prior to contact with a dominant language like English or French). The session would be open both to research on current contexts and to historical work on
multilingualism (i.e. along the lines of Rice 2005, Wilkins and Nash 2008). See below for a fuller description.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">If you are interested please first send your abstract to Jill Vaughan (</span><a href="mailto:jill.vaughan@ntnu.no)"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">jill.vaughan@ntnu.no)</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">
and Ruth Singer (</span><a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au)"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au)</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">. Full session proposals are due on 15</span><sup style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">
April. Papers are to be 15 minutes, you can find further details on the AAA website (</span><a href="http://www.americananthro.org/)"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">http://www.americananthro.org/)</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The impetus for the session is that work on aspects of multilingualism (such as on code-mixing, receptive multilingualism, language maintenance) has largely focused on the interactions of Indigenous and (post)colonial
languages, rather than those between Indigenous languages that have long co-existed prior to contact. And yet such multilingual ecologies are common throughout the world; there is evidence for widespread multilingualism, both historical and in many contexts
continuing, in many regions including the U.S., Australia, South America, Melanesia, and West Africa (e.g. Epps 2009, Evans 2012, Patrick 2012, Sutton 1991). There is much to be understood regarding the dynamics of language in these contexts: what kinds of
practices support multilingualism like this? How have marriage practices and other cultural systems interacted with language use? What is the role of variation in such multilingual spaces? Furthermore, there is a great deal to be gained through closer attention
to this topic in terms of our understanding of language maintenance and loss, as well as in advancing theory and practice in work on Indigenous multilingualism. To this end we hope to assemble a session encompassing work from diverse regions and contexts.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Epps, Patience. 2009. Language classification, language contact, and Amazonian prehistory.
</span><em style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Language and Linguistics Compass</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> 3(2). 581–606.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Evans, Nicholas. 2012. Even more diverse than we had thought: The multiplicity of Trans-Fly languages. In Nicholas Evans & Marian Klamer (eds.),
</span><em style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Language Documentation & Conservation
Special Publication No. 5, 109–149.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Patrick, Donna. 2012. Indigenous contexts. In Marilyn Martin-Jones, Adrian Blackledge & Angela Creese (eds.),
</span><em style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, 29–48. London: Routledge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Rice, Keren. 2005. Language contact, phonemic inventories, and the Athapaskan language family.
</span><em style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Linguistic Typology</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> 8(3). 321–343. doi:10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.321.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sutton, Peter. 1991. Language in Aboriginal Australia: Social dialects in a geographic idiom. In Susanne Romaine (ed</span><em style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.),
Language in Australia</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, 49–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Wilkins, David P & David Nash. 2008. The European “discovery” of a multilingual Australia: the linguistic and ethnographic successes of a failed expedition. In William McGregor (ed.),
</span><em style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics</span></em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, vol. 591, 485–507. Canberra:
Pacific Linguistics.</span><br style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">
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