23.2806, Confs: Sociolinguistics/Japan

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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:59:18
From: Satoshi Nambu [southernsugar26 at gmail.com]
Subject: New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific 2

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New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific 2 
Short Title: NWAV Asia-Pacific 2 

Date: 01-Aug-2012 - 04-Aug-2012 
Location: Tokyo, Japan 
Contact: Yoshiyuki Asahi 
Contact Email: nwavap02 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/socioling/nwavap02/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 2nd meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific Region (NWAV-AP2) will be held at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, Japan.

Date: August 1 (Wednesday) -  4 (Saturday), 2012
Place: The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Tachikawa City, Tokyo
Japan

Invited Speakers:

J.K. Chambers, Title 'Professor Shibata's *haha* and Other Sociolinguistic Insights'
Junko Hibiya, Title 'The velar nasal in Japanese revisited'

While the Western study of sociolinguistic variation and change emerged in the mid 1960s, highly quantitative work on variation and change has existed in Japan since 1930. The methodological and analytical approach used in the early research of Japanese dialectology had its roots in the particular socio-historical context of the region and established its own unique foundations. Meeting in Tokyo in 2012 allows NWAV Asia-Pacific to highlight and re-acknowledge the long and rich history of research on language variation and change in this region, which has often been overlooked in the field of sociolinguistics. The conference will also continue the tradition established at NWAV-AP1 of showcasing the innovative, descriptive, philological, historical, and socially informed research being conducted by emerging and established scholars in some of the world's most fertile arenas of language and dialect contact.

The first meeting of NWAV Asia-Pacific was held at the University of Delhi, India in February 2011. The conference involved many international scholars and valuable cross-cultural exchanges of research ideas and experiences. For further information about the first meeting of the conference series, please see the following site:

http://nwavap.du.ac.in/

NWAV Asia-Pacific 2 Organizing Committee:

Yoshiyuki Asahi, Chair, NINJAL, Japan
Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Aichi University, Japan
Kenjiro Matsuda, Kobe Shoin University, Japan
Takuichiro Onishi, NINJAL, Japan
Ichiro Ota, Kagoshima University, Japan
Shoji Takano, Hokusei Gakuen University, Japan
Shoichi Yokoyama, NINJAL, Japan
Sakiko Kajino, Georgetown University, USA
Satoshi Nambu, NINJAL, Japan

NWAV Asia-Pacific 2 Steering Committee:

Shobha Satyanath, University of Delhi, India
James N. Stanford, Dartmouth College, USA
Victoria Rau, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Yoshiyuki Asahi, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan 

You can register online from:

http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/socioling/nwavap02/registration.html

Schedule of Events:

August 1 (Wednesday)

1pm - 6pm, Workshops
6:30pm, Opening reception

August 2 (Thursday)

9am - 11am, Invited talk by J.K. Chambers
11:15am - 6:45pm, Oral and poster presentations

August 3 (Friday)

9am - 5:30pm, Oral and poster presentations
5:30pm - 7:30pm, Invited talk by Junko Hibiya
8pm, Special Conference Dinner

August 4 (Saturday)

9am - 12:15pm, Oral and poster presentations

The details are available from the conference website (http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/socioling/nwavap02/).







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