27.2736, Calls: Socioling/India

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Subject: 27.2736, Calls: Socioling/India

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:47:06
From: Nicholas Ostler [nicholas at ostler.net]
Subject: Language Colonisation & Endangerment: Long-term Effects, Echoes and Reactions

 
Full Title: Language Colonisation & Endangerment: Long-term Effects, Echoes and Reactions 
Short Title: FEL XX 

Date: 09-Dec-2016 - 12-Dec-2016
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India 
Contact Person: Nicholas Ostler
Meeting Email: nicholas at ostler.net
Web Site: http://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2016 

Meeting Description:

European domination, all over the world, is too recent to be forgotten. But
colonial periods extended over different times in different continents:
European colonialism had its peak earlier, for example, in the Americas than
in Asia or Africa. But colonialism with linguistic consequences occurred also
in quite different eras: e.g. in western Europe under Roman domination, North
Africa under the Arabs, South-east Asia under Indians and then the Chinese
(1st millennium AD).

In the colonial period, how was the use of local traditional languages, and
indeed other languages of wider communication, restricted? (Complex
interrelations grew up within large empires and trade networks, especially in
South-east Asia, India, east Africa and the Americas.) Smaller language
communities may have been hard pressed to survive in larger political
administrations.

The differing status of languages within a territory may also have been a
feature of colonial rule and later political dispensations, since often
post-colonial policy begins with a crisis in the choice of which languages to
support. Some languages may have had a purely oral existence; but this may
have been tacitly endorsed by institutions, or been actively discouraged.

What means were used to channel communication and expression into other
languages? We shall consider action on place-names, as well as the roles
appointed for languages in the economy, military spheres, public-health
policy, education and government, and other features of social life such as
cultural activities.

Subsequently, how have language planning and liberation struggles made a
difference - positive or negative - to the use and prospects of indigenous
languages? Have language and/or education rights, for example, been a useful
tool of policy? Has technology - from the introduction of literacy though to
mobile phones - played a significant role in changes? Are current norms of
language documentation all too reminiscent of colonial attitudes to smaller
communities?


2nd Call for Papers: 

Along with the change of this conference's date to 9-12 December, we have
extended the abstract deadline as above, to 1 July 2016. Abstracts will be up
to 500 words. Notification of acceptance will now be by 18 July 2016, and
completed papers for the FEL XX Proceedings will be due by 30 September 2016.




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