28.5335, Calls: Iranian, Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Ling & Lit, Text/Corpus Ling/Sweden

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Subject: 28.5335, Calls: Iranian, Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Ling & Lit, Text/Corpus Ling/Sweden

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:28:39
From: Christina van der Wal Anonby [oral.narration at lingfil.uu.se]
Subject: Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures

 
Full Title: Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures 
Short Title: ONIC 

Date: 07-Jun-2018 - 09-Jun-2018
Location: Uppsala, Sweden 
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Carina Jahani
Meeting Email: oral.narration at lingfil.uu.se
Web Site: http://www2.lingfil.uu.se/onic 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Iranian 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

In honour of Professor Bo Utas on his 80th birthday

Oral narration, one of the verbal arts intrinsic to human nature, has
nevertheless been much less studied than its written counterparts. Oral
traditions are central to Iranian cultures, but are facing a threat of
extinction even more dire than the loss of Iranian indigenous languages
generally. Features of orality in these societies are endangered by media and
schooling, and from a social emphasis on literacy, especially in the dominant
languages of the region. In response, governments and cultural groups in Iran
have taken a stronger interest in oral traditions, and produced material
records reflecting the richness and diversity of Iranian verbal arts. This
conference will bring together international experts to examine varied
perspectives on oral narration among ethnic groups within the Iranian-speaking
cultural sphere. It will encompass story-tellling, poetry, epics, and other
oral narrative traditions, and take in approaches from folklore, ethnology,
typology, discourse linguistics, and social anthropology. An aim of the
conference is to foster the exchange of methods and theoretic models to apply
to oral literature and discourse analysis, and to cultivate further research
among different academic disciplines.


Call for Papers:

Submissions are welcome on any aspect of Oral narration in Iranian Cultures.

Individual authors can submit maximally one joint, and one single-authored
paper. Presentations are for 20 minute talks, plus 10 minute discussions. We
will also accommodate a certain number of poster-presentations. All abstracts
will be anonymously reviewed.

Guidelines for Abstract Submission:

Abstract texts may be maximally two pages long, including references. Please
note that we can only accept abstracts in pdf format.

Abstracts should be sent to oral.narration at lingfil.uu.se

Please write ''abstract submission'' in the subject area.
Don't forget to include the full names and affiliation(s) of the author(s) in
the message accompanying your abstract. The abstract, however, must be
anonymous and in PDF-format.

Important Dates:

Final deadline for abstract submission: 31 December 2017
Date of notification of acceptance/rejection: 24 February 2018
Conference dates: 7–9 June 2018




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