28.450, Calls: Anthro Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/UK

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Subject: 28.450, Calls: Anthro Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/UK

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:45:21
From: Elvis Yevudey [yevudeye at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Minority Languages in New Media

Full Title: Minority Languages in New Media 

Date: 27-Apr-2017 - 28-Apr-2017
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Elvis Yevudey
Meeting Email: minoritylang2017 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://minoritylanguagesnewmedia2017.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

This seminar is intended to identify and discuss emerging trends in the study
of minority languages in new media and technology. This includes the ways in
which minority languages are supported through their presence in new media,
and how minority language users are making use of their languages in digital
landscapes traditionally dominated by global languages such as English.

The seminar seeks to focus on emerging trends in the use of minority languages
in new media within the European and African contexts. The European and
African contexts differ in a number of aspects such as degree of linguistic
diversity, socioeconomic development, political engagement in linguistic
issues, and education systems and quality. However, they are being affected
increasingly by similar pressures resulting from globalisation, such as the
use of new media and technology and the dominance of global or majority
languages to the threat of minority languages. New Media refers to digital
communication platforms such as online news sites, blogs, wikis, Facebook,
Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and other Social Media.

The seminar will draw out the similarities in these contexts, which are often
perceived to be divergent, and to highlight and strengthen the ways in which
minority language issues can be studied and addressed across Europe and
Africa. While often minority language issues are viewed as unique to specific
locations, this seminar will provide a platform to discuss and evaluate
minority language issues through a global lens. As growing use of new media
and technologies are influencing the use of languages globally, the seminar
will highlight how minority languages are utilised in these contexts and how
minority language speakers are using their languages in these new online
environments.

The seminar will highlight research which are currently being undertaken into
the minority language contexts to establish what the current pressing issues
and emergent ideas are, and to highlight how current research into minority
languages can provide new ways to address the preservation and revitalisation
of minority languages.

While the term ‘minority’ languages escape a consensus definition, it will be
used broadly to refer to any and all languages spoken in, or across, nation
states which are not the majority languages. The appropriateness of this
definition as well as the appropriateness of the term ‘minority’ languages
will indeed be an area for discussion at the seminar.

The seminar will focus on the active participation of doctoral students and
early career researchers, bringing together individuals who are currently
involved in researching contemporary issues in minority languages. 

As part of the seminar, we will establish a network of doctoral and early
career researchers working on contemporary issues in minority languages in
Europe and Africa.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Lutz Marten (SOAS, London)
Dr Jonathan Morris (Cardiff University)

Call for Papers:

Slots of 20 minutes for a paper presentation plus 10 minutes for questions.
There will be a poster session in the seminar programme. Submissions should
include the following:

1. Title
2. Short abstract of no more than 300 words
3. Type of presentation: paper / poster
4. On a separate sheet the (first) author's postal and e-mail address, and the
names and affiliations of the authors

Email abstracts to: minoritylang2017 at gmail.com

Proposals will be evaluated by a team of reviewers according to the following:

- Appropriateness and significance of the topic to the seminar theme
- Clarity of organisation and presentation
- If an empirical study, soundness of research design, stated questions, data
sources and data collection procedures, as well as analytic approach
- In the case of theoretical papers, theoretical/conceptual framework,
relevance of topic into current thinking and strength of contribution to the
field

All proposals must be for original unpublished work. Papers presented at the
seminar will be prepared for a special issue in an open access journal which
will be available to BAAL members and wider readership. 

Key Dates:

- Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Monday, 20 February 2017
- Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, 1 March 2017
- Registration opens: Wednesday, 1 March 2017
- Submission of scholarship application: Sunday, 5 March 2017
- Registration closes: Friday, 31 March 2017
- Seminar: 27 – 28 April 2017

Registration Fees:

Student: £25

BAAL member: £30
Non-BAAL member: £35

Scholarships:

There will be two scholarship awards to postgraduate students and early career
researchers (the latter defined as being within 2 years of PhD completion) who
had a paper or poster accepted for the seminar and who would otherwise be
unable to attend. The scholarship will help towards the cost of travel up to
£50.

If you would like to apply for the scholarship, please complete the attached
application form and submit it to minoritylang2017 at gmail.com by Sunday, 5
March 2017.

The scholarship application form can also be downloaded from
https://minoritylanguagesnewmedia2017.wordpress.com/scholarships/

Seminar Coordinators:

Elvis Yevudey (Aston University, Birmingham)
Colin Reilly (University of Glasgow)

Please spread the word to interested colleagues.

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