28.3095, Calls: Lang Documentation, Socioling/Portugal

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Subject: 28.3095, Calls: Lang Documentation, Socioling/Portugal

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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:56:11
From: Vera Ferreira [vferreira at cidles.eu]
Subject: Communities in Control

 
Full Title: Communities in Control 
Short Title: FEL XXI 

Date: 19-Oct-2017 - 21-Oct-2017
Location: Alcanena, Portugal 
Contact Person: Vera Ferreira
Meeting Email: info at cidles.eu
Web Site: http://www.cidles.eu/events/mercator-soas-cidles-fel-2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

During the last two decades many regional minority and endangered languages
have been documented, a process which has led to the creation of different
archived collections. This has been, however, mostly, a scholar-driven effort
and the concerned language communities have, themselves, not been involved in
it and have not identified with the documentation projects. Most of the data
thus produced, especially archived material, has, consequently, been too
little used by communities for their own initiatives.

This situation requires an urgent shift in the research model and archive
interfaces. It is extremely important to work directly and in collaboration
with the speech communities but crucially, also, to empower these communities
and provide them with the ability to participate with their own expertise in
the definition and implementation of research agendas and projects, thus
making it possible for their needs and interests to determine that
implementation.

Whilst it is understandable that language documentation should follow the
initiatives of scholars as well as communities, revitalisation, for its part,
if it is to be successful, needs to be entirely community-driven.
Revitalisation should be a bottom-up process, motivated, desired and designed
by the community; it must be integrated into its everyday life and inseparable
from it.


Call for Papers:

This 3-day event aims to focus on community-driven activities.
Abstracts are invited for papers on the following subtopics:

Community-driven revitalization projects:
- Use of archives for language safeguarding, revitalization and teaching
- Connecting communities to archived collections: content, interface, language
- Development of linguistic tourism: connecting language revitalization to
local economic development as a way of increasing the status of local
languages

Any abstract should be in English, and up to 500 words in length.
It must include 3 to 5 keywords, and be sent as Word or PDF to both
info at cidles.eu and n at ostler.net by July 23rd, 2017.

In the body of the email, but separate from the abstract, please include the
following information:
author(s), institution(s), phone number(s), e-mail(s).

Each presentation will be assigned 30 minutes: we recommend allowing 5 to 10
minutes of this time for questions and discussion.

Accepted authors are expected to submit a paper for the Proceedings in advance
of the conference. They will receive a style-sheet with their notice of
acceptance.




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