28.3967, Calls: Anthro Ling, History of Ling, Lang Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Translation/Italy

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Subject: 28.3967, Calls: Anthro Ling, History of Ling, Lang Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Translation/Italy

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:45:18
From: Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez [R.Fernandezrodriguez at uva.nl]
Subject: 10th International Conference of Missionary Linguistics

 
Full Title: 10th International Conference of Missionary Linguistics 

Date: 21-Mar-2018 - 24-Mar-2018
Location: Rome, Italy 
Contact Person: Sapienza Università di Roma Dipartimento Istituto di Studi Orientali
Meeting Email: missionarylinguistics2018 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://web.uniroma1.it/2018missionarylinguistics/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2017 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Missionary Linguistics focuses on older texts
(colonial, postcolonial, mainly from missionaries) with the following
objectives: the history of linguistics, linguistic documentation, translation
studies and sociocultural analysis. The aim of historical linguistics is to
describe older stages of languages as well as (processes of) language change,
while the history of linguistics studies early thinking on languages,
linguistic typologies and structures. These studies are often interrelated
with those of the cultural context in which colonial and postcolonial
societies developed. Non-Western languages are our main focus.

The cognitive appropriation of foreign cultural givens and the transcultural
processes such as transference and translation implicated in these processes
(based on intercultural encounters and interactions between the European
missionaries and the speakers of the various indigenous languages and cultures
in the Americas, Asia or Africa can be considered activities of one party
colonizing or only influencing the other party. Within this framework, the
learning, recording and studying of the ‘local’ languages by the missionaries
can be described as complex processes of perception of the language and
culture (semantics and pragmatics) of the other party and of the one in
confrontation with the other, processes at the interface between subjective
and socially constructed knowledge.

In the field of the history of applied linguistics, the perspective of
language study, documentation, and teaching was radically changing during the
age of the great discoveries. In Europe, grammars and dictionaries of the
vernacular language appeared, and in the Americas the colonization and
evangelization of the indigenous tribes went hand in hand with linguistic
studies, which often antedate the documentation of many European “national”
languages. These pioneering works contain many innovative aspects on all
levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and even
beyond (translation theory and practices, rhetoric, stylistics, cultural
studies, anthropology), since the languages they encountered often did not
share the same features the Westerners were familiar with.

The X International Conference on Missionary Linguistics (Rome, March 21-24,
2018) focuses on Asia. From the perspective of the History of Linguistics, the
languages encountered in Asia were a great challenge for missionaries who
based their work mainly on the Greco-Latin model, which was developed for the
description of Greek and Latin, (which puts particular emphasis on
inflectional and derivational morphology). The tonal systems in several
varieties of Chinese, Vietnamese, the agglutinative patterns of Dravidian
languages or Japanese, the concept of “transitivity” and “voice” in
Austronesian languages are just a few examples which can be studied from the
perspective of the history of linguistics. In the rich lexicographical
production of missionaries, a great deal of information can be studied about
“cultural encounters”.


Call for Papers:

Deadlines:

December, 1, 2017 (max 500 w.): submission of abstracts:
January 15, 2018: Notification about the approval of the abstracts
February 1: Preliminary program on this website.

Since the venue of the present edition of the conference is Rome, papers about
the history of Asian missions, archives and librarian collections related to
the history of missionary orders will be welcomed, in order to provide new
research possibilities to all participants.

The conference venues are the Department of Oriental Studies of Rome
University and the Center for Chinese Studies of Urbaniana University. During
the conference, a visit to the Propaganda Fide archive will be offered to all
participants.

It is one of our aims to bring scholars together who are working on texts
written in different meta-languages, such as French, Spanish, Portuguese,
English and Latin (Propaganda Fide) describing Asian languages. We welcome
contributions from any religious background, Catholic (Jesuit, Franciscan,
Augustinian, Dominican), Protestant, and Greek-Orthodox (Siberian languages).

As in the previous conferences, any other contribution outside our main topic
(Asia) is welcome (time limit: 1850/ 1900).

Abstracts of 500 words or less in length should be sent to
missionarylinguistics2018 at gmail.com by December 1, 2017.




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