30.510, Calls: Sign Language; Sociolinguistics/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-510. Thu Jan 31 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.510, Calls: Sign Language; Sociolinguistics/Italy

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:13:04
From: Carlo Geraci [carlo.geraci76 at gmail.com]
Subject: Language Policies, Recognition and Cultural Identity: The Case of Sign Languages

 
Full Title: Language Policies, Recognition and Cultural Identity: The Case of Sign Languages 

Date: 19-Sep-2019 - 21-Sep-2019
Location: Como, Italy 
Contact Person: Carlo Geraci
Meeting Email: carlo.geraci76 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/ijnsignlanguagegroup/home/events/sli-2019-workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 

Call Deadline: 22-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

This is a workshop of the 53rd conference of the Italian Linguistic Society
(SLI).

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(2006) states that the acceding countries shall recognize and promote the use
of sign languages (art. 21), facilitate their acquisition and promote the
linguistic identity of deaf communities (art. 24). 

After more than ten years, few countries in the world have officially
recognized their sign language and prepared language policies. Italy and the
Netherlands are the only two countries in the European Union that have not
recognised their sign language yet. Three are the main objectives of the
workshop: to study the paths that led to the recognition or non-recognition of
national sign languages; to evaluate the explicit and implicit language
policies that have as their main element the use of sign languages; to deepen
the identity traits of deaf communities.


Call for Papers:

Please check info at the workshop webpage:
https://sites.google.com/site/ijnsignlanguagegroup/home/events/sli-2019-worksh
op

The languages of the workshop will be: Italian, English and a sign language
(LIS or ASL/IS). Communication proposals may be submitted in one of the
workshop languages. 

Proposals should be sent to carlo.geraci76 at gmail.com
Deadline for abstract submission: Friday Feb. 22, 2019

Proposals in sign language must be submitted in mp4 format and may not exceed
five minutes in duration. To ensure equal treatment of all participants in the
selection process, it will be required not to make anonymous the communication
proposal. The selection process will be ''single blind'' as the reviewers will
remain anonymous.

In addition to the invited speaker, we expect to select at least five
speakers. 

The workshop aims to solicit contributions covering a wide range of research
interests, methods and levels of analysis, including:

- Description of explicit language policies adopted by countries that have
recognised sign languages.
- Description of the implicit language policies adopted by countries that have
not recognised sign languages.
- The contribution of the Deaf community (local or international) in the
orientation of language policies.
- The contribution of scientific research to the orientation of language
policies.
- Benefits obtained by deaf communities with particular reference to the
protection of the language (e.g. documentation of the language, accessibility
in public life, etc.) and its transmission (e.g. development of programmes to
facilitate early acquisition in deaf children born to hearing families, status
of bilingual schools, etc.).
- Minority languages, social identity and cognitive development: how and why
sign languages need to be recognised.
- The future of deaf communities: languages at risk of extinction and loss of
identity.




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