30.1968, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Australia

Wed May 8 21:51:56 UTC 2019

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1968. Wed May 08 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1968, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Australia

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn
Managing Editor: Becca Morris
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Peace Han, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Julian Dietrich
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 17:50:21
From: Nicholas Ostler [n at ostler.net]
Subject: Causes of Language Endangerment

Full Title: Causes of Language Endangerment 
Short Title: FEL XXIII 2019 

Date: 14-Dec-2019 - 16-Dec-2019
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia 
Contact Person: Jaky Troy
Meeting Email: drjakytroy at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2019 

Meeting Description:

About the conference:
The Sydney Centre for Language Research at The University of Sydney and the
Foundation for Endangered Languages, in this United Nations Year of Indigenous
Languages, cordially invite scholars, community organizations and community
members working on issues and challenges facing endangered languages,
including documentation and archiving, to join the International conference on
causes of language endangerment, to take place in Sydney, Australia on 14-16th
December 2019.

This event is FEL XXIII, the 23rd of a series of annual conferences of the
Foundation of Endangered Languages, and takes place during the UN’s
International Year of Indigenous Languages.

The conference language is English. Printed proceedings will be published.

Main theme: Causes of language endangerment

In the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages we face ongoing and
rapid decline not only of Indigenous languages but of the world’s linguistic
diversity. Why do languages become endangered? And what solutions might help
arrest this decline? These are questions we seek to answer in this year’s
conference. Many causes of language endangerment have been identified –
ranging from speaker choices, to colonial interventions and invasions – that
have forced communities to abandon or radically modify their languages.
However, studies of language endangerment have not been brought together in a
global discussion to look for commonalities and differences in the experiences
and circumstances of endangerment.

While Indigenous languages in particular are in rapid decline, there are also
many contact languages, pidgins and creoles, and varieties of dominant world
languages that are also endangered. Sources such as Ethnologue aim to provide
an index of the ‘vitality’ of each of the world’s languages, noting that while
not all languages are endangered and that many have ‘oral and literary
traditions and are being used for a wide variety of functions ... other
communities, which have not achieved that status for their languages, are
nevertheless taking steps to preserve the vitality of their languages by
finding new ways of using them.’ We ask at this conference not only what is
causing language endangerment but also what are successful solutions to the
global decline in linguistic diversity.

Special theme: 2019 United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages
See https://en.iyil2019.org/

In 2016, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2019 as the
International Year of Indigenous Languages, based on an estimate that 40 per
cent of the world’s 6,700 languages are in danger and noting that most of
these are Indigenous languages thus putting the cultures and knowledge systems
to which they belong at risk. It is a matter of urgency that we understand
what is causing these languages to become endangered and potentially to
‘disappear’.

There is rarely one single cause of language decline and it is often not clear
what makes a community stop speaking their language or to alter its
communicative capacity. While sometimes it has been a clear result of the
invasion and subjugation of Indigenous peoples, often much more subtle factors
have led to people themselves devaluing their own languages and choosing to
switch to another language for reasons associated with improved access to
resources, prestige or power.

We invite papers that describe research into, or experience of, both causes
and solutions to endangerment of Indigenous languages.

Call for Papers:

We invite submission of abstracts related to the themes above. Abstracts
should be in English, no longer than 500 words, and must include 3 to 5
keywords.

All abstracts should be submitted using the EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxiii2019

At the conference, each accepted presentation will be assigned 30 minutes: we
recommend allowing 5 to 10 minutes of this time for questions and discussion.

Notes:

accepted authors must submit their paper for the Proceedings in advance of the
conference, by 30 October 2019
For special rates to attend, you must hold a current membership of the
Foundation for Endangered Languages to present at the conference. For details
of membership, see the FEL website membership page

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 1 July 2019
Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2019
Deadline for submission of full papers: 30 October 2019
Early bird registration starts: TBA
Early bird registration ends: TBA
Registration deadline: TBA
Conference: 14-16th December 2019

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
               https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1968	
----------------------------------------------------------