30.2193, Calls: History of Linguistics/Argentina

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Subject: 30.2193, Calls: History of Linguistics/Argentina

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 23:47:38
From: Luisa Domínguez [domingluisa at gmail.com]
Subject: 11th International Conference of Missionary Linguistics “Continuities and breaks in 19th century missionary linguistics”

 
Full Title: 11th International Conference of Missionary Linguistics “Continuities and breaks in 19th century missionary linguistics” 

Date: 03-Mar-2020 - 05-Mar-2020
Location: Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina 
Contact Person: Instituto de Lingüística UNLPam
Meeting Email: linguisticamisionera2020 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://missionarylinguistics2020.wordpress.com/organization/ 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2019 

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.


Call for Papers:

This 11th Conference proposes as a central topic -but not exclusive- the
situation of Missionary Linguistics during the 19th century. In a context in
which new colonial expansionist powers (and new missionary enterprises)
emerge, the number of ''exotic'' languages to understand, describe and
document increases substantially. This period, marked by linguistic diversity
in space and time - languages that come from Africa, Australia, and northern
and southern America, as well as the romantic interest for dialects as a
heritage of the past - favours reflections about the relationship between
language, thought and culture. The knowledge of different languages also
contributes to the development of comparative linguistics, inspired in turn by
advances in the natural sciences.

Some possible lines of research:

- Missionary linguistics in the 19th century: inheritances and innovations
regarding methodology, objectives, recipients and pedagogical strategies;
- Linguistic works of the missionaries in the context of 19th-century
colonialism and decolonization processes;
- Reception and use of the missionary linguistic documentation for academic
purposes;
- Contributions of missionary linguistics for the development of modern
linguistic theory;
- Technical advances in the (re)edition of missionary sources.

As in the previous Conferences, contributions outside the proposed topics are
equally welcome, as long as they conform with the time limit of ca. 1920.

Abstracts Submissions:

Abstracts of papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name
of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and
a summary of the paper (maximally 500 words).

For further information on how to submit, contact
linguisticamisionera2020 at gmail.com




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