30.2230, Calls: General Linguistics/Portugal

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Subject: 30.2230, Calls: General Linguistics/Portugal

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 07:02:50
From: Cristina Flores [cflores at ilch.uminho.pt]
Subject: Refugees, Heritage Languages and Language Attrition

 
Full Title: Refugees, Heritage Languages and Language Attrition 

Date: 29-Apr-2020 - 30-Apr-2020
Location: Braga, Portugal 
Contact Person: Cristina Flores
Meeting Email: cflores at ilch.uminho.pt
Web Site: http://ceh.ilch.uminho.pt/ehum2m/?page_id=101&lang=en 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2019 

Meeting Description:

International Conference on Humanity/Humanities on the Move
Panel on Refugees, Heritage languages and Language Attrition

Language plays a significant role in the current migration crisis. It is often
on the basis of a linguistic evaluation of refugees’ mother tongues that their
refugee status is conceded (or not). On the top of the host societies’
concerns is the challenge of teaching the host language to adult and child
returnees of diverse cultural backgrounds and a multiplicity of languages of
origin. This concern is often burdened by the worry of many politicians and
parts of the host societies that the refugees’ first languages may negatively
impact on the host country by transforming the host language and creating new
multilingual landscapes that are often not well accepted. An issue that is
largely ignored or purposely banished from public discussions is the
importance of maintaining the migrants’ home languages, especially in the case
of child migrants, the population that is most vulnerable to first language
loss.

This panel, included in the major conference ''Humanity/Humanities on the
Move'', aims at moving the focus to the refugees’ and migrants’ home languages
and to discuss 1) the linguistic consequences of losing the contact with a
first language, 2) the cultural and emotional implication of the process of
first language loss and 3) the cognitive, linguistic and academic advantages
of first language maintenance.

Org. Orlando Grossegesse (Chair / coord. of heResearch Team EHum2M -
University of Minho)


Call for Papers:

We welcome abstracts on linguistic aspects of first language attrition, on
sociolinguistic aspects of first language maintenance, on social and cognitive
benefits of bilingualism and on academic and pedagogical questions of
multilingual school environments that value the children’s home languages.

Online Submission:
http://ceh.ilch.uminho.pt/ehum2m/?page_id=241&lang=en




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