30.3929, Confs: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3929. Thu Oct 17 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3929, Confs: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition/France

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:08:08
From: Cedric Moreau [cedric.moreau at inshea.fr]
Subject: Minority Languages Spoken or Signed and Inclusive Spaces

 
Minority Languages Spoken or Signed and Inclusive Spaces 
Short Title: #minlangconf 

Date: 25-May-2020 - 27-May-2020 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Conference Secretariat 
Contact Email: minlangconf at inshea.fr 
Meeting URL: http://minoritylanguages.inshea.fr/?q=fr 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

An inclusive society cannot exclusively define its members as those who can
physically access collective spaces of work, leisure and common cultural
heritage. Beyond openness to differences and the measures taken to prevent
discrimination, which determine accessibility as a constituent of human
rights, the concrete question of the roles played by linguistic systems as
paths to the appropriation of knowledge arises. This knowledge enables to
build the meaning of those spaces as well as the social and personal identity
of the users.

Languages, as an inter-individual and inter-group communicational tool, are
indeed a real “mycelium” ensuring cohesion between individuals, but also help
accomplish collective and personal fulfilment.

Since the 80s, UNESCO has considered language diversity as an essential
component of humankind’s cultural diversity. As such, it has stressed the
importance of assigning a ''significant role to minority languages, according
to the necessities of contemporary life, at local as well as national and
international level''.
About forty years later, it is important to ask ourselves how the promotion of
this diversity, especially conveyed by the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, is compatible and coherent with the
design and implementation of an inclusive society.
In this context, observing linguistic media -through which the contents of
information or knowledge is prioritized and conveyed in social spaces- and
analyzing the institutional and identity issues attached to this construct is
paramount. It makes it possible to initiate dialogue between the linguistic
needs of indigenous peoples, regional language speakers and people with
disabilities in order to identify obstacles to the establishment of an
inclusive society, activating often underestimated leverage.
This perspective compels to study the contributions and the limits of
languages, whatever their spoken, gestural or written form, regarding the
construction of a societal ideal of inclusion.
The objective of this international conference is to question the way social
“inclusive” spaces (schools, universities, cultural centers, public services…)
take into consideration minor languages (or not). It aims at fostering
original and innovative initiatives in their psychological, social,
glottopolitical, anthropological, linguistic, pedagogical, didactical and
digital dimensions, and discussing those topics.
The discussions will be based on potential leverage tools, but also the
difficulties resulting from internal and external forces of various kinds
(socioeconomic, political, digital…) exerted on these minority languages. They
also interrogate the repercussions on their speakers within these spaces.

Researchers are invited to follow one of the two main thematic lines:

Topic 1 : Praxeology : social intervention, work, health, education,…
- Transmission and preservation of the linguistic heritage of minority
languages (spoken or signed)
- Translangaging (bringing everyone's language skills to life)
- Artificial intelligence for minority languages (spoken or signed)
- Linguistic diversity including minority languages (spoken or signed): life
stories and practices
- Approaches, materials and tools for minority languages (spoken or signed)

Topic 2 : Paradigms, analysis of professional, institutional or media
representations and discourses.
- Minority languages (spoken or signed): Conflicting paradigms
- Analysis and genealogy of debate on minority languages (spoken or signed)
- Linguistic law and policy for minority languages (spokenspoken or signed)

The topics listed here are not exhaustive and any multidisciplinary
presentation proposal will be welcome.
 






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