31.1400, Calls: History of Linguistics, Language Documentation/France

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Subject: 31.1400, Calls: History of Linguistics, Language Documentation/France

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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:36:38
From: Chloé Laplantine [shesl at shesl.org]
Subject: Documentation and Description of Asian Languages:History and Epistemology

 
Full Title: Documentation and Description of Asian Languages:History and Epistemology 
Short Title: SHESL 2021 

Date: 20-Jan-2021 - 22-Jan-2021
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Chloé Laplantine
Meeting Email: shesl at shesl.org
Web Site: http://shesl.org/index.php/en/shesl-conference-2021/ 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2020 

Meeting Description:

This conference proposes to address, from a historical and/or an
epistemological point of view, the ways in which Asian languages have been
documented and described. “Asia” is used here in the wide sense which the
French Société asiatique gives to it, that is to say as designating an area
going from the Maghreb to the Far East. 

By “activities of documentation and description of Asian languages” we mean:

– On the one hand, the collection of linguistic data in all its forms
(word-lists, constitution of archives, linguistic surveys, questionnaires,
audio and/or video recordings, corpora, databases, etc.);

– On the other hand, the development of tools for representing a language
within a synchronic or a diachronic approach: writing systems, grammars,
monolingual dictionaries, lexica, translation tools (e.g. bi- or tri-lingual
dictionaries), manuals, rhetorical and poetic treatises, etc.

Any knowledge related to Asian languages has to be addressed as a historical
reality, that is to say as an intervention carried out by actors situated in a
specific here and now, and occupying a specific epistemic perspective with a
view that extends backward (i.e. as far as their own “tradition” is recalled)
and possibly forward too (i.e. toward what they aim to accomplish); in other
words, actors have to be situated with respect to their historical and
epistemic coordinates, their time, their society and culture, their “horizon
of retrospection” and possibly their “horizon of projection” (Auroux 1989 :
13). The idea therefore is to study, through the course of history, the
various manifestations of linguistic knowledge and documentation related to
Asian languages, as well as the evolution of these manifestations. And this
study must be undertaken within a fundamentally reflexive perspective.


Call for Papers: 

Submitted proposals (please provide a detailed summary – between 2.000 and
2.500 signs, spaces included – as well as a detailed bibliography) must
clearly fall within a historical and/or an epistemological perspective. They
can deal with one or several Asian language(s), considered at any period of
time.

Submission deadline for proposals: 15 July 2020.

Request for information and proposals should be sent to: shesl at shesl.org

Papers may be delivered in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.




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