34.2202, Calls: Third Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia

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Subject: 34.2202, Calls: Third Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia

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Date: 12-Jul-2023
From: Elia Dal Corso [elia.dalcorso at unive.it]
Subject: Third Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia


Full Title: Third Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia
Short Title: CELEA3

Date: 06-May-2024 - 08-May-2024
Location: Venice, Italy
Contact Person: Elia Dal Corso
Meeting Email: elia.dalcorso at unive.it
Web Site: https://www.unive.it/pag/40235

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2023

Meeting Description:

The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice is pleased to announce the third meeting of the
Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA). The
conference focuses primarily on the endangered, indigenous, and
minority languages of Japan, China, Korea, the Russian Far East,
Mongolia, and Taiwan so priority will be given to contributions that
discuss languages spoken in these countries. However, contributions
dealing with languages spoken elsewhere in Asia are also more than
welcomed. Please note that contributions addressing any aspect of the
official or main languages spoken in these territories (e.g. Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, etc.), as well as of the dialects and varieties of
those languages, fall out of the scope of the conference and will not
be considered. We specifically encourage PhD students and young
researchers to present their work at the conference.

As the theme of this third meeting of CELEA we have chosen boundaries.
The concept of “boundary” with regards to language may have different
interpretations, which vary in applicability, pertinence, and even
desirability depending on what aspect of language one discusses. Of
course, setting boundaries is a necessary step in the process of
understanding how languages work – that is, the process by which we
define what is what or, to say it differently, how and why something
is different from something else.

Indeed clearly defining language features and behaviors is a desirable
thing, since by doing so we should provide a common ground to make our
analysis of single languages intelligible to others and, more
generally, to enhance cross-linguistic comparison. Linguistic typology
has long resorted to categories as a way to ensure this common ground.
However, languages often display variations that escape the parameters
previously set to define a certain category – this is often true
specifically for those indigenous and minority languages that have
started to be investigated only recently. This ultimately makes us
question what a language category should be in order to an effective
tool for language comparison (Haspelmath 2010, Bickel 2010). Connected
to this matter are the obstacles posed by how we employ even commonly
known linguistic terminology in our definitions, which too often
becomes a harbinger of misunderstandings due to the lack of general
consensus on its interpretation (Croft 2022). Also related is the
issue of when a certain feature becomes something else (specifically
in light of the essentially gradient nature of grammaticalization,
Heine 2003, Hopper & Traugott 2003) or when a certain language
develops into a different one, which comes together with the challenge
of dividing a language family’s history into periods.
As a tool for communication, language also occupies a place within
society. Especially for indigenous and minority languages, how this
space has been and is delimited, denied, (re-)gained, and shaped
intertwines tightly, among other factors, with language ideologies,
language identity, and wellbeing (Schieffelin et al. 1998, Taff et al.
2018, among others), with sometimes strikingly different outcomes that
directly depend on the multifaceted past of East Asian countries.

With this conference we will “cut along the dotted lines” of East
Asian endangered languages to see how the minority and/or indigenous
languages of the area contribute to language-specific descriptions as
well as to theoretical linguistics. We specifically encourage
contributions that explore issues related to categorial status, the
use of terminology in language description, the space(s) of language
within society, language periodization, and language-specific features
that have to do with either factual or perceived distance and
boundaries (e.g. definiteness, givenness, possession,
spatial/discourse deixis, egophoricity, pragmatic uses of language
registers, …).

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10-minute
discussion) and for poster presentations on any area of linguistics
including (but not limited to) phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax,
semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
All abstracts submitted for oral presentations and poster
presentations must comply with the overall topic of the conference,
regardless of the area of linguistics the author decides to focus on.

Abstracts should be anonymous – they should not include the name(s) of
the author(s) nor their affiliation. Please note that name(s) and/or
affiliation should not appear in the name of the file you submit
either.

Only one abstract per person (or one single-authored abstract plus one
additional co-authored abstract) is allowed.

Please specify, right under the title, whether you are submitting your
abstract for “oral presentation” or for “poster presentation”.

All abstracts should be submitted in English, which will also be the
language of the conference. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words,
excluding references but including examples, tables, and graphs.
Abstracts exceeding the word count or containing the author’s name
and/or affiliation will not be considered for paper or poster
presentation at the conference.



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