34.2974, Calls: Contested Languages in the Old World 4

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2974. Wed Oct 11 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2974, Calls: Contested Languages in the Old World 4

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Date: 10-Oct-2023
From: Maciej Mętrak [maciej.metrak at ispan.edu.com]
Subject: Contested Languages in the Old World 4

Full Title: Contested Languages in the Old World 4
Short Title: CLOW4

Date: 24-May-2024 - 25-May-2024
Location: Warszawa, Poland
Contact Person: Maciej Mętrak
Meeting Email: maciej.metrak at ispan.edu.pl
Web Site: https://ispan.waw.pl/default/badania/clow4/

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2023

Meeting Description:

Contested languages are languages that “are generally listed in
international language catalogues and atlases (…) but have not
attained any reasonable degree of official political recognition by
the state within which they are spoken” (Tamburelli & Tosco, 2021:
3–4).

Contested languages are distinctly apart linguistically from the
official languages of the state in which they are spoken (Abstand
criterion – a language by distance). Yet, they are often disregarded
due to genealogical relatedness to the state’s official languages.
Contested languages are not necessarily “small” in terms of the number
of speakers of different age groups (although most often younger
speakers tend to be less conversant and prefer the use of the state
language), sometimes they have a distinct literary written tradition,
and may display some level of standardization and corpus planning
(Ausbau criterion – a language by development). Still, these languages
are often referred to as “dialects”, “patois” etc. in everyday (and
often in academic) discourse. They are not recognized as “languages”
in political terms or are referred to as “languages with adjective”:
regional, local, our).

Contested languages may be territorial, used by an autochthonous /
indigenous people, non-territorial and non-phonetic languages (e.g.
sign language as often contested in the European context). We welcome
all cases of contested languages within European continua.

Call for Papers:

Aim of the conference
The conference aims to bring together scholars and activists working
on the current status and future prospects of contested languages, as
well as on issues of corpus and status planning, and how these impact
on the speaker communities themselves and on the academic world. The
conference will also serve to discuss different sociolinguistic
aspects of contested languages functioning in modern society: language
ideologues, attitudes and practices.

Topics
We welcome submission of abstracts for oral presentations (20 mins +
10 mins questions) and poster sessions on, but not limited to, the
following topics:

Case studies of status, corpus and acquisition planning of any
contested language in Europe;
Comparison of the language policy and planning situations between two
or more contested languages in Europe;
Speakers’ attitudes towards specific contested languages in Europe,
with a special attention to the theory and practice of “new speakers”;
Relationship between languages collaterality and contestedness;
Issues of Abstand and Ausbau relating to one or more contested
language(s) of Europe;
Perception of contested languages by their speakers and legislators;
Government attitudes towards specific contested languages in Europe,
with a special attention to distance between the overt policy and
planning and the “hidden agendas”;
The impact of local legislation and/or local initiatives on the status
and attitudes of contested languages in Europe, in their immediate
visibility as well as the long-term goal, i.e. guaranteeing their
intergenerational transmission;
Contested languages vitality and ethnolinguistic vitality of their
communities.
Workshop (23 May 2024)
The conference will be accompanied by a one-day workshop, designed
particularly (but not exclusively) for PhD students and early career
researchers. The workshop will serve to better understand the concept
of “contested languages” as well as the differences and similarities
between contested languages and other forms of languages
minoritization or endangerment. Examples of topics covered at the
workshop include:

Contested languages, endangered languages, collateral languages,
regional, minority, minoritized and heritage languages. What does it
all mean?
Contested languages and linguistic rights: is language contestation a
matter of human rights?
The dynamics of language contestation: how does it happen, who does it
serve, and why should we care?
The cost of language contestation: what are the consequences of
contestation? Who does it affect, and how?
Planning for the future vitality and maintenance of contested
languages: how do we identify language contestation, and can it be
reversed?
Submission of abstracts for the conference
Abstracts for a conference should be around 300 words long. All
abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Important dates:

Abstract Submission Closes: December 31, 2023;
Acceptance Notification: January 31, 2024;
Registration Opens: February l, 2024;
Registration Closes: April 1, 2024;
Conference Dates: 24–25 May, 2024.
At least one author of each accepted paper or poster must register for
the conference.

Registration for the workshop
Application for the workshop should concern a short (1 page maximum)
CV of a participant with the title and a short description of a PhD
thesis (for PhD students) and main area of interests for all others.

The submission link for CLOW4 on EasyChair will be posted here soon
(new EasyChair users should register into the system).

Conference fee
For regular researchers: 160 Euro;
For PhD students: 80 Euro;
Workshop: 30 Euro.
Conference fee covers coffee breaks, lunch on both days of the
conferences (and during the workshop), conference materials. It does
not cover the costs of the conference dinner.

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