35.1340, Calls: The 28th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL)

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Subject: 35.1340, Calls: The 28th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL)

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Date: 24-Apr-2024
From: Muhammad Kamal Khan [kamal.khan at aiou.edu.pk]
Subject: The 28th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL)


Full Title: The 28th Annual Conference of the Foundation for
Endangered Languages (FEL)
Short Title: FEL-XXVIII

Date: 25-Sep-2024 - 27-Sep-2024
Location: Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad-Pakistan, Pakistan
Contact Person: Muhammad Kamal Khan
Meeting Email: felconf2024.islamabad at gmail.com
Web Site: https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for
-endangered-languages/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Language Documentation; Ling & Literature; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-May-2024

Meeting Description:

Oral traditions and expressions are very significant aspects of
intangible linguistic and cultural heritage. They are the collective
memory of a community. They also play a crucial role in keeping
languages and cultures alive.
Oral traditions and expressions come in a huge variety of spoken
forms: folk songs, stories, riddles, tales, legends, myths, poems,
epics, chants, charms, romances and other types of folk literature and
dramatic performances. Certain types of oral traditions are highly
specialized occupations, but they are commonly performed by lay
members of the community who transmit their skills, the communal
knowledge, and artistic values from generation to generation. Oral
traditions are, however, highly fragile and their viability rests
chiefly on this transmission.
Languages live and prosper in oral traditions - folk songs and stories
- and other forms of intangible cultural heritage. The protection and
preservation of indigenous languages are, therefore, closely related
to the transmission of oral traditions and expressions. When languages
are threatened and become extinct, oral traditions and expressions are
also permanently lost. Documenting and safeguarding oral traditions
are, therefore, significant ways of protecting and preserving
languages; they are important complements to such activities as
writing dictionaries and creating grammars and databases.
Recent research trends in documentary and descriptive linguistics have
underscored the value of oral traditions and expressions and they
encourage the use of methodologies which include recording,
transcribing and translating oral traditions and expressions. This is
compounded by an increasing global awareness of the alarming number of
languages which continue to disappear, together with their oral
literature and cultural lore, and the threat that their extinction may
entail for the future of humankind.
The 28th conference of the Foundation of Endangered Languages
(FELXXVIII) will provide a forum for the examination of the intricate
relationship between endangered languages and oral traditions and
expressions. The conference will encourage scholarship on the role
that vivid oral traditions/expressions may play in the preservation
and revitalization of endangered languages and, similarly, on the
impact that language revitalization may have on the maintenance,
development and flourishing of oral traditions.

Call for Papers:

       15 May 2024: Deadline for submission of abstract
       21 June 2024: Selected applicants informed
       31 July 2024: Deadline for extended version of accepted
abstract
       25-27 September 2024: Conference dates
       28 September: Excursion to a local community

Please submit your abstracts of 600 - 800 words on EasyChair at this
address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxviii2024



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