Linguist List: 15.3002, Calls: Socioling/Typology/Ireland;

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

FYI - There will be a conference on defining 
"language distance" at the University of 
Limerick, and papers will be accepted in Irish as 
well as English or French.

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>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:37:16
>From: Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin < tadhg.ohifearnain at ul.ie >
>Subject: Near Languages (Collateral Languages 2)
>
>Full Title: Near Languages (Collateral Languages 2)
>
>Date: 16-Jun-2005 - 18-Jun-2005
>Location: Limerick, Ireland
>Contact Person: Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
>Meeting Email: tadhg.ohifearnain at ul.ie
>Web Site: http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/Gaeilge/Collat2.htm
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>Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Genetic
>Classification; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy 
>of Language; Psycholinguistics;
>Sociolinguistics; Typology
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>Call Deadline: 14-Jan-2005
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>Meeting Description:
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>Conference on measuring the linguistic and sociolinguistic distance between
>related languages and dialects which builds on work of an earlier
>conference entitled 'Des langues collatérales' held in the Université de
>Picardie, Amiens, France in November 2001.
>
>Some languages are obviously 'close' to each other, but assessing the
>actual 'distance between languages' requires a complex of very different
>yet complementary approaches.
>
>The concept of nearness/distance, meaning the degree or form of
>differentiation between language varieties (for example between national
>languages, regional and social dialects, standardised codes) has been
>developed in various disciplinary and theoretical frameworks: typology,
>dialectology, contrastive linguistics, lexical frequency, etc. There are,
>however, no instruments available which synthesise these approaches to give
>a definitive evaluation of linguistic distance.
>
>Linguistic intercommunication and individuation depend not only on
>linguistic distance but also on socio-psychological conditions, the
>influence of educational traditions, informal and institutional
>communication strategies, and on linguistic and political ideologies.
>
>There is a real need to better understand and appreciate the role that
>linguistic nearness and distance play in human relations, and be able to
>measure and evaluate it. This is the aim of this conference, which follows
>an earlier one held in Amiens in 2001. (Des langues collatérales, J.M. Eloy
>ed., Paris, L'Harmattan 2004, 2 vol.)
>
>Proposals for papers, posters and workshops addressing typological,
>communication, anthropological and metalinguistic aspects of the relations
>between 'near languages' should be sent in an abstract of less than 450
>words to reach either of the organisers by 14 January 2005. (Working
>languages: French, Irish, English, but proposals 
>in all languages are welcome.)
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