[EDLING:1059] CFP: Human Language and Language Reform

[Francis M Hult]

> Paper proposals are invited for the seminar "Human Language and Language 
> Reform," ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting, Princeton University, March 23-26, 
> 2006.
> 
> Seminar Organizers: Brian Lennon, Pennsylvania State University; Nergis 
> Erturk, Columbia University
> 
> This seminar invites reflections on literature and language reform. More 
> specifically, we invite participants to consider how nineteenth and 
> twentieth century nationalist and internationalist language projects at 
> once destroyed and reconstituted --- literally re-formed --- imaginations 
> of language as something (uniquely) human: a double movement manifest in 
> the para-literary and masocritical activities of historical and 
> contemporary avant-gardes, in post-structuralist translation theory, and 
> in current models of and for world literature. Papers might address the 
> consequences for "human language," and the relevance for literature, of 
> any of the following or related topics in language politics and language 
> ecology: alphabet reform; language purification; orthographic 
> standardization; official language policies; international auxiliary and 
> planned languages; "global" languages; monolingualism and plurilingualism; 
> machine writing and machine translation.
> 
> Deadline for submission of individual paper proposals: November 30, 2005. 
> Please submit proposals at the Web site for ACLA 2006:
> 
> http://www.princeton.edu/~acla06
> 
> Contact for questions about this seminar:
> 
> Brian Lennon
> Assistant Professor
> Department of English
> The Pennsylvania State University
> 117 Burrowes Building
> University Park, PA 16802-6200 USA
> Phone: (814) 865-6261
> Fax: (814) 863-7285
> Email: blennon_at_psu.edu