Fwd: Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment

[Julia Sallabank]

Dear colleagues

With apologies for cross-posting, please can you circulate this to
interested colleagues.

Many thanks
Julia

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From: Dr. M.C. Jones <mcj11 at cam.ac.uk>
Date: 25 May 2011 18:45
Subject: Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment

Dear All,

I am delighted to give you advance notice that the Second Cambridge
Conference on Language Endangerment will take place next year at CRASSH and
Peterhouse on Friday 6th July 2012.

The theme of next year's conference will be:

Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges

According to the UNESCO Atlas of Endangered Languages, 43% of the world’s
6,000 languages are currently under threat of extinction. Unsurprisingly,
therefore, linguists have been seeking to analyse and document these
languages while they are still spoken. However, it is striking that, in many
cases, researchers have been slow to exploit fully the enhanced resources
offered by the development of new technologies for areas ranging from visual
and sound archiving to digitisation of textual resources to electronic
mapping: resources which, if utilised to their full capacity can also be
used as teaching resources in language revitalisation. However, these new
technologies also bring with them a host of new challenges: one cannot
simply graft existing practices onto new instruments. Rather, there is a
need for traditional methods and ideas to evolve along with the technology.
Moreover, lack of interchange with other teams also often leads researchers
to continually reinvent the wheel. This conference invites researchers and
language-documentation practitioners from around the world to come together
to share their methodologies and to learn from each other.****

It would be terrific to see you there. I very much hope you can come!

More details and a formal Call For Papers will be posted via email lists and
on the CRASSH website in due course. The purpose of the present email is
simply to give you plenty of advance notice so that those of you who may be
interested in attending can put the date in your diaries.

All best wishes,
Mari

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Dr Mari Jones
Reader in French Linguistics and Language Change
Fellow, Director of Studies and Tutor of Peterhouse
Peterhouse,
Cambridge  CB2 1RD

Tel: 01223 330859
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