Call for papers: Symposium on Language Dynamics & Linguistic Diversity - DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 20 DECEMBER

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Symposium on Language Dynamics and Linguistic Diversity in
Anthropological Perspective

Short Title: XV ICAES
Location: Florence, Italy
Date: 06-Jul-2003 - 12-Jul-2003

Call Deadline: 20-Dec-2002

Contact Person: Vesna Muhvic-Dimanovski
Meeting Email: eaa at inantro.hr

Linguistic Subfield(s):
Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics


Meeting Description:

A symposium on 'Language Dynamics and Linguistic Diversity in
Anthropological Perspective' will be held in Florence, Italy, July 5th
- 7th, 2003, under the auspices of the XV ICAES - International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (5-12th July
2003). This world congress is organized every five years and
traditionally attempts to cover the most diverse important aspects of
anthropological research including those related to human languages.
		
Objectives: As the preservation of linguistic diversity along with
that of species and cultures has become a major concern to many
researchers of various backgrounds it is increasingly evident that the
adoption of an integrated scientific perspective is needed to achieve
this goal. Anthropology lends itself naturally to this kind of work
because of its holistic and multidisciplinary perspective, which helps
us to recognize interrelationships when they exist. Linguistic
anthropologists have never considered language in isolation from the
real world but have focused on the multifaceted relationships between
language and both its natural and social environment, as well as the
interaction of the various languages in contact situations. A broad
understanding of language as an open system affected by outside forces
allows interdisciplinary approaches to language dynamics and change,
such as exploring the sociocultural correlates of language/dialect,
contact, vitality or endangerment in the most diverse situations
and regions.

Call for Papers: The symposium will address a wide range of cultural,
social, political, economic and technological issues affecting
language dynamics and change at a global scale in order to contribute
to the definition of factors that sustain the vitality and maintenance
of languages in their environment. Papers by anthropologically
informed linguists and/or linguistically trained anthropologists that
explore any aspect of broadly conceived language dynamics are
welcomed; especially those that focus on cross-disciplinary questions
such as the biological and sociocultural functions of linguistic
diversity and other relevant themes of ecolinguistics, contact
linguistics, cultural identity, language policies and linguistic
rights.  The proceedings with the full accepted papers will be
published after the conference by the organizers.

Proposals: Submissions should include the following information: Title
of the paper; your particulars (initials and surname), your address,
telephone number, e-mail address, and fax number, as well as the
abstract of max 250 words. The abstract should briefly indicate the
paper's aim, perspective and findings, and must be submitted and
received before 20 December 2002 preferably by e-mail to the
organizers of the symposium:

For further information:

Dr. Vesna MUHVIC-DIMANOVSKI
Institute of Linguistics, Zagreb Croatia
Dr. Anita SUJOLDZIC					
Institute of Anthropology					
Amruseva 8, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Ph: 385 1 4816903; Fax: 385 1 4813777
e-mail: eaa at inantro.hr

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