[lg policy] calls: 7th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics

[Harold Schiffman]

7th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics

Date: 28-Feb-2012 - 02-Mar-2012
Location: Bremen, Germany
Contact Person: Otto Zwartjes
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/misling2012bremen/

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2011

Meeting Description:

Impacts of Colonial Thinking on Intercultural, Transcultural and
Translational Processes and the Influence of the Missionized Other in
Missionary Linguistics.

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions addressing the following topics:

-The colonial context and its impact on linguistic work in contrast to
Missionary Linguistics without the consideration of the colonial
context, if such situations exist.
-Missionary Linguistic analysis and political and social consequences
for the languages described
-Studies on the transcultural manifestations in linguistic description
-Implicit and/ or explicit contrastive perspectives on the missionary
linguistic studies and their theoretical implications
-New (explicit or implicit) constructions for linguistic theory
(grammatical and semantic) in the descriptions or meta-linguistic
observations by missionaries or in related fields.
-Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics etc.

As in previous conferences of this series, other contributions on
missionary linguistics are welcome as well.

The conference languages will be English, Spanish, and German

Participants please send the title of their intended presentation
along with their contact data (full name, institution, mail address,
title) and an abstract indicating

-aim of the study
-relevance
-contextualization of the paper within linguistic or other domains
-methods
-data, documents
-intended results

Abstracts (not more than 1 page) should be sent to
kzimmermannuni-bremen.de ; hispanuni-bremen.de ; O.J.Zwartjesuva.nl ;
schrader-kniffkigmx.de by 1 of October 2011

The abstracts will be evaluated and admission will be granted
depending on criteria such as innovative character, quality, and
relation to the main topic of the conference.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-658.html

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