[lg policy] call: Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges

[Harold Schiffman]

Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges

Date: 06-Jul-2012 - 06-Jul-2012
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact: Mari Jones
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1688/



Meeting Description:

At a time when UNESCO deems 43% of the world's 6,000 languages at risk
of extinction, the imperative to record and analyse these linguistic
varieties while they are still spoken has scarcely been greater. Yet
researchers have ostensibly been slow to avail themselves of the
opportunities offered by new technologies, from visual and aural
archiving, to digitisation of textual resources and electronic
mapping, techniques which could have the potential to play an integral
role in reversing language shift. However, it is clear that with these
new technologies come new challenges for the linguist. The 2nd
Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment invites researchers to
bring forward their ideas for tackling these issues: to share
experiences from the field, to consider how these new resources might
best be applied, as well as the problems that they can bring, to
reassess more traditional techniques in light of new technologies and
to work with a view towards achieving a practicable synthesis of old
and new methodologies. At this critical time, the conference seeks to
ignite the debate as to what, if indeed anything, new technologies
have to offer the fields of documentation, revitalization and
maintenance, and how the research community might seek to enhance the
functionality of these resources in order to advance their application
beyond mere superficies.

The conference will include the following plenary sessions:

Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy, The Netherlands): The Use of Sound
Archives for the Documentation and Maintenance of Siberian Endangered
Languages and Cultures

Nicholas Ostler (The Foundation for Endangered Languages): Endangered
Languages in the New Multi-lingual Order: Per Genus et Differentiam

http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-3941.html

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