[lg policy] CFP: Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning

[Harold Schiffman]

Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning
Friday, 26 July 2013
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Conveners

Mari Jones (Department of French/Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)
Christopher Connolly (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)


Call for Papers

Language policy is where linguistics meets politics. Linguistic
legislation serves as a medium through which power is negotiated
between different speech communities within a given society. Where
varieties are endangered, language policy often takes the form of
specific ideologies that underlie language planning strategies. As
such, its goals may be specific and practical in nature, such as
orthographic reform, or more emblematic, such as measures for the
promotion and protection of vulnerable languages. However, language
policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often
linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to
recognize and support a given variety representing a refusal to grant
a ‘voice’ to the corresponding ethnocultural community. This
conference will consider how and whether the interface between people,
politics and language can affect the fortunes of the endangered
linguistic varieties involved. Can policy really alter linguistic
behaviour, or does it merely ratify changes already underway within
the speech community? Do governments have a moral obligation to
support endangered languages? Should linguists play a role in shaping
language policy and, if so, what should that role be? When policy
decisions are at odds with the will of the speech community, which
will triumph? We welcome papers on a range of related topics including
the association of revitalization campaigns with political movements
(parasitic pragmatism or beneficial cooperation?); the relationship
between language policy and language planning (complementary or
conflicting?); 'top-down' vs. 'bottom-up' language policy; and models
for analysing and evaluating the outcomes of language policy.

Abstracts: (200 words maximum) to be submitted via email to the
organisers by April 1st 2013.

Plenary speaker - to be confirmed.

Accommodation for delegates

We are unable to arrange accommodation, however, the following
websites may be of help.

Visit Cambridge
Cambridge Rooms
University of Cambridge accommodation webpage
NB. CRASSH is not able to help with the booking of accommodation.

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2163

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