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[Valentina Pagliai]

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>Presentation
>It is our pleasure to let you know that 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. 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
>The contemporary global processes of cultural and environmental disruption
>represent also a threat to linguistic diversity. Some forecasts indicate
>that more than half of the six thousand languages spoken today could
>disappear during this century. 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
>Prof. Anita SUJOLDZIC
>Member of IUAES Executive Committee
>Institute of Anthropology Amruseva 8, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
>Ph: 385 1 4816903
>Fax: 385 1 4813777
>e-mail: eaa at inantro.hr
>Dr. Vesna MUHVIC-DIMANOVSKI
>Head of Institute of Linguistics
>Dept. for Linguistic and Sociocultural Research Faculty of Philosophy
>University of Zagreb
>
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