15.3211, Calls: Anthro Ling/Socioling/USA;Applied Ling/Netherlands

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Subject: 15.3211, Calls: Anthro Ling/Socioling/USA;Applied Ling/Netherlands                                                                                                                                                      

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1)
Date: 15-Nov-2004
From: Kris Markman < salsaut at uts.cc.utexas.edu >
Subject: Symposium About Language & Society-Austin 

2)
Date: 15-Nov-2004
From: Monika S. Schmid < ms.schmid at let.vu.nl >
Subject: 2nd International Conference on First Language Attrition 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:17:50
From: Kris Markman < salsaut at uts.cc.utexas.edu >
Subject: Symposium About Language & Society-Austin 

Full Title: Symposium About Language & Society-Austin 
Short Title: SALSA 

Date: 15-Apr-2005 - 17-Apr-2005
Location: Austin, TX, United States of America 
Contact Person: Kris Markman
Meeting Email: salsaut at uts.cc.utexas.edu
Web Site: http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse
Analysis; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Jan-2005 

Meeting Description:

The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its
13th Annual Meeting to be held April 15-17, 2005 at the University of Texas
at Austin. We encourage the submission of abstracts on research that
addresses the relationship of language to culture and society. Desired
frameworks include but are not limited to:

Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
Ethnography of Communication
Language and Identity
Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Poetics
Language, Media, and Technology	
Language and Social Interaction
Discourse Analysis & Conversation Analysis
Language Vitality
Language Socialization
Gesture and Talk in Interaction
Language and Politics

2005 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Asif Agha, University of Pennsylvania
Dale April Koike, University of Texas at Austin
Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego
John R. Rickford, Stanford University

Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special edition
of the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected on the
basis of a blind review process.

SALSA 2005 has moved to an online submission form. All submissions must
include TWO abstracts: An extended abstract not to exceed 4,100 characters
and spaces (approximately 600 words), including references and examples;
and a shorter abstracts not to exceed 1,100 spaces and characters
(approximately 150 words). Please note that the online submission form does
not accept special formatting or text such as IPA.  Only electronic
submissions sent through our online form will be accepted.  The abstract
submission system will be available beginning November 22, 2004. Each
person is limited to ONE submission as the primary author; multiple
submissions by the same first author will not be accepted.

Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference details
and to submit your abstract:
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 14, 2005. Late submissions
will not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers that are to be published
elsewhere. Notification of acceptance will be sent in mid-February 2005.
Pre-registration fees will be $25 for students and $50 for non-students,
and on-site registration fees will be $30 for students and $60 for
non-students.

Contact us at: SALSA
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Linguistics
1 University Station Stop B5100
Austin TX 78712-0198

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:17:56
From: Monika S. Schmid < ms.schmid at let.vu.nl >
Subject: 2nd International Conference on First Language Attrition 

Full Title: 2nd International Conference on First Language Attrition 
Short Title: 2nd ICFLA 

Date: 17-Aug-2005 - 20-Aug-2005
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Monika S. Schmid
Meeting Email: ICFLA2005 at let.vu.nl

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2004 

Meeting Description:

The 2nd ICFLA will focus on the role of theoretical models for the study of
language attrition. 

2nd ICFLA

International Conference on First Language Attrition

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 17-20 August 2005

Organizers:

Monika S. Schmid
Dept. of English
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ms.schmid at let.vu.nl

Barbara Köpke
Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique ''Jacques Lordat'' EA 1941
Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail
bkopke at mail.univ-tlse2.fr

Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order):

Vivian Cook (University of Essex, UK)
François Grosjean (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Ayse Gürel (Bogaziçi University Istanbul, Turkey)
Kenneth Hyltenstam (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Pekka Hirvonen (Joensuu University, Finland)
Carol Myers-Scotton (University of Southern Carolina, USA)
Christophe Pallier (Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit INSERM U562, Paris, France)
Michel Paradis (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts:  30th November 2004
Notification of acceptance:  31st January 2005
Preregistration	:  1st May 2005

Abstracts for 20 minute paper presentations or posters, maximum 300 words
(excluding references) should be send to ICFLA2005 at let.vu.nl. Please
indicate if you have a preference for a paper or poster. 

Outline of topic:
Attrition can be defined as the non pathological loss of a language in
bilingual speakers. As such, it can be seen as a subfield of language
contact, but it should be distinguished from other contact phenomena such
as language change, shift, loss and death in bilingual communities.
Language change, shift and death typically take place in bilingual
communities across generations, whereas the term 'attrition' is used to
refer to individual language loss and consequently takes place within one
generation. Furthermore, 'attrition' can be defined as loss of the
structural aspects of language, i.e. change or reduction in form, whilst
'shift' is a loss of functional aspects, i.e. the gradual replacement of
one language by another with respect to language use. It is this focus on
structural aspects in individual language loss that makes the attrition
field so promising for multidisciplinary approaches: linguistics,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and even neurolinguistics.

Over the past decades, great progress has been made in the area of
theoretical interpretation and evaluation of the phenomena witnessed in
language attrition. The frameworks and models which have been applied to
research on attrition have become more sophisticated, reflecting the
relatively greater wealth of researcher's experiences. This fine-tuning of
how research questions are asked has, in many instances, led to a more and
more microlinguistic approach - which has made it possible to answer
(albeit tentatively) some very specific questions. The more general ones,
however, remain unanswered. 

This problem is compounded by the fact that the majority of attrition
studies appear to fall into one of two categories. The first category
comprises those investigations which inductively proceed from a clearly
defined theoretical framework, such as GB, minimalism, the Abstract Level
model etc., setting out to investigate one or more predictions made by this
theory in respect to language attrition. These studies usually have a
local, microlinguistic focus, investigating one or two linguistic features,
usually on no more than one linguistic level (e.g. morphology). Sometimes,
but by no means always, they also investigate a small number of informants.
They typically elicit their data with one or two well-considered tests,
such as a grammaticality or truth value judgment.

In the second category are those studies that have chosen a deductive
approach. Such studies typically use a broader range of elicitation
techniques, since an approach that does not depart from a clearly specified
and theoretically informed hypothesis but from an observation of data
obviously has to cast its net much wider. In these cases, the researcher
attempts to approach the data with an open mind, investigating every
potentially interesting phenomenon and drawing conclusions from this. 

What is, as yet, lacking are studies that attempt to amalgamate both
approaches, combining data that have been elicited with a wide range of
methods and investigated from all possible angles with a theoretically
rigid framework. Ideally, such an approach would furthermore cover a wide
range of languages and a large number of informants. Obviously, this is not
a task that can be achieved by one researcher. But it is the necessary next
step if real progress is to be made in language attrition research - that
is, progress on more fundamental and global issues.

In the light of these considerations, it seems crucial that we now turn
ourselves to the task of building a broader base on which language
attrition research can be conducted. 

Reference: 
Köpke, Barbara/Monika S. Schmid. 2004. ''Language attrition: the next
phase'', in: Monika S. Schmid/Barbara Köpke/Merel Keijzer/Lina Weilemar
(eds.) First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on
methodological issues. Proceedings of the first International Conference on
First Language Attrition, Amsterdam, Aug. 2002. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins, pp. 1-43.

Abstract submissions are encouraged in the following domains of L1
attrition research:

-	methodological aspects of L1 attrition research
-	linguistic features involved
-	testing methodology
-	subject characteristics
-	...

-	theoretical approaches to L1 attrition:
o	linguistic perspectives, in particular:
*	the role of typological distance/closeness of the languages in interaction
*	the validity of theoretical frameworks to account for phenomena witnessed
in attrition
o	socio / ethnolinguistic perspectives, in particular:
*	the role, nature, and quality of contact with the L1
*	attitudinal factors within and across linguistic communities
o	psycho / neurolinguistic perspectives, considering in particular:
*	the effect of age at the onset of attrition and its possible interaction
with literacy
*	the role of processing constraints in attrition
*	the relationship between declarative / procedural memory and L1 attrition
*	ERP / brain imaging studies of attrition

-	comparative approaches to L1 attrition, i.e. studies focussing on
parallels between L1 attrition and
*	L2 attrition
*	L2 learning
*	normal aging
*	pathology
*	language change

-	attrition in specific populations
*	'late' attrition in early bilinguals
*	sign language attrition

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