20.3290, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Socioling, Applied Ling/Croatia

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Subject: 20.3290, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Socioling, Applied Ling/Croatia

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Date: 29-Sep-2009
From: Mirna Jernej < mirna.jernej at inantro.hr >
Subject: New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:06:43
From: Mirna Jernej [mirna.jernej at inantro.hr]
Subject: New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe

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Full Title: New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe 
Short Title: LINEE 

Date: 11-Apr-2010 - 15-Apr-2010
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia 
Contact Person: Mirna Jernej
Meeting Email: mirna.jernej at inantro.hr
Web Site: http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2009 

Meeting Description:

Venue: Dubrovnik, Croatia 
The conference is intended to bring together academics representing a range of
disciplines in humanities and social sciences, practitioners and EU/national
policy makers, concerned with multilingualism and linguistic diversity in Europe. 

Organizing Institution: Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia 

2nd Call for Papers

This international outreach conference is organized jointly by LINEE:
Languages in a Network of European Excellence and the integrated project DYLAN
of the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme for Research and
Development. With an increased awareness of international globalisation and
European integration, the existing mainstream conceptualizations of
multilingualism and linguistic diversity have been increasingly questioned, in
particular within the humanities and the social sciences. In a EU context of
socio-political transition it is therefore a challenge to take stock of the
existing disciplinary knowledge, and to reassess it against the background of
the ongoing integration process which goes along with the transformation of
traditional linguistic and cultural patterns.

Conference Scientific Board:
Senka Bozic (Zadar), Rita Franceschini (Bozen), François Grin (Geneva), Clare
Mar-Molinero (Southampton), Jiri Nekvapil (Prague), Patrick Stevenson
(Southampton), Anita Sujoldzic (Zagreb), Rosita Schjerve-Rindler (Vienna), Iwar
 Werlen (Bern). 

Proposals are invited for original and previously unpublished research papers
that broadly fall within the following themes and topics: 

A. Language, Culture and Identity: 
Within the context of ongoing glocalisation, the emergence of multiple
identities compels to redefine the role of languages and lingua francas as
identity markers, and as factors contributing to the distinctiveness of culture-
specific environments. The overall objective of this thematic block is to
clarify the saliency of language as an identity marker in the EU. This points to
the role of language in identity formation processes, the existence of
language-based multiple identities, and the significance of language as 
part of well-being of their speakers, and primary symbol of possible secondary
cultural, economical, political and other non-linguistic motives. 

B. Language Policy and Planning: 
This thematic bloc is addressed to researchers interested not only on the
institutional, intrinsic and professional process-oriented dimension, but also
to those concerned with an often unnoticed, implicit or unintended language
policy and language planning processes. A consensus on the demarcation between
such concepts as "language policy", "language planning" and related concepts
("aménagement linguistique", "language politics') will be discussed. The issues
to examine concern the adequacy of the existing language policy and language
planning efforts in the EU countries, identifying possible discrepancies between
theory and practice. 

C. Multilingualism and Education: 
The main issue to be tackled concerns the challenge of becoming not only
multilingual, but multicompetent in a multilingual environment and the ways of
developing the capacity to behave in a flexible and adequate manner in concrete
multilingual contexts. The two main fields in which these questions can be
answered, are in general a) Second Language Acquisition, including all forms of
language acquisition apart from first language acquisition, from contact
languages present in the territory to school learning of truly foreign
languages) and b) bilingual Education (including concurrent learning of several
languages). 

D. Language and Economy: 
This topic is focused on the interplay between and economy and their impact on
the building of a knowledge-based society. The focus will be on the relationship
between language, geographical mobility and New Economy growth patterns. If we
conceive of the economic order as a determining force in society, and if we take
into account that economy cannot do without language, then it follows that
economy has profound implications for language (its use and status, the
emergence of lingua francas) in society. This is all the more true as economy
itself has shifted from industrial age to a knowledge economy. 

The abstract submission deadline for individual papers has been extended to
October 31, 2009. Further details regarding abstract submission and registration
are available on the conference website: 
http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference 

Location of the Conference: 
Dubrovnik is one of the most attractive places on the Mediterranean. It is a
city with a unique political and cultural history, and a world famous monumental
heritage and beauty inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List :
http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr

For additional information please contact or call: 
Mirna Jernej 
Institute for Anthropological Research, Lj. Gaja 32, P.O. Box 290, 10000 
Zagreb, Croatia 
E-mail: mirna.jernej at inantro.hr 
Phone: +385-1-5535104; Fax: +385-1-5535105

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