23.3576, Calls: Socioling, Language Documentation, Anthropological Ling/UK

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Subject: 23.3576, Calls: Socioling, Language Documentation, Anthropological Ling/UK

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:01:08
From: Mari Jones [mcj11 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning

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Full Title: Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning 

Date: 26-Jul-2013 - 26-Jul-2013
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Mari Jones
Meeting Email: mcj11 at cam.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2163/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2013 

Meeting Description:

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 linguistic 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?

Plenary Speaker: Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago) 

Call for Papers:

We welcome papers on a range of topics relating to language policy and planning within the context of endangered languages, 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 (see main conference website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2163/)






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