24.1570, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 24.1570, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics/UK

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Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:57:36
From: Marco Tamburelli [m.tamburelli at bangor.ac.uk]
Subject: Contested Languages in the Old World

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Full Title: Contested Languages in the Old World 
Short Title: CLOW 

Date: 09-Sep-2013 - 10-Sep-2013
Location: Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Marco Tamburelli
Meeting Email: clow at bangor.ac.uk
Web Site: http://clow-conference.bangor.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2013 

Meeting Description:

Only a fraction of European languages listed in the 2010 ‘UNESCO Atlas of World’s Languages in Danger’ enjoy some recognition within the state(s) in which they are spoken. There thus remain many European bilinguals who have linguistic rights only in one of their two mother tongues, often not their preferred one.

This international conference will bring together linguists, political scientists, legal experts, writers, activists and other scholars working on the current status and future prospects of such ‘contested’ languages, as well as on issues of corpus and status planning and how these impact on both the speaker communities and the academic world.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Prof. Christopher Moseley (UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger)
Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh) 

The meeting will focus on languages which, although generally recognized as such by the international scientific community (e.g., they are duly reported in Ethnologue, have an unambiguous ISO 639 code, and their status as Abstand languages is often not questioned by linguists, especially out of their home country), have not attained any reasonable degree of official recognition. Sometimes, also academic interest and recognition at home are at stake.

Reference is made here to many of the regional languages of Italy (e.g. Lombard, Piedmontese, Sicilian, Venetian, and others), Germany (e.g. Bavarian, Low Saxon, Swabian), and Poland (e.g. Kashubian, Silesian), some of the regional languages of Spain (e.g. Aragonese, Asturian), and most regional languages of France, as well as to all other cases of ‘contested languages’ within European continua. All these varieties have a relatively strong degree of Abstand separating them from the official languages of the State in which they are spoken, they also have a substantial number of speakers of different age groups (though younger speakers tend to be less conversant and prefer the use of the state language), a distinct literary written tradition, and display some level of standardization and corpus planning. Still, these languages are often referred to as ‘dialects’, ‘patois’ etc. in everyday (and sometimes in academic) discourse. The visibility of these languages in the public sphere is negligible and official recognition is either totally lacking or restricted to the local level; public use of these languages is likewise totally absent or nearly so. Speakers’ awareness varies, but is generally low and restricted to active minorities.

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite submission of abstracts for oral presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes questions) and poster sessions on, but not limited to, the following topics: 

- The status and/or corpus planning in one or more contested language(s) of Europe 
- Comparison of status and/or corpus planning levels between two or more contested language(s) or Europe 
- Speakers and government attitudes on specific contested languages of Europe 
- The impact of local legislation and/or local initiatives on the status and attitudes of contested languages in Europe 
- Issues of Abstand and Ausbau relating to one or more contested language(s) of Europe 

Please send 250-word abstracts (excluding references) to clow at bangor.ac.uk by the closing date of 1 May 2013. Abstracts should be included as Word file attachments, and be anonymised. Please indicate clearly in your email whether your abstract is to be considered for a paper or poster, along with the following information: 

Name of presenter(s) 
University affiliation(s) 
Email address(es) 

Proposers can expect to hear if their abstract has been accepted by 31 May 2013. 

Format for Abstracts: 

Length: 250 words (excluding references) 
Font-size: 12 point, Times New Roman 
Margins: 1 inch 

Important Deadlines: 

Submission deadline: 1 May 2013 
Notification: 31 May 2013

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