26.508, Calls: Languages of Java, Socioling, Lang Documentation, Typology, Anthropological Ling, General Ling/Indonesia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-508. Sun Jan 25 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.508, Calls: Languages of Java, Socioling, Lang Documentation, Typology, Anthropological Ling, General Ling/Indonesia

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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:59:42
From: Thomas Conners [tconners at umd.edu]
Subject: International Symposium on the Languages of Java V

Full Title: International Symposium on the Languages of Java V 
Short Title: ISLOJ 5 

Date: 06-Jun-2015 - 07-Jun-2015
Location: Bandung, West Java, Indonesia 
Contact Person: Thomas Conners
Meeting Email: tconners at umd.edu
Web Site: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj5.php 

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

Subject Language(s): Balinese (ban)
                     Bengkala Sign Language (bqy)
                     Indonesian Sign Language (inl)
                     Javanese (jav)
                     Madurese (mad)
                     Sasak (sas)
                     Sundanese (sun)

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Fifth ISLOJ
International Symposium on the Languages of Java

6-7 June 2015
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

The island of Java is home to several major languages. Javanese—spoken mainly in Central and East Java— is the world’s 10th or 11th largest language in number of native speakers. It has one of the oldest and fullest recorded histories of any Austronesian language. It also has been of considerable interest to scholars because of the system of speech levels or speech styles found in a number of varieties of Javanese. Sundanese—spoken in West Java— has over 27 million speakers, and Madurese—spoken on the neighboring island of Madura and throughout parts of East Java—is the third largest local language, with counts ranging from 7 to 13 million speakers. Varieties of both of these languages have speech level systems and such systems can also be found in the geographically, historically, and linguistically related languages on the neighboring islands of Bali and Lombok. Each of these languages displays a range of dialects, isolects, continua, and contact varieties and yet they have received relatively little attention from linguists. With this symposium, we offer an opportunity for scholars working on any aspect of Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese and Sasak to come together and share their findings. We aim to encourage and promote continued research on these important and unique languages. 

The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Dr. Bernd Nothofer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Please note that the 19th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 19) will be held following ISLOJ, at Jambi University, Jambi City, on 12-14 June, 2013.  For more information see: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/19

Co-sponsors:

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
University of Maryland
University of Iowa
Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-organizers:

Thomas Conners, University of Maryland
William Davies, University of Iowa
Eri Kurniawan, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Jozina Vander Klok, University of British Columbia, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary 	Anthropology

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for papers to be presented on any linguistic topics dealing with the languages of Java and its environs—Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese, and Sasak. Papers on other languages will be judged according to their relevance to the symposium topic. Papers are welcome from any subfield of linguistics and using any approach or theoretical background. Studies of non-standard(ized) versions, dialects, and isolects, including contact varieties, are particularly welcome. All papers are to be presented in English. 

Abstracts of one-page [data and references may be on a second page] should be submitted in electronic form (PDF AND MSWord) to Thomas Conners at the following address: tconners at umd.edu 

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2015 
Announcement of acceptance: March 15, 2015.

Please note that the 19th International Symposium on Malay-Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 19) will be held following ISLOJ, in Jambi City, on 12-14 June, 2015.  For more information see: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/19

For more info:

ISLOJ: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/isloj5.php 
http://www.upi.edu/
http://www.upi.edu/en/

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