27.4193, Confs: Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics/Georgia

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:56:35
From: Natia Putkaradze [natia.putkaradze at tsu.ge]
Subject: International Conference on Endangered Languages

International Conference on Endangered Languages 
Short Title: ICEL 2016 

Date: 20-Oct-2016 - 24-Oct-2016 
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia 
Contact: Camiel Hamans and Tinatin Bolkvadze 
Contact Email: gashol.ge at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://gashol.ge/index.php?lang=en 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Today the problem of language vitality is one of the important issue of modern
theoretical and practical sociolinguistics. We are pleased to invite scholars,
students and stakeholders from across the multidisciplinary field of
endangered languages. 

The Conference is organized by the Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History
of Linguistics and Ivané Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The
conference is organized under the auspices of CIPL, Comité International
Permament des Linguistes. 

The conference will be held 20-24 October 2016 at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi
State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

The official languages of the conference are English and Georgian.

Conference Fee: € 120

Editorial Board of the Conference:

Bernhard Hurch, University of Graz, Austria
Reinier Salverda, University College London

Executive Board of the Conference:

Camiel Hamans, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Tinatin Bolkvadze, Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the history of linguistics,
Tbilisi State University

Program:

Thursday 20 October 2016

12:00-14:00:
Registration

14:00-14:30:
Opening of the conference - Welcome Addresses:
Thomas Gamkrelidze
(Academician of Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Ivane Javakhishvili
Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, t.gamkrelidze at science.org.ge)
Ecology of Culture

14:30-15:30:
Plenary Session
Chair: Camiel Hamans
Keynote Speaker David Bradley
(President of Permanent International Committee of Linguists,
D.Bradley at latrobe.edu.au)
What to Do about Language Endangerment: Fostering Resilience

16:00: Welcome Reception

Friday 21 October 2016

10:00-11:00:
Registration

11:00-13:00:
I. Session: Documentation of Endangered Languages
Chair: David Bradley

11:00-11:30:
Jost Gippert, Manana Tandaschwili
(Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, gippert at em.uni-frankfurt.de;
tandaschwili at em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Digital Documentation of Caucasian Languages: State of the Art and Outlook

11:30-12:00:
Boluwaji Oshodi
(Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Nigeria, bolu_oshodi at yahoo.com)
Does language documentation equal language sustenance? A case study of Arigidi
cluster speech forms in South-West Nigeria

12:00-12:30:
Elnur Aliev
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia; Malmo University,
Kingdom of Sweden elnur.vugarli at gmail.com)
Documenting of the Kryz Language Vocabulary

12:30-13:00:
Wilson de Lima Silva
(Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA, wdsgss at rit.edu)
Capacity-building for creating digital language material for endangered
languages in the Vaupés region of north-west Amazonia

13:00-14:00: Coffee Break

14:00-16:00:
II Session: Linguistic Rights
Chair: Pieter Muysken

14:00-14:30:
Camiel Hamans
(Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland,hamans at telfort.nl)
How the European Charter for Regional and/or Minority Languages may support
endangered languages

14:30-15:00:
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
(University of the Highlands and Islands,Inverness, Scotland, UK,
sm:00cog at uhi.ac.uk)
Language Endangerment with Language Rights: The case of the Gaelic languages
in Scotland and Ireland 

15:00-15:30:
Tinatin Bolkvadze
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia,
tinatin.bolkvadze at tsu.ge; tinatin.bolkvadze at hotmail.com)
Endengered Languages with the Soviet Past

15:30-16:00:
Mikheil Labadze
(St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of
Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia, lazurikolxa at gmail.com)
Linguistic Situation in Georgia and Italy According to the UNESCO Atlas of the
World’s Languages in Danger

16:00-16:30: Coffee Break

16:30-18:00:
III Session: North Caucasian Languages
Chair: Tinatin Bolkvadze

16:30-17:00:
Diana Forker
(University of Bamberg//University of Jena, Germany,
diana.forker at uni-bamberg.de)
Multilingualism and Language Change in Hinuq (Daghestan)

17:00-17:30:
Sarah Slye (Independent scholar, USA, zzslye at gmail.com)
Breaking into Chechen: Learning, Teaching and Documentation

17:30-18:00:
Elvira Aslanova (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi,
Georgia elat-81 at mail.ru)
Modern State of Shahdagh Languages

Saturday 22 October 2016:

09:00-10:00:
Registration

10:00-11:00:
Plenary Session:
Chair: Tinatin Margalitadze
Keynote Speaker Tjeerd de Graaf (Mercator European Research
Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning c/o Fryske Akademy,
Leeuwarden, Kingdom of the Netherlands, tdegraaf at fryske-akademy.nl), The use
of historical data for the study and safeguarding of endangered languages

11:00-14:00:
IV Session: Language Attitude, Shift and Maintenance
Chair: Krishna Pieter Muysken

11:00-11:30:
Anna Dina Joaquin (California State University, Northridge Department of
Linguistics, CA, USA, Anna.joaquin at csun.edu)
An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective of Language Shift and Maintenance

11:30-12:00:
Concha Maria Höfler
(European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder, Germany.
hoefler at europa-uni.de)
Language attitudes in Georgia’s Greek community

12:00-12:30:
Dionysios Zoumpalidis
(National Research University Higher School of Economics, Institute of
Education, Moscow, Russia, dzubalov at hse.ru)
What is My Ethnic Language? The Socio-economic and Socioemotional Factors
Leading to Language Shift/Death: The case of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus

12:30-13:00:
Mayranush Shahumyan
(Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia, sh.maia at yahoo.com;
mayashahumyan at gmail.com)
Linguistic Features and Social Specifications of Western Armenian Language as
an Endangered Language

13:00-14:00: Coffee Break

14:00-16:00:
V Session: Structure of Endangered Languages
Chair: Teresa O’Neill

14:00-14:30:
Thomas Wier
(Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, trwier at gmail.com)
Typological Rara in Tonkawa

14:30-15:00:
Ivane Lezhava
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia,
ilejava at gmail.com)
Acoustic Analysis of Guttural Consonants of the Svan Language

15:00-15:30:
Celestino Oriikiriza
(Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, oriikiriza at chuss.mak.ac.ug)
Near-synonyms in Lugungu and their meaning differences

15:30-16:00:
Kate Bellamy
(Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, Kingdom of the Netherlands,
k.r.bellamy at hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Less stinking and more smelling bad: Endangered smell terms in Purépecha?

16:00-16:30: Coffee Break

16:30-19:00:
VI Session: Endangered Languages on the Political Borders
Chair: Thomas Wier

16:30-17:00:
Elena Boudovskaia
(Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. USA, eeb54 at georgetown.edu)
Rusyn in Ukraine and Slovakia – an Endangered Language?

17:00-17:30:
Teresa O’Neill, Samantha Mateo, Siyang Pan, Ezra Wyschogrod
(Columbia University, New York, USA, to2286 at columbia.edu,
smm2272 at columbia.edu, sp3379 at columbia.edu, eaw2178 at columbia.edu)
Zazaki in Contact

17:30-18:00:
Natia Putkaradze
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia,
natia.putkaradze at tsu.ge)
An Endangered Dialect of the Georgian Language in Turkey

18:30-19:00:
Nato Akhalaia, Rusudan Gersamia, Ketevan Lortkipanidze
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia,
nato.akhalaia at tsu.ge, rgersamia at iliauni.edu.ge, ketevan.lortkipanidze at tsu.ge)
Issues in Linguistic Studies of Laz in Georgia and Turkey

Sunday 23 October 2016:

09:00-10:00:
Registration

10:00-11:00:
Plenary Session
Chair: Tinatin Bolkvadze
Keynote Speaker: Pieter Muysken
(Radboud University, Nijmegen, Kingdom of the Netherlands p.muysken at let.ru.nl;
p_c_muysken at hotmail.com)
Language endangerment and urbanization

11:00-13:00:
VII Session: Revitalization of Endangered Languages
Chair: Päivi Kuusi

11:00-11:30:
Krishna Prasad Chalise
(Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal,
krishna40e at yahoo.com)
Documentation and Revitalization of a Seriously Endangered language

11:30-12:00:
Steve Hewitt
(Independent scholar, Paris, France, stevehewitt49 at gmail.com)
The problem of Neo-speakers in Language Revitalization: The example of Breton

12:00-12:30:
Diana Kakashvili
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
d.kavkasieli at gmail.com)
Revitalization of Languages and its Implementation Mechanisms

12:30-13:00:
Päivi Kuusi
(University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, paivi.kuusi at uef.fi )
Translator Training as an Instrument of Language Revitalization: The Case of
Karelian in Finland

13:00-14:00: Coffee Break

14:00-16:00:
VIII Session: Threats, Pedagogy and Oral Tradition of Endangered Languages
Chair: Camiel Hamans

14:00-14:30:
Eszter Tarsoly, Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi
(UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK,
e.tarsoly at ucl.ac.uk, r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk)
Minority languages of Russia: A case study on pedagogical considerations

14:30-15:00:
Lienjang Zeite
(Centre for Endangered Languages, Arunachal Institute for Tribal Studies,
Rajiv Gandhi University, India, lzeite at gmail.com)
The Status of Endangered Languages and Oral Tradition in Northeast India

15:00-15:30:
Natia Poniava
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Arnold Chikobava institute of
Linguistics, Tbilisi, Georgia, natia.poniava at tsu.ge)
For the identification of threats to the Megrelian-Laz language

15:30-16:00:
Jordan Lachler
(University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, lachler at ualberta.ca)
Planning for Adult Learners in Post-Vernacular Language Communities: Towards a
Typology of Sites of Secondary Language Transmission 

16:00-16:30: Coffee Break

16:30-19:00:
IX Session: Language Endangerment
Chair: Naira Bepieva

16:30-17:00:
Naira Bepieva, Nino Popiashvili
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia,
bepieva.naira at gmail.com; nino.popiashvili at tsu.ge)
Modern Discourse of the Ossetian Language: Challenges and Threats

17:00-17:30:
Tsiuri Akhvlediani, Ketevan Gabunia
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia,
tsiuriakhvlediani at yahoo.com; keti_gabunia at yahoo.com)
The problem of maintenance of endangered languages: On examples of France and
Georgia

17:30-18:00:
Maia Lomia
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia,
maia.lomia at tsu.ge)
Significance of Fieldwork for the Study of Endangered Languages: Laz language

18:30-19:00:
Nato Tsuleiskiri
(Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia,natatsuleiskiri at yahoo.com)
The Dangers of the Georgian Language in Adjara in the Early Twentieth Century

24 October 2016:

Excursion
Banquet

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