28.2962, Calls: Lang Doc, Typology/India

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2962. Fri Jul 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2962, Calls: Lang Doc, Typology/India

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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:31:02
From: Sujoy Sarkar [sujoy.jnu at gmail.com]
Subject: International Conference on Endangered and Lesser Known Languages

 
Full Title: International Conference on Endangered and Lesser Known Languages 
Short Title: ELKL 6 

Date: 21-Feb-2018 - 23-Feb-2018
Location: Mysore, India 
Contact Person: Sujoy Sarkar
Meeting Email: elkl6.2018 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.sppel.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Endangered and Lesser Known Languages conference was begun to serve as a
platform for academicians, researchers and members of speech communities to
deliberate issues relevant to language endangerment and share their latest
findings. This annual conference aims to create interest and awareness in
lesser known languages and train young scholars in documenting endangered
languages. The first ELKL conference took place at the University of Lucknow
in 2012. The Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages
which is monitored by Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) is happy to
announce that the sixth ELKL conference will take place at the Central
Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 21-23 February 2018.


Call for Papers:

The theme of the 6th ELKL-2018 is ''Language Endangerment and Language
Revitalization: Policies, Planning and Practices''. Abstracts are invited for
oral and poster presentations on original, unpublished and substantial
research relevant to the theme of the conference.

We invite submissions on the following and related sub-themes:
- Documentation of endangered and lesser-known languages
- Language ecology
- Language endangerment scenario
- Language policy and language planning
- Language revitalization
- Community's participation in language revitalization process
- Development of script and orthography
- Mother tongue based multilingual education
- Technologies for documenting endangered and lesser-known languages
- Field ethics and case studies
- Language archiving
- Language contact, maintenance and shift
- Linguistic human rights  

Abstracts of 750-1000 words (excluding references and data) in PDF format is
to be uploaded by 15th September, 2017 using the EasyChair system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkl6 
Abstracts should be completely anonymous for consideration.
Note: One author can submit a maximum of one single-authored and one
co-authored abstract.




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