29.2150, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discipline of Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Documentation/Iceland

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Subject: 29.2150, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discipline of Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Documentation/Iceland

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Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 13:27:52
From: Sebastian Drude [drude at xs4all.nl]
Subject: Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism

Full Title: Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism 
Short Title: FEL XXII 

Date: 23-Aug-2018 - 25-Aug-2018
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland 
Contact Person: Sebastian Drude
Meeting Email: vimiuc at hi.is
Web Site: http://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 27-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural
Understanding and the Foundation for Endangered Languages cordially invite
scholars, community organizations and community members to join the
International Conference Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes
of Multilingualism, to take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, from August 23 to 25
2018. The conference will be of interest to all those working on the
maintenance, revitalization, documentation and archiving of endangered
languages.

This conference is FEL XXII, the 22nd annual conference of the Foundation for
Endangered Languages. A proceedings volume will be published.

Main Themes:

Endangered Languages and the Land:

The conference will pose questions such as: how do language endangerment
scenarios vary in different regions in the world? What roles do land (or lack
of it) play in speakers’ continued use of their languages? To take one
example, many Indigenous communities in Australia have immutable connections
between language and land, and language affiliations follow from people’s
relationships with land. In other parts of the world, scattered communities
can retain their identity through sharing a common language communicated
across distances.

Mapping Multilingualism:

How can we make relationships between language and land visible? Language maps
are a frequently used tool. However, current practice in language mapping
needs to be further developed. Most current language maps use either points or
bounded areas (usually non-overlapping) to represent the location or range of
individual languages - but the true language landscape is typically much more
complex than that. One reason for that is multilingualism.

The conference encourages papers describing innovative approaches that seek to
represent these much more intricate patterns through mapping or by similar
means, making use of digital technology or other cartographic methods and
devices. Proposals could address questions such as: How can diglossia be
shown? How can we better research and display the distribution of domains
where languages are used? How can we visualize language shift and other
changes over time?

Special theme: 20 years of language documentation:

This year marks twenty years since the publication of Nikolaus Himmelmann’s
seminal paper “Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics” in Linguistics. Since
then, Language Documentation has developed mainly as a response to the need to
make lasting records of the world’s many endangered languages, and to support
speakers of these languages in their desire to maintain them. Funding
programmes such as DOBES, ELDP and DEL have supported language documentation
activities with language communities, encouraged linguists to work with
primary (digital) data, and, more broadly, raised public awareness of language
endangerment.

Under this theme, we invite papers that reflect on current practices in
Language Documentation as a part of efforts to counter language endangerment,
its impact in the academic sphere, and its contribution to language vitality
and linguistic diversity.

Call for Papers:

The deadline has been extended by one week, now until the 27 of May.

The early-bird registration is now open at
http://vigdis.hi.is/fees_and_registration

This 3-day International Conference on Endangered Languages and the Land
focuses on endangered languages and their relation to territory/home/land, and
the potential of innovative cartographic and other visual means to represent
complex multilingual language situations. The conference will also reflect on
the development of Language Documentation as a field. We invite abstracts for
papers on the following or related topics:

- Endangered languages and their territory/home/land
- Re-thinking strategies for countering language endangerment, especially
taking into account specific regional conditions
- Innovative language mapping/visualization techniques for representing
diglossia, multilingualism, language-use domain distribution, etc.
- Development of and perspectives for the field of Language Documentation
- Community-driven efforts for Language Documentation, language maintenance
and language revitalization
- Supporting languages by drawing on existing Language Documentation resources

Submitting abstracts:

Abstracts should be in English, no longer than 500 words, and must include a
title of up to 15 words, and 3 to 5 keywords. They should be emailed as Word
or PDF attachments to both of the following email addresses:

vimiuc at hi.is
nicholas at ostler.net (FEL Chair)

In the body of the email, but not in the abstract, include the following
information:

author(s), institution(s), phone number(s), e-mail address(es)

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 27 May 2018 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: 4 June 2018
Deadline for submission of full papers (draft): 15 July 2018
Early bird registration starts: 17 May 2018 (now open)
Early bird registration ends: 8 July 2018
Registration deadline: 12 August 2018
Conference: 23-25 August 2018

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