29.3614, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3614. Wed Sep 19 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3614, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/United Kingdom

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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:33:19
From: Mari Jones [mcj11 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Ninth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment

 
Full Title: Ninth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment 

Date: 02-Jul-2019 - 02-Jul-2019
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Mari Jones
Meeting Email: mcj11 at cam.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/ninth-cambridge-conference-language-endangerment 

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

Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

Ninth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment
Language Revitalisation: New speakers, new challenges, new linguistic forms

The main aim of language revitalisation is to set an endangered language back
‘on its feet’. Revitalisation strategies may be developed and implemented by
linguists, the State, language activists and the speakers themselves. However,
these strategies, which attempt to make the endangered language an attractive
and useful resource for modern users, may result in the transformation of the
endangered language rather than restoring it to its old self. 

This conference invites papers that reflect on these issues: What are the main
challenges that face revitalising languages today and how do these differ from
those faced by endangered languages? How realistic are the chances of
returning an endangered language to its old domains (especially when, for
pragmatic reasons, revitalisation campaigns tend to focus outside rather than
inside the home)? What might the consequences of language revitalisation be in
terms of the linguistic structure of the variety being revitalised? To what
extent are ‘new-speakers’ in speech communities where an endangered language
is being revitalised also agents of linguistic change? Can corpus planning
ever completely undo the linguistic results of extensive interaction with the
dominant language? Does language planning restore speech communities or does
it transform them? Are ‘new-speakers’ ever at odds with ‘traditional’ speakers
in terms of their geographical location, their social backgrounds, the nature
of the variety they speak and even their reasons for speaking it? – and does
this matter?



Call for Papers:

Abstracts: (200 words maximum) to be submitted via email to the organisers by
April 7 2019. Please include in the abstract document your name and your
affiliation as you would like to see them in the programme.  

Paper format: 20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions

Organisers:

- Mari Jones (Department of French/ Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)
mcj11 at cam.ac.uk
- Oliver Mayeux (DTAL/Peterhouse, University of Cambridge) ofm23 at cam.ac.uk
- Damien Mooney (Department of French, University of Bristol)
damien.mooney at bristol.ac.uk




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