31.965, Confs: Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Subject: 31.965, Confs: Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:48:21
From: Katherine Russo [kerusso at unior.it]
Subject: CFP EASA Panel “Australian Languages at Risk: Past, Present and Future''

 
CFP EASA Panel “Australian Languages at Risk: Past, Present and Future “ 

Date: 13-Oct-2020 - 16-Oct-2020 
Location: Napoli, Italy 
Contact: Katherine Russo 
Contact Email: easanaples2020 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.unior.it/doc_db/doc_obj_20459_5e65596108c40.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

As a time for both recollection and projection, the last thirty years in
Australia have been characterised by a reflection on Indigenous and
non-Indigenous languages. The debate on World Englishes and pluricentricity
has highlighted the importance of contact in language variation and change and
has celebrated the existence of “norm-setting epicentres” (Leitner 1992).
Linguistic studies increasingly conceive of English language varieties as
‘constellations’ and have demonstrated how contact settings have resulted in
the linguistic approximation of several parties (Schneider 2007). Yet the
English language has borne the connotation of colonial property since its
introduction in Australia: it has arguably functioned as an unalienable
insignia of colonial authority. Conversely, colonial language policies have
been fiercely directed towards Indigenous languages for they constituted
counterfactual evidence to the claim of terra nullius. The National Indigenous
Languages Report (2005) has found that only twenty of the approximately 230
Indigenous languages which were spoken in Australia before invasion are still
spoken in their full form and only a hundred are spoken by older people.
Similarly, the emergence of Indigenous English varieties has been counteracted
by several processes of institutionalisation which have attempted to reduce
the strength of Aboriginal varieties of English, and there is still scarce
recognition of the heterogeneous varieties which form the Indigenous
Australian English continuum. The standardization of the settler variety of
English as Australian English was mainly achieved under the White Australia
Policy, which guided the imposition of the British education system and the
implementation of restrictive language policies under the Immigration laws and
the Aboriginal Acts until as late as the 1970s. Hence the question of language
death, language maintenance, and language revitalization relates to the way in
which the past, the present and future is envisaged by Australian peoples.

Panel convenors: Rita Calabrese, Gerhard Leitner, Katherine E. Russo
 

Call for Papers: 

The panel aims to explore the following lines of enquiry:
- Language revitalization, maintenance and death in the Australian context
- Contact linguistics
- Australian languages at risk
- Pluricentricity
- Diachronic and synchronic studies of language variation and change
- The role of adstrates
- Language attitudes and ideologies
- Critical approaches to discourse

Please send a 250-words abstract and a 100-words bio-note to the email address
easanaples2020 at gmail.com by 10 April, 2020. 

The full CFP is available here: 
http://www.unior.it/doc_db/doc_obj_20459_5e65596108c40.pdf. 

All  accepted  participants  will be expected  to become members of EASA as a
precondition to presenting their papers. A call  for full-academic-length 
papers derived from conference  presentations will be issued  after  the
conference for publication in the Association’s  online journal, JEASA.





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