32.2790, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Ling Theories/United Kingdom (Online)

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Subject: 32.2790, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Ling Theories/United Kingdom (Online)

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:10:07
From: Radu Voica [rv4 at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Documentation, Interdisciplinary Theory and Sustainable Development Goals

 
Full Title: Language Documentation, Interdisciplinary Theory and Sustainable Development Goals 

Date: 16-Dec-2021 - 16-Dec-2021
Location: Online (SOAS, London), United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Radu Voica
Meeting Email: ldlt6 at soas.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/16dec2021-language-documentation-interdisciplinary-theory-and-sustainable-development-goals.html 

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

Call Deadline: 26-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The SOAS Department of Linguistics is organising a one-day workshop on
Language Documentation, Interdisciplinary Theory and Sustainable Development
Goals, to be held online on 16th December 2021, as part of the pre-conference
session of the 6th Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory
(LDLT6).

Triggered by earlier concerns about language diversity loss, the field of
(modern) language documentation emerged in the mid-1990s, with the aim to
create, preserve and disseminate comprehensive corpora of not only linguistic,
but also social and cultural practices encoded in minoritised and threatened
languages. As the philosophy and methodology of documentary linguistics have
been shaped and reshaped over the last 25 years or so, its interdisciplinary
nature has become central to its definition. Recently, Bradley & Bradley
(2019) pointed out that, in addition to data from a wide array of local
knowledge, a comprehensive documentation must also capture the interactions
between demographic, geographical, ecological, political, social, economic,
historical, educational and cultural factors. But to what extent can language
documentation inform and influence those fields of enquiry?


Call for Papers:

We invite contributions that use empirical data in order to explore how the
documentation of minoritised and endangered languages, practices and ancestral
folk knowledge can influence the theory and research output of disciplines
other than linguistics, including, but not limited to:

anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, ethnobiology, ethnobotany,
ethnomedicine, ethnomusicology, ethnoastronomy, ethnogeology;
ecology and environmental sciences;
sociology, psychology, behavioural sciences;
health sciences (including mental health);
history and archaeology;
geography, economics, land ownership and land tenure, law, political sciences.

We especially welcome contributions that investigate if, how and to what
extent the relations between documentary linguistics and other disciplines are
relevant to some of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United
Nations in order to encourage global strategies that improve education and
health, stimulate economic growth, tackle ecological issues, reduce conflicts
and inequality, and generally aim to end poverty and deprivation.

MA students, PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers are particularly
encouraged to submit contributions.

Invited speaker
TBC

Abstracts
Presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Each
individual may present up to one single-authored paper and one joint paper
throughout the whole conference (main session and workshops). The deadline for
submission is at midnight (GMT) on Sunday 26th September 2021. The text of the
abstract should be anonymous, a minimum of 11 pt font and no more than one
page in length, including references and examples. They should be in .pdf
format and the file name should start with LDLT6, followed by an underscore
and then first authors’ surname, e.g. LDLT6_ashmore.pdf. If you have a common
surname, please include initials, e.g. LDLT6_jjones.pdf. Abstracts should be
submitted using the LDLT6 Easychair site. Please specify if you would like
your abstract to be considered for the main conference or one of the
workshops.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent in early November, when we will ask
presenters to return to us either a pre-recorded version of their
contribution, which we will play at the established time, or the slides with
no voice-over if they prefer to talk live. In either case, the discussion will
take place live, via the designated online platform.

Interaction
All formal interaction (presentations, questions and comments, round tables
etc.) will be online (platform TBC). Joint viewing facilities will be
available at SOAS, University of London, only for the main conference. A small
reception followed by dinner will be organized on the last day of the
conference for those participants who are based or staying locally, provided
that the social distancing rules are relaxed enough by then.

Proceedings
Selected papers from the main conference and workshops will be published in a
special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Language Documentation and
Description.

Further information and registration details
Further information and registration details may be found at the conference
webpage.

All inquiries should be directed to ldlt6 at soas.ac.uk




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