35.2229, Calls: 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation

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Subject: 35.2229, Calls: 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation

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Date: 09-Aug-2024
From: Bradley McDonnell [mcdonn at hawaii.edu]
Subject: 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation


Full Title: 9th International Conference on Language Documentation &
Conservation
Short Title: ICLDC 9

Date: 06-Mar-2025 - 09-Mar-2025
Location: Honolulu, USA
Contact Person: Bradley McDonnell
Meeting Email: mcdonn at hawaii.edu
Web Site: http://www.icldc-hawaii.org

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Documentation

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

Conference theme: “Navigating new realities in diaspora communities”

One notable achievement of the modern language documentation and
conservation movement has been the (re)centering of community in
language work. Rather than viewing language as an abstract system,
documentary practice increasingly begins with the community, is guided
by the community, and contributes to ongoing maintenance of language
in the community. At the same time the nature of community is
changing. Global forces of migration and urbanization have resulted in
the displacement of language teachers and learners from their
traditional communities, and in many cases these diaspora communities
are now larger than the original communities from which they arose.
And yet, whether intentionally or not, the practice of language
documentation and conservation has largely ignored the diaspora in
favor of more traditional undisplaced communities.

At ICLDC 2025 we propose to initiate a dialogue which will turn the
attention of documentary linguistics to the unique needs of diaspora
language communities. The challenges are manifold. Teaching methods
designed for small monolingual rural communities may not be effective
in large multilingual urban settings. Documentation techniques may
need to be adapted to deal with contact scenarios and language shift.
Moreover, displacement may take many forms, so solutions must be
tailored to the unique context in each community. But the challenges
are nevertheless real and pressing. As the pressure of conflict and
climate change increasingly threaten our world, the future of the
world’s Indigenous languages may well hinge on the ability of our
field to engage effectively in diaspora settings. 

The conference program will feature Keynote talks, Talk Story and
Workshop sessions, papers, and posters. An optional Hilo Field Study
(on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi) to visit Hawaiian language
revitalization programs in action will take place immediately after
the conference (March 10-11). The 8th Workshop on Computational
Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) will take place in
Honolulu immediately preceding the conference (March 3-4).

Call for Papers:

Conference theme: “Navigating new realities in diaspora communities”

Full Call for Papers:
https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/general-session-proposals/

One notable achievement of the modern language documentation and
conservation movement has been the (re)centering of community in
language work. Rather than viewing language as an abstract system,
documentary practice increasingly begins with the community, is guided
by the community, and contributes to ongoing maintenance of language
in the community. At the same time the nature of community is
changing. Global forces of migration and urbanization have resulted in
the displacement of language teachers and learners from their
traditional communities, and in many cases these diaspora communities
are now larger than the original communities from which they arose.
And yet, whether intentionally or not, the practice of language
documentation and conservation has largely ignored the diaspora in
favor of more traditional undisplaced communities.

At ICLDC 2025 we propose to initiate a dialogue which will turn the
attention of documentary linguistics to the unique needs of diaspora
language communities. The challenges are manifold. Teaching methods
designed for small monolingual rural communities may not be effective
in large multilingual urban settings. Documentation techniques may
need to be adapted to deal with contact scenarios and language shift.
Moreover, displacement may take many forms, so solutions must be
tailored to the unique context in each community. But the challenges
are nevertheless real and pressing. As the pressure of conflict and
climate change increasingly threaten our world, the future of the
world’s Indigenous languages may well hinge on the ability of our
field to engage effectively in diaspora settings.

While we especially welcome abstracts that address the conference
theme, we also welcome abstracts on other subjects in language
documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited
to:

Archiving and mobilizing language materials
Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies
Community experiences of revitalization
Ethical issues
Indigenous language education
Indigenous sign languages
Justice in language work
Language and its relation to health and well being
Language planning
Language reclamation and revitalization
Lexicography, grammar, orthography and corpus design
Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
Multidisciplinary language documentation
Recognizing/fostering relationships in language work
Remote language work
Technology in documentation and reclamation
Topics in areal language documentation
Training and capacity building in language work
Presentation formats
Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of
question time.

Authors may submit no more than one individual and one co-authored
proposal (including participation in a Workshop or Talk Story Session
proposal), or no more than two co-authored proposals. In no case may
an author submit more than one individually-authored proposal.

Proposals for general sessions are due by September 30, 2024, with
notification of acceptance by November 1, 2024.



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