[RNLD] CfP "Language movements" panel at the Aust Anthrop Soc meetings (4-Dec, JCU)

[Debra McDougall]

Dear Colleagues,

Michelle O’Toole and I are convening a panel  'Language movements: Endangerment, revitalisation, and social transformation<https://nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7140>' at AAS2018<https://www.aasconf.org/2018/home> (annual meetings of the Australian Anthropological Society whose 2018 theme is ‘Life in an Age of Death’).

We welcome paper proposals from colleagues in linguistics or anyone involved in a linguistically-oriented social movements. Please see panel details below and submit your abstract by 16 July via the conference website<https://nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7140>.

If you have any questions about the panel or your proposal, please send us an email.

Best regards,
Debra McDougall
and on behalf of Michelle O’Toole
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Panel:
Language movements: Endangerment, revitalisation, and social transformation

Convenors:
Dr Debra McDougall (University of Melbourne)
Michelle O’Toole (La Trobe University)

Short abstract:
Amidst discourses of language death, this panel focuses on social movements aimed at revitalising or reforming language. We ask how people seek to transform their lives by transforming their languages.

Long abstract:
Among the many manifestations of human creativity that seem to be under threat today are languages. Predictions of language death have prompted linguists and others to document languages they fear may not survive the onslaught of globalisation. Scholars and laypeople alike are seeking to revitalise moribund languages or relearn the languages of their ancestors. Often, though, discourses of language endangerment focus primarily on the health of language, not the lives of the people who are remembering or forgetting old languages and embracing or inventing new languages. In this panel, we explore questions including, how is the flourishing of a language related to the flourishing of a community? How do linguistic practices shape or constrain socio-economic mobility or a sense of belonging? How are people seeking to transform their lives by transforming their languages? Or, how are changes in language transforming their lives in ways they may not recognise? We invite papers that focus on the revitalisation of small languages, the development of new linguistic repertoires, or negotiations around national or global languages. While the specific focus of the panel is language movements, the broader aim is to foster new conversations among anthropologists interested in any aspect of the social dynamics of language.





Dr. Debra McDougall  |  Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
School of Social and Political Sciences  |  Faculty of Arts

Room E464, John Medley (Building 191)
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
P: +61 3 834 45648
E: debra.mcdougall at unimelb.edu.au





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