Fwd: Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment

[Johanna Laakso]

Dear URA-LIST Colleagues,

forwarded (below, with usual apologies...), a very interesting conference call.

Best
JL
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Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso
Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)
Abteilung Finno-Ugristik
Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7
A-1090 Wien
johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at • http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/
Project ELDIA: http://www.eldia-project.org/ 




Välitetty viesti alkaa:

> Lähettäjä: Julia Sallabank <js72 at SOAS.AC.UK>
> Päiväys: 7. kesäkuuta 2011 16.08.41 UTC+2.00
> Vastaanottaja: ENDANGERED-LANGUAGES-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Aihe: Lähetä edelleen: Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment
> Vastaus: Julia Sallabank <js72 at SOAS.AC.UK>
> 
> Dear colleagues
> 
> With apologies for cross-posting, please can you circulate this to interested colleagues.
> 
> Many thanks
> Julia
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dr. M.C. Jones <mcj11 at cam.ac.uk>
> Date: 25 May 2011 18:45
> Subject: Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am delighted to give you advance notice that the Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment will take place next year at CRASSH and Peterhouse on Friday 6th July 2012. 
> 
> The theme of next year's conference will be:
> 
> Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges 
> 
> According to the UNESCO Atlas of Endangered Languages, 43% of the world’s 6,000 languages are currently under threat of extinction. Unsurprisingly, therefore, linguists have been seeking to analyse and document these languages while they are still spoken. However, it is striking that, in many cases, researchers have been slow to exploit fully the enhanced resources offered by the development of new technologies for areas ranging from visual and sound archiving to digitisation of textual resources to electronic mapping: resources which, if utilised to their full capacity can also be used as teaching resources in language revitalisation. However, these new technologies also bring with them a host of new challenges: one cannot simply graft existing practices onto new instruments. Rather, there is a need for traditional methods and ideas to evolve along with the technology. Moreover, lack of interchange with other teams also often leads researchers to continually reinvent the wheel. This conference invites researchers and language-documentation practitioners from around the world to come together to share their methodologies and to learn from each other.
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> 
> It would be terrific to see you there. I very much hope you can come! 
> 
> More details and a formal Call For Papers will be posted via email lists and on the CRASSH website in due course. The purpose of the present email is simply to give you plenty of advance notice so that those of you who may be interested in attending can put the date in your diaries.
> 
> All best wishes,
> Mari
> 
> ______________________________
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> Dr Mari Jones
> Reader in French Linguistics and Language Change
> Fellow, Director of Studies and Tutor of Peterhouse
> Peterhouse, 
> Cambridge  CB2 1RD
> 
> Tel: 01223 330859
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