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9. Forthcoming Meetings Linguistic Anthropology in the Circumpolar World: Fairbanks, Alaska, 1-3 Apr. 1999 Session at the 26th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association Seeking presentations on linguistic anthropology, both applied and theoretical, in Alaska and other circumpolar regions. Particularly appropriate would be presentations in which linguistics is centered within four-field anthropology. A non-exclusive list of topics includes: the relevance of linguistic anthropology to social issues, sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, language and culture, linguistic relativity, language contact, language conservation, language and education, language policy and planning, and historical linguistics. Interested presenters should send abstracts to Roy Iutzi-Mitchell; Anthropology Department; University of Alaska Anchorage; Anchorage, Alaska 99508-8334 or to ffri(at)aurora.alaska.edu by 5 February 1999. Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, IL, April 22-24 The 35th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will take place at the University of Chicago, April 22-24, 1999. Invited speakers for the main session will be Beth Levin (Northwestern U) and Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins U). Original, unpublished papers are invited on any topic of general linguistic interest. In addition, papers are invited addressing one of the following panel topics: -- Language, Identity, and the Other (Thursday, April 22): Language serves as a means to unite as well as to exclude groups or individuals. This panel will explore the linguistic mechanisms by which this is accomplished in different speech communities. Invited Speakers: Robert Greenberg (U of North Carolina), and Michael Silverstein (U of Chicago). -- ChiPhon 99: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Basic Units of Speech (Friday, April 23): This panel seeks to synthesize findings from linguistics and other fields which investigate linguistic behavior, to determine whether these can be used as evidence for a unified theory of basic units of speech processing. Invited Speakers: John Ohala (UC- Berkeley), and Joseph Perkell (MIT). -- Theory and Linguistic Diversity (Saturday, April 24): Approximately five thousand languages are spoken throughout the world today. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which linguistic theories attempt to account for such variety. Invited Speakers: Mark Baker (McGill U), Joan Bresnan (Stanford), and R.M.W. Dixon (ANU).
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is February 1, 1999. Guidelines for abstracts may be obtained by visiting the CLS website at:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/
Student Conference in Linguistics 11 with Special Theme of Endangered Languages. The University of Texas at Austin. May 8-9, 1999. The 11th annual Student Conference in Linguistics will be held at the University of Texas at Austin May 8-9, 1999. SCIL is a student-run conference which aims to bring together graduate students from around the world to present their research and build connections with other students. The proceedings are published in the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. We invite original, unpublished work in any area of linguistics. We would particularly like to encourage submissions which focus on endangered or underdescribed languages, in keeping with the conference theme. Guidelines for Submission: Please submit ten copies of a one-page, 500-word, anonymous abstract for a twenty-minute paper (optionally, one additional page for data and/or references may be appended), along with a 3" by 5" card with:
(1) your name, The abstract should be as specific as possible, and it should clearly indicate the data covered, outline the arguments presented, and include any broader implications of the work. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 5:00 PM, February 15, 1999. Send abstracts to:
SCIL 11 Abstract Committee
E-mail abstracts will be accepted. Please email us or consult our web page for detailed instructions. Email abstracts should be submitted to Further information is available at http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~scil/index.html Questions can be directed to scil(at)ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
- Ralph C. Blight Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999: Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative, May 6 - 8, 1999
Conference Speakers:
Plenary panel on Bilingual Education: Mauro E. Mujica, Chairman, U.S. English Foundation "The Official English Movement and Bilingual Education Reform" Delia Pompa, Director, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, U.S. Department of Education "Update on the Reauthorization of the Bilingual Education Act" Rosalie Pedalino Porter, Director, Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development "Educating English Language Learners in U.S. Schools: Agenda for a New Millennium" Tutorials with Stephen Krashen and John Rassias. Pre-conference session by the Federal Interagency Language Roundtable and the Society of Federal Linguists PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 31, 1999
Dr. James E. Alatis, Chair or Alison McArdle, Coordinator, GURT 1999, Georgetown University, International Language Programs and Research, 519 B Intercultural Center, Box 57-1045, Washington, DC 20057-1045 The 6th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference (SILC) will be held at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in conjunction with the 20th annual American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI). It will take place June 3-5, 1999, and is being co-sponsored by SSILA. The conference will produce strategies for heightening awareness of the importance of indigenous languages, extending existing languageenvironments, and creating a new generation of speakers. The goal is to inspire indigenous communities to continue to develop and expand the circle of native language speakers. Proposals are being accepted for workshops, panels, paper presentations, roundtable discussions and policy planning groups promoting the theme "One Voice, Many Voices: Recreating Indigenous Language Communities". Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
1) Workshops/Panels/Presentations
2) Roundtables
For forms and guidelines on submitting proposals, contact AILDI by phone at 520/626-7555, or by e-mail at
The deadline for submission of proposals is January 15, 1999. The registration fee will be $125 (if received by March 31), and $150 after April 1. Registration fee for students (with proof) is $50.
More detailed information will be posted shortly. If you have any questions, contact Akira Yamamoto (akira(at)ukans.edu), Ofelia Zepeda
(zepeda(at)linguistics.arizona.edu), or Teresa McCarty (tmccarty(at)mail.ed.arizona.edu).
Workshop on Language Maintenance and Death at LSA Summer Institute, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 17-18,1999
We all know that the empirical lifeblood of the linguistics discipline--the languages of the world--is diminishing at a truly alarming rate. This workshop wishes to pool the ideas and sharpen the research tools of linguists at the institute, to deal with language maintenance and salvage projects both in North America and across the globe. Prominent fieldworkers/ researchers/ theoretical linguists--such as Ian Maddieson (UCLA) and Sally Thomason (Pittsburgh)--will lead discussions of language endangerment problems. They will also explicitly present their experiences of successful methods utilised in maintenance work, and will offer the workshop participants elaborated justification for why such work is absolutely crucial both to linguistics and to the larger global community. Young linguists and allied researchers will have the opportunity to present aspects of their own experiences, and most importantly to hear from others in the field how maintenance work can best proceed.
Topics covered will include the following:
· what kinds of goals do language maintenance programs set themselves?
Fees: $10 for students, $15 for faculty
Ideas of topics for presentation and discussion are welcome. Please contact the workshop organizer:
http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/groups/cs/
Language Policy at the Millennium, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, November 23-25, 1999
Call for research reports, case studies, problem statements in language planning and policy.
The Language Policy Research Center in cooperation with the Lechter Institute and the Lewis Family Fund for International Conferences in the Humanities are now planning the Second International Symposium on Language Policy.
Our goal for the Symposium is to provide an opportunity to reassess the current status of language policy studies at the end of the century and to clarify theory and methods of the field. We hope to identify questions and define guidelines for the next decade of research.
Six invited papers will serve as conceptual and theoretical jumping off points for the shorter research reports and case studies requested in this call. The focal papers will be given by Joshua A. Fishman, Joseph Lo Bianco, Lachman Khubchandani, Peter Nelde, Carol Myers-Scotton, and Bernard Spolsky. In order to offer data-based challenges to the discussion, we invite abstracts of research reports, case studies or statements of a problem in the field of language policy and planning, from which we will select a small number for presentation, each to be juxtaposed with one of the focal papers. In addition, there will be a poster session for presentation of individual research.
Please submit your abstract of a proposal for a short research report, case study, or statement of a problem in an area of language policy by March 1, 1999 to Joel Walters at the address below. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 15, 1999.
Organizing Committee:
Language Policy Research Center
Additional information will soon be available on the LPRC website:
http:/www.biu.il/HU/lprc
Conference on Languages in Contact, Groningen University, November 25-26, 1999
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
A conference on languages in contact will be held on November 25-26, 1999, at the University of Groningen. This conference will include sessions devoted to descriptive and theoretical aspects of language contact.
The aim of this conference is to discuss language contact. Issues for discussion involve pidgins and creoles, minorities and their languages, Diaspora situations, 'Sprachbund' phenomena, extralinguistic correlates of variety in contact situations, problems of endangered languages and the typology of these languages.
We particularly welcome reports on contact phenomena between languages in Russia, their survival and the influence of Russian. This includes Yiddish and Mennonite dialects of Low-German. There will be a special session devoted to this topic: languages in contact with Russian.
The conference will be held on the occasion of the degree of honorary doctor in St Petersburg of Dr Tjeerd de Graaf.
We welcome contributions for 30-minute presentations (including 10
minutes of discussion).
Invited speakers, in alphabetical order:
Liya Bondarko (University of St Petersburg)
Abstracts should be restricted to two pages, including examples and references. Two copies of abstracts should be submitted, one anonymous, and one mentioning the author's name, affiliation, postaladdress and e-mail address. The deadline for submission of abstracts: April 1, 1999.
Abstracts should be sent to:
The organizing committee: John Nerbonne, Jos Schaeken, Dicky Gilbers, Dept Linguistics, University of Groningen, Oude Kijk in `t Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK Groningen, The Netherlands
e-mail: nerbonne(at)let.rug.nl, schaeken(at)let.rug.nl, gilbers(at)let.rug.nl
Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000: The Interface between Linguistics and Social Theory. UWE (Bristol), 27-29 April 2000
University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE, Bristol) Centre for European Studies (CES), Faculty of Languages and European Studies (LES) & School of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (ESS)
The Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000 is the thirteenth meeting of the Sociolinguistics Symposium which meets once every two years. This conference will focus primarily on the Interface between Linguistics and Social Theory, and it is hoped the meeting will contribute to further cooperation between the two disciplines. The conference welcomes papers from a range of different subject areas such as: language variation and change, language and gender, language and the media, discourse analysis, languages in contact, creole linguistics, intercultural communication, language and migration, social stratification of language, language development and other related topics.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
PROVISIONAL TITLES OF COLLOQUIA
COMMITTEE
The deadline for proposals of colloquia is: 1 June 1999.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is: 1 September 1999.
Abstracts are welcomed for oral presentation (20 mins + 10 mins discussion) or poster presentation. Please send 4 hard copies, one of which contains your name and address, as well as an electronic version (Rich Text Format) of the abstract to the address given below.
More information about the conference programme, the venue and the general organisation of the event can be found either on our website:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults
Jessa Karki/Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Centre for European Studies (CES), UWE, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK
+ 44 117 976 3842, ext 2724, Fax: -976 2626 (admin.) Jessa.Karki(at)uwe.ac.uk; (acad.) Jeanine.Treffers-Daller(at)uwe.ac.uk
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