LINGUIST List 22.3941 Sat Oct 08 2011 Confs: Language Documentation/UK Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Mari Jones , Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges Message 1: Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges Date: 06-Oct-2011 From: Mari Jones <mcj11cam.ac.uk> Subject: Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges E-mail this message to a friend Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges Date: 06-Jul-2012 - 06-Jul-2012 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact: Mari Jones Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1688/ Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Meeting Description: At a time when UNESCO deems 43% of the world's 6,000 languages at risk of extinction, the imperative to record and analyse these linguistic varieties while they are still spoken has scarcely been greater. Yet researchers have ostensibly been slow to avail themselves of the opportunities offered by new technologies, from visual and aural archiving, to digitisation of textual resources and electronic mapping, techniques which could have the potential to play an integral role in reversing language shift. However, it is clear that with these new technologies come new challenges for the linguist. The 2nd Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment invites researchers to bring forward their ideas for tackling these issues: to share experiences from the field, to consider how these new resources might best be applied, as well as the problems that they can bring, to reassess more traditional techniques in light of new technologies and to work with a view towards achieving a practicable synthesis of old and new methodologies. At this critical time, the conference seeks to ignite the debate as to what, if indeed anything, new technologies have to offer the fields of documentation, revitalization and maintenance, and how the research community might seek to enhance the functionality of these resources in order to advance their application beyond mere superficies. The conference will include the following plenary sessions: Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy, The Netherlands): The Use of Sound Archives for the Documentation and Maintenance of Siberian Endangered Languages and Cultures Nicholas Ostler (The Foundation for Endangered Languages): Endangered Languages in the New Multi-lingual Order: Per Genus et Differentiam Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.