LINGUIST List 22.658 Wed Feb 09 2011 Calls: History of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Otto Zwartjes , 7th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics Message 1: 7th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics Date: 09-Jan-2011 From: Otto Zwartjes <O.J.Zwartjesuva.nl> Subject: 7th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 7th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics Date: 28-Feb-2012 - 02-Mar-2012 Location: Bremen, Germany Contact Person: Otto Zwartjes Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/misling2012bremen/ Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2011 Meeting Description: Impacts of Colonial Thinking on Intercultural, Transcultural and Translational Processes and the Influence of the Missionized Other in Missionary Linguistics. Call for Papers: We invite contributions addressing the following topics: -The colonial context and its impact on linguistic work in contrast to Missionary Linguistics without the consideration of the colonial context, if such situations exist. -Missionary Linguistic analysis and political and social consequences for the languages described -Studies on the transcultural manifestations in linguistic description -Implicit and/ or explicit contrastive perspectives on the missionary linguistic studies and their theoretical implications -New (explicit or implicit) constructions for linguistic theory (grammatical and semantic) in the descriptions or meta-linguistic observations by missionaries or in related fields. -Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics etc. As in previous conferences of this series, other contributions on missionary linguistics are welcome as well. The conference languages will be English, Spanish, and German Participants please send the title of their intended presentation along with their contact data (full name, institution, mail address, title) and an abstract indicating -aim of the study -relevance -contextualization of the paper within linguistic or other domains -methods -data, documents -intended results Abstracts (not more than 1 page) should be sent to kzimmermannuni-bremen.de ; hispanuni-bremen.de ; O.J.Zwartjesuva.nl ; schrader-kniffkigmx.de by 1 of October 2011 The abstracts will be evaluated and admission will be granted depending on criteria such as innovative character, quality, and relation to the main topic of the conference. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Feb-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.