LINGUIST List 23.892 Tue Feb 21 2012 Confs: Sociolinguistics/Spain 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.     Carla Amorós , 2nd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages Message 1: 2nd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages Date: 21-Feb-2012 From: Carla Amorós <carlitausal.es> Subject: 2nd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages E-mail this message to a friend 2nd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages Short Title: NDV Date: 11-Jul-2012 - 13-Jul-2012 Location: Salamanca, Spain Contact: Carla Amorós Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://eventos.usal.es/go/salamancandv2012 Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: 2nd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV): Exploring Linguistic Standards in Non-Dominant Varieties Salamanca, Spain 11-13 July 2012 2012 is the 20th anniversary of Michael Clyne’s fundamental volume in the studies of pluricentrism: Pluricentric Languages: different norms in different nations (1992). In the last decades, with the impact of globalization, there has been a growing interest in doing research into the emergence of national and cross-national language varieties, from an interdisciplinary context: Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Corpus Linguistics, etc. In this sense, the Working Group on Non-Dominating Varieties of Pluricentric Languages focuses, particularly, on the documentation and description of the non-dominant linguistic norm-setting centres and focuses on different aspects of their linguistic and pragmatic situation: corpus, status and education/acquisition planning, explicit and implicit language policies, national internal variation, convergence or divergence between varieties, language attitudes, etc.). Last July, the first conference of the group proposed the guidelines and research objectives so as to delimit which varieties can be considered as ‘non- dominant’ within a language and to systematize its analysis. As Clyne (1992: 464) pointed out in the epilogue, ‘no doubt there will be greatly increased interaction between the centres of the pluricentric languages, leading perhaps to more convergence, not necessarily in the direction of the dominant centres, but perhaps to new centres. There will be need for empirical study of the linguistic consequences of contact between national varieties’. Twenty years later, we would like to contribute to this task, with our second symposium, and focus on whether and how the grade of endonormativity-exonormativity of the varieties of the traditional centres and peripheries has changed. This involves updating the current situation of the languages included in Clyne (1992): Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi-Urdu, Korean, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil and also studying Albanian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Kurdish, Persian, Romanian, and Russian from a pluricentric approach. It would be interesting to establish a scale of dominance/non-dominance/symmetry-asymmetry between the varieties of these languages and how the concept of standard is defined or conceived in the different linguistic cultures. Social Programme: Reception in Caballerizas (free) Salamanca’s tour (including the library of the Historical University of Salamanca) (free) Conference dinner Trip to Candelario (small village near Salamanca) 11th July 9-10: Registration (Anaya Hall) 10-11.30: Session 1 Papers 11.30-12: Official inauguration 12-13: Keynote Speaker Prof. Dr. Rudolph Muhr 13-14.30: Reception in Caballerizas (Lunch) 16.00-18.00: Session 2 Papers 18.00-18.30: Coffee break 18.30 Salamanca's tour (including the library of the Historical University of Salamanca) (free) 12th July 9-11: Session 3 Papers 11-11.30: Coffee break 11.30-14: Session 4 Papers 14-16: Lunch break 16-17.30: Session 5 Papers 17.30-18: Coffee break 18-20: Roundtable/ Report about the current situation of some pluricentric languages: Spanish, English, German, French and Portuguese (invited keynote speakers): Prof. Dr. Klaus Zimmermann (Universität Bremen) Prof. Dr. Julio Borrego Nieto (Universidad de Salamanca) Prof. Dr. Edgar Schneider (Universität Regensburg) Prof. Dr. Rudolph Muhr (Universität Graz) Prof. Dr. Georges Lüdi (Universität Basel) Prof. Dr. Augusto Soares Da Silva (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga) 21: Conference dinner 13th July Trip to Candelario (small village near Salamanca) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Feb-2012       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.