LINGUIST List 25.2158
Thu
May 15 2014
Calls: Language
Documentation/USA
Editor for this issue:
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Date: 15-May-2014
From: Andrea Berez
<andrea.berez
gmail.com>
Subject: 4th International
Conference on Language Documentation and
Conservation
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Full Title: 4th International Conference on
Language Documentation and Conservation
Short Title: 4th ICLDC
Date: 26-Feb-2015 - 01-Mar-2015
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Contact Person: Jim Yoshioka
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://icldc-hawaii.org/.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2014
Meeting Description:
The 4th International Conference on Language
Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC),
“Enriching Theory, Practice, &
Application,” will be held February 26-March 1,
2015, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu,
Hawai‘i. The conference is hosted by the
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and is supported
in part by the US National Science
Foundation.
The program for this 3½ day conference will
feature an integrated series of Master Classes
on the documentation of linguistic structures,
and a series of NSF-Supported Special Sessions
on pedagogy in language conservation. An
optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of
Hawai‘i) to visit Hawaiian language
revitalization programs in action will
immediately follow the conference.
The theme of the 4th ICLDC, “Enriching Theory,
Practice, and Application,” highlights the need
to strengthen the links between language
documentation (practice), deep understanding of
grammatical structure (theory), and methods for
teaching endangered languages (application). At
this conference, we intend to focus on language
documentation as the investigation of grammar
and linguistic structure on the one hand, and
the development of that investigation into
sound pedagogy for endangered languages on the
other. We hope you will join us.
For more information and links to past
conferences, visit our conference website:
http://icldc-hawaii.org/
2nd Call for Proposals:
4th International Conference on Language
Documentation & Conservation
General papers, posters, electronic posters
For information about the NSF-Supported Special
Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation,
please see the separate announcement or the
conference website:
http://icldc-hawaii.org/.
Please read carefully as some information has
changed since last year.
1. Regular Conference Talks, Posters, and
Electronic Posters
Proposal deadline: August 31, 2014
Topics:
We especially welcome abstracts that address
the conference theme, “Enriching Theory,
Practice, & Application.” Discipline-wide
reflection on the relationship between the
documentation of grammatical structure and
language pedagogy is crucial if the proper
documentation and conservation of endangered
languages is to be effective. Our aim here is
two-fold: to create citizen scientists who can
reflect on their language for the purpose of
teaching and documenting without being hindered
by metalanguage, and to enrich the
contributions of linguists to linguistic theory
and description via documentation.
We are also seeking abstracts on the science of
documentation and revitalization. Documentation
is usually portrayed as a means of collecting
language data, and revitalization is generally
seen primarily as a kind of applied work
directly benefiting communities. However, each
of those domains is a genuine area of research,
and we welcome presentations that treat
documentation and revitalization not merely as
activities, but also as domains requiring
discussion, clarification, and theorization in
their own right.
In addition to the topics above, we warmly
welcome abstracts on other subjects in language
documentation and conservation, which may
include but are not limited to:
- Archiving matters
- Community experiences of revitalization
- Data management
- Ethical issues
- Language planning
- Lexicography and grammar design
- Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic
vitality
- Orthography design
- Teaching/learning small languages
- Technology in documentation – methods and
pitfalls
- Topics in areal language documentation
- Training in documentation methods – beyond
the university
- Assessing success in documentation and
revitalization strategies
Presentation Formats:
Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for
presentation with 10 minutes of question
time.
Posters will be on display throughout the day
of presentation. Poster presentations will run
during the early afternoon. Poster
presentations are recommended for authors who
wish to present smaller, more specific topics,
or descriptions of particular projects.
Electronic posters (e-posters) are
opportunities for presentations of software,
websites, and other computer-based projects, in
an environment that allows face-to-face
interaction with the audience. Similar to a
traditional poster session, e-poster presenters
will use their own laptop computers to display
their projects while the audience walks around,
watching demonstrations and asking questions.
E-poster sessions will take place in the early
afternoon in a room with tables and internet
access.
2. Abstract Submission
Abstracts should be submitted in English, but
presentations can be in any language. We
particularly welcome presentations in languages
of the region discussed.
Authors may submit no more than one individual
and one co-authored proposal (including
participation in a Special Session proposal),
or no more than two co-authored proposals. In
no case may an author submit more than one
individually-authored proposal.
Proposals for general papers, posters, and
electronic posters are due by August 31, 2014,
with notification of acceptance by October 1,
2014.
Because of limited space, please note that the
Abstract Review Committee may ask that some
general abstracts submitted as papers be
presented as posters or electronic posters
instead. Selected authors will be invited to
submit their conference papers to the journal
Language Documentation & Conservation for
publication.
How to prepare your proposal:
We ask for abstracts of no more than 400 words
for online publication so that conference
participants will have a good idea of the
content of your paper, and a 50-word summary
for inclusion in the conference program. All
abstracts will be submitted to blind peer
review by international experts on the
topic.
To facilitate blind peer review, please do not
include your name or affiliation in your
abstract or filename. Your proposal should only
include your presentation title, abstract, and
list of references (if applicable).
If you are including references/citations to
your own work in your abstract, please be sure
to replace your name(s) with ''Author''. For
example, if you are Ted Smith and you wrote an
article in 2009, which you are citing in your
file (i.e., Smith (2009) ), you would change it
to ''Author (2009).'' If you are including a
list of references at the end, also make sure
to anonymize any of your publications similarly
as well.
Please note that your reference list is not
counted in your 400-word abstract maximum, only
the main abstract text.
Please save your abstract as an MS Word
document or PDF file. MS Word is preferred.
However, if you are using special fonts,
special characters, or diagrams in your
abstract, a PDF file is recommended to make
sure it displays as you intend.
For a file name, use an abbreviated version of
your title. For example, if your presentation
title is ''Revitalizing Hawaiian for the next
generation: Social media tools,'' your filename
might be ''Revitalizing_Hawaiian.doc'' or
''Revitalizing_Hawaiian_social_media.pdf''.
To submit an online proposal, visit
http://icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org/
and click on ''Call For Proposals''.
Proposal Review Criteria:
- Appropriateness of the Topic: Does the
paper/poster address the themes of the
conference or Special Session?
- Presentation: Is the abstract well-written?
Does it suggest that the paper/poster will be
well organized and clearly presented?
- Importance of the Topic: Is this an important
topic within the area? Is the paper/poster
likely to make an original contribution to
knowledge in the field? Will it stimulate
discussion?
- Contribution to the discipline: For talks,
does the presentation make a methodological or
theoretical contribution to the discipline? If
not (e.g., project descriptions), could the
presentation be submitted as a poster or
electronic poster?
3. Timeline
April 1, 2014: Call for Proposals announced
May 31, 2014: Proposals for Special Sessions on
Pedagogy in Language Conservation deadline
June 30, 2014: Notification of acceptance to
Special Sessions
August 31, 2014: Proposals for general papers,
posters, and electronic posters deadline
October 1, 2014: Notification of acceptance for
general papers, posters, and electronic
posters
October 1, 2014: Early registration opens
January 15, 2015: Early registration
deadline
February 26-March 1, 2015: 4th ICLDC
4. Scholarships
To help defray travel expenses to come and
present at the conference, scholarships of up
to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best
abstracts by (i) students and/or (ii) members
of an endangered language community who are
actively working to document their heritage
language and who are not employed by a college
or university. If you are eligible and wish to
be considered for a scholarship, please select
the appropriate ''Yes'' button on the proposal
submission form. This is applicable to regular
conference papers only (not to the Special
Sessions).
Note: Please be advised that these scholarships
are considered taxable income under U.S. tax
laws. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can
expect to receive a 1099 form to figure into
their annual tax return for 2015. Non-U.S.
citizens/residents may have the applicable
taxable amount (typically 30%) deducted from
the scholarship check prior to receipt.
Questions? Feel free to contact us at
icldc
hawaii.edu.
4th ICLDC Executive Committee:
Victoria Anderson
Andrea L. Berez
Jim Yoshioka
Page Updated: 15-May-2014