LINGUIST List 25.2240
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May 21 2014
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Sociolinguistics/Germany
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Date: 21-May-2014
From: Anneli Sarhimaa
<sarhimaa
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Subject: Multilingualism in
Baltic-Sea Europe
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Full Title: Multilingualism in Baltic-Sea
Europe
Short Title: MultilingBaltSeaEur
Date: 13-Apr-2015 - 15-Apr-2015
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Nora Kruse
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://www.sneb.uni-mainz.de/2014/03/31/multilingualism-in-baltic-sea-europe-call-for-papers/#more-2652
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 31-May-2014
Meeting Description:
Increasing multilingualism is one of the
characteristic features of all Baltic-Sea
European societies today. Additionally to the
numerous regional and minority languages, the
linguistic landscapes are enriched by ever new
migrant languages. Public interest in
multilingualism and the ways of managing it
grows continuously as well. Nevertheless, as
shown by the results of the interdisciplinary
EU-FP7 project ELDIA (2010-2013, see
www.eldia-project.org),
many problems still need to be solved even in
the Nordic societies which generally have a
good international reputation in minority
matters. At the micro level, the intensifying
international mobility of people necessitates a
conscious strengthening of mutual
understanding, more tolerance towards
linguistic and ethnic differences, as well as
more flexibility in one's individual everyday
social practices. In brief, finding and
implementing effective and sustainable macro-
and micro-level measures of coping with the new
forms of multilingualism and for maintaining
and reinforcing the traditional minority and
regional languages are urgently required.
The conference is scheduled to be followed by
the inaugural conference of the International
Society of Literary Linguistics, taking place
in Mainz on 15-17 April 2015. The two
conferences will be bridged by a set of papers
concerned with multilingualism in literature.
The organizers of the current conference also
specifically invite contributions to the study
of the use and the representations of
multilingualism in literature.
The confirmed invited speakers and the thematic
fields of their keynote papers are:
- Karin Hoyer (The Finnish Association of the
Deaf: Sign languages as a special type of
minority languages in Europe)
- Johanna Laakso (University of Vienna:
Multilingualism in Finno-Ugric literatures)
- M. Paul Lewis (SIL International, The
Ethnologue: Baltic-Sea European linguistic
diversity and language endangerment in a global
perspective)
- Ferran Suay (University of Valencia:
Psychobiological aspects of multilingualism,
with a special focus on the challenges in
facilitating a change towards a more assertive
linguistic behavior among speakers of
lesser-used languages)
- Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark (Åland Islands
Peace Institute: Legislation and the linguistic
rights of traditional and new language
minorities in Europe today.)
2nd Call for Papers:
The interdisciplinary conference
Multilingualism in Baltic-Sea Europe seeks to
take up the challenges from sociolinguistic,
psychological, legal and economic points of
view. Papers are invited on any topic related
to multilingualism in Baltic-Sea Europe as a
societal or individual asset and/or
challenge.
Although focusing on the Circum-Baltic area,
the conference aims at embedding the societal
and linguistic processes involving
multilingualism in the Nordic and the Baltic
countries, in Poland, Germany and Northwestern
Russia in more global perspectives.
Proposals are invited in two formats: oral
presentations (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for
discussion) and posters. The abstract should be
no longer than 2,000 characters and include
enough details to allow reviewers to judge the
scientific merit of the proposed paper.
To submit an abstract, please go to
www.sneb.uni-mainz.de/abstract-submission
Important Dates:
Extended call deadline: May 31, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2014
Page Updated: 21-May-2014