LINGUIST List 27.4193
Tue Oct 18 2016
Confs: Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics/Georgia
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 17-Oct-2016
From: Natia Putkaradze <natia.putkaradze
tsu.ge>
Subject: International Conference on Endangered Languages
E-mail this message to a friend International Conference on Endangered Languages
Short Title: ICEL 2016
Date: 20-Oct-2016 - 24-Oct-2016
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
Contact: Camiel Hamans and Tinatin Bolkvadze
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://gashol.ge/index.php?lang=en
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
Today the problem of language vitality is one of the important issue of modern theoretical and practical sociolinguistics. We are pleased to invite scholars, students and stakeholders from across the multidisciplinary field of endangered languages.
The Conference is organized by the Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics and Ivané Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The conference is organized under the auspices of CIPL, Comité International Permament des Linguistes.
The conference will be held 20-24 October 2016 at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).
The official languages of the conference are English and Georgian.
Conference Fee: € 120
Editorial Board of the Conference:
Bernhard Hurch, University of Graz, Austria
Reinier Salverda, University College London
Executive Board of the Conference:
Camiel Hamans, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Tinatin Bolkvadze, Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the history of linguistics, Tbilisi State University
Program:
Thursday 20 October 2016
12:00-14:00:
Registration
14:00-14:30:
Opening of the conference - Welcome Addresses:
Thomas Gamkrelidze
(Academician of Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, t.gamkrelidze
science.org.ge)
Ecology of Culture
14:30-15:30:
Plenary Session
Chair: Camiel Hamans
Keynote Speaker David Bradley
(President of Permanent International Committee of Linguists, D.Bradley
latrobe.edu.au)
What to Do about Language Endangerment: Fostering Resilience
16:00: Welcome Reception
Friday 21 October 2016
10:00-11:00:
Registration
11:00-13:00:
I. Session: Documentation of Endangered Languages
Chair: David Bradley
11:00-11:30:
Jost Gippert, Manana Tandaschwili
(Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, gippert
em.uni-frankfurt.de; tandaschwili
em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Digital Documentation of Caucasian Languages: State of the Art and Outlook
11:30-12:00:
Boluwaji Oshodi
(Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Nigeria, bolu_oshodi
yahoo.com)
Does language documentation equal language sustenance? A case study of Arigidi cluster speech forms in South-West Nigeria
12:00-12:30:
Elnur Aliev
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia; Malmo University, Kingdom of Sweden elnur.vugarli
gmail.com)
Documenting of the Kryz Language Vocabulary
12:30-13:00:
Wilson de Lima Silva
(Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA, wdsgss
rit.edu)
Capacity-building for creating digital language material for endangered languages in the Vaupés region of north-west Amazonia
13:00-14:00: Coffee Break
14:00-16:00:
II Session: Linguistic Rights
Chair: Pieter Muysken
14:00-14:30:
Camiel Hamans
(Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland,hamans
telfort.nl)
How the European Charter for Regional and/or Minority Languages may support endangered languages
14:30-15:00:
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
(University of the Highlands and Islands,Inverness, Scotland, UK, sm:00cog
uhi.ac.uk)
Language Endangerment with Language Rights: The case of the Gaelic languages in Scotland and Ireland
15:00-15:30:
Tinatin Bolkvadze
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, tinatin.bolkvadze
tsu.ge; tinatin.bolkvadze
hotmail.com)
Endengered Languages with the Soviet Past
15:30-16:00:
Mikheil Labadze
(St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia, lazurikolxa
gmail.com)
Linguistic Situation in Georgia and Italy According to the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-18:00:
III Session: North Caucasian Languages
Chair: Tinatin Bolkvadze
16:30-17:00:
Diana Forker
(University of Bamberg//University of Jena, Germany, diana.forker
uni-bamberg.de)
Multilingualism and Language Change in Hinuq (Daghestan)
17:00-17:30:
Sarah Slye (Independent scholar, USA, zzslye
gmail.com)
Breaking into Chechen: Learning, Teaching and Documentation
17:30-18:00:
Elvira Aslanova (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia elat-81
mail.ru)
Modern State of Shahdagh Languages
Saturday 22 October 2016:
09:00-10:00:
Registration
10:00-11:00:
Plenary Session:
Chair: Tinatin Margalitadze
Keynote Speaker Tjeerd de Graaf (Mercator European Research
Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning c/o Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, Kingdom of the Netherlands, tdegraaf
fryske-akademy.nl), The use of historical data for the study and safeguarding of endangered languages
11:00-14:00:
IV Session: Language Attitude, Shift and Maintenance
Chair: Krishna Pieter Muysken
11:00-11:30:
Anna Dina Joaquin (California State University, Northridge Department of Linguistics, CA, USA, Anna.joaquin
csun.edu)
An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective of Language Shift and Maintenance
11:30-12:00:
Concha Maria Höfler
(European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder, Germany. hoefler
europa-uni.de)
Language attitudes in Georgia’s Greek community
12:00-12:30:
Dionysios Zoumpalidis
(National Research University Higher School of Economics, Institute of Education, Moscow, Russia, dzubalov
hse.ru)
What is My Ethnic Language? The Socio-economic and Socioemotional Factors Leading to Language Shift/Death: The case of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
12:30-13:00:
Mayranush Shahumyan
(Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia, sh.maia
yahoo.com; mayashahumyan
gmail.com)
Linguistic Features and Social Specifications of Western Armenian Language as an Endangered Language
13:00-14:00: Coffee Break
14:00-16:00:
V Session: Structure of Endangered Languages
Chair: Teresa O’Neill
14:00-14:30:
Thomas Wier
(Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, trwier
gmail.com)
Typological Rara in Tonkawa
14:30-15:00:
Ivane Lezhava
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, ilejava
gmail.com)
Acoustic Analysis of Guttural Consonants of the Svan Language
15:00-15:30:
Celestino Oriikiriza
(Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, oriikiriza
chuss.mak.ac.ug)
Near-synonyms in Lugungu and their meaning differences
15:30-16:00:
Kate Bellamy
(Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, Kingdom of the Netherlands, k.r.bellamy
hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Less stinking and more smelling bad: Endangered smell terms in Purépecha?
16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-19:00:
VI Session: Endangered Languages on the Political Borders
Chair: Thomas Wier
16:30-17:00:
Elena Boudovskaia
(Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. USA, eeb54
georgetown.edu)
Rusyn in Ukraine and Slovakia – an Endangered Language?
17:00-17:30:
Teresa O’Neill, Samantha Mateo, Siyang Pan, Ezra Wyschogrod
(Columbia University, New York, USA, to2286
columbia.edu, smm2272
columbia.edu, sp3379
columbia.edu, eaw2178
columbia.edu)
Zazaki in Contact
17:30-18:00:
Natia Putkaradze
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, natia.putkaradze
tsu.ge)
An Endangered Dialect of the Georgian Language in Turkey
18:30-19:00:
Nato Akhalaia, Rusudan Gersamia, Ketevan Lortkipanidze
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, nato.akhalaia
tsu.ge, rgersamia
iliauni.edu.ge, ketevan.lortkipanidze
tsu.ge)
Issues in Linguistic Studies of Laz in Georgia and Turkey
Sunday 23 October 2016:
09:00-10:00:
Registration
10:00-11:00:
Plenary Session
Chair: Tinatin Bolkvadze
Keynote Speaker: Pieter Muysken
(Radboud University, Nijmegen, Kingdom of the Netherlands p.muysken
let.ru.nl; p_c_muysken
hotmail.com)
Language endangerment and urbanization
11:00-13:00:
VII Session: Revitalization of Endangered Languages
Chair: Päivi Kuusi
11:00-11:30:
Krishna Prasad Chalise
(Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, krishna40e
yahoo.com)
Documentation and Revitalization of a Seriously Endangered language
11:30-12:00:
Steve Hewitt
(Independent scholar, Paris, France, stevehewitt49
gmail.com)
The problem of Neo-speakers in Language Revitalization: The example of Breton
12:00-12:30:
Diana Kakashvili
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia d.kavkasieli
gmail.com)
Revitalization of Languages and its Implementation Mechanisms
12:30-13:00:
Päivi Kuusi
(University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, paivi.kuusi
uef.fi )
Translator Training as an Instrument of Language Revitalization: The Case of Karelian in Finland
13:00-14:00: Coffee Break
14:00-16:00:
VIII Session: Threats, Pedagogy and Oral Tradition of Endangered Languages
Chair: Camiel Hamans
14:00-14:30:
Eszter Tarsoly, Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi
(UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK, e.tarsoly
ucl.ac.uk, r.valijarvi
ucl.ac.uk)
Minority languages of Russia: A case study on pedagogical considerations
14:30-15:00:
Lienjang Zeite
(Centre for Endangered Languages, Arunachal Institute for Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, India, lzeite
gmail.com)
The Status of Endangered Languages and Oral Tradition in Northeast India
15:00-15:30:
Natia Poniava
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Arnold Chikobava institute of Linguistics, Tbilisi, Georgia, natia.poniava
tsu.ge)
For the identification of threats to the Megrelian-Laz language
15:30-16:00:
Jordan Lachler
(University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, lachler
ualberta.ca)
Planning for Adult Learners in Post-Vernacular Language Communities: Towards a Typology of Sites of Secondary Language Transmission
16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-19:00:
IX Session: Language Endangerment
Chair: Naira Bepieva
16:30-17:00:
Naira Bepieva, Nino Popiashvili
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, bepieva.naira
gmail.com; nino.popiashvili
tsu.ge)
Modern Discourse of the Ossetian Language: Challenges and Threats
17:00-17:30:
Tsiuri Akhvlediani, Ketevan Gabunia
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, tsiuriakhvlediani
yahoo.com; keti_gabunia
yahoo.com)
The problem of maintenance of endangered languages: On examples of France and Georgia
17:30-18:00:
Maia Lomia
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, maia.lomia
tsu.ge)
Significance of Fieldwork for the Study of Endangered Languages: Laz language
18:30-19:00:
Nato Tsuleiskiri
(Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia,natatsuleiskiri
yahoo.com)
The Dangers of the Georgian Language in Adjara in the Early Twentieth Century
24 October 2016:
Excursion
Banquet
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