Storia del Libro in Europa

Storia del Libro in Europa. Scrittura, Stampa e Lettura

Lecciones Magistrales 2011

12 de mayo (17:00). David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge)

23 de mayo (17:00). Frédéric Barbier (École Pratique des Hautes Études, París)

26 de mayo (17:00). Pedro M. Cátedra (Universidad de Salamanca)

30 de mayo (17:00). Antonio Castillo Gómez (Universidad de Alcalá)

7 de junio (10:00). Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes)

Todas las Lecciones tendrán lugar en la Biblioteca d’Arte e di Storia di San Giorgio in Poggiale Via Nazario Sauro, 22. Bologna Organiza: CERB, Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica. Università di Bologna

Call for papers: Regional/minority language policies in the new milennium

CALL FOR PAPERS

for

INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICSIJOAL
(Vol. 37, No. 2, Jul-Dec 2011)

Special issue on:

REGIONAL/ MINORITY LANGUAGE POLICIES   IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Language policy can be defined as a system of measures regulating the influence of the state on the language functioning on its territory. There is a need therefore to distinguish clearly between state language, official language, national language and regional or minority languages and define their specific social roles to remove the legal ambiguity. It is necessary to distinguish between language policy as decision-making from language planning as implementation. For, policymaking has never been as arduous a task as the implementation part of it.

Problems may be manifold so far as realization of lofty pluralistic goals of the minority language laws is concerned, especially those associated with language attitudes, language and education, development of separate written forms or orthography and development of literacy programs, declining linguistic groups, penetration of English and/ or other majority language into the local and international linguistic practice, and issues of community languages, etc. To this, we may add the growing tendency of homogenisation enforced by development in general and spread of information technology in particular. Besides, the ascendancy and perceived threat of the English language, globalisation, concurrent processes of political integration and disintegration, and the current blossoming of regional identities and concomitant renaissance of minority languages are factors driving the present linguistic developments worldwide. National, cultural, and ethnic identities get carried along the languages, and therefore, population movement affecting the language situation has to be studied in this perspective of changing perceptions of collective and individual identities over the years. A possible solution to this problem may lie in the forecast oriented studies of the language situation and in the implementation of an adequate language policy. The possibility to forecast the advent of the language conflicts and the intentions to prevent aggravations of the national and language conflicts can perhaps improve the acceptance of language laws. The official policy in most parts of the world is generally connoted with the development of bilingualism. But, some think that bilingualism is only an intermediate stage on the way to national monolingualism. With these utopian ideas, it is difficult to eradicate the problem of acceptance of language laws.

Mobility, no matter what way, is bound to have a disruptive influence on the traditional pattern of life. Demographic shifts, as a consequence of globalisation, are likely to have an indelible impact on language maintenance so far as the regional and minority languages are concerned. Creation of a new social class of migrants, resettlers, and Gasterbeiter has added new questions to the problem of survival and maintenance of languages. The role of their language in the new environment may suffer a functional loss, but a strong linguistic allegiance makes it rather difficult to ignore the impact of their respective cultural habits and language behaviour on the existing sociolinguistic and cultural set up. Mobility and migration, therefore, creates new conditions of multilingualism. On the contrary, the majority of world population, though it is fed increasingly into towns, exist in rural areas, where the comparative isolation is a factor favourable to local and regional languages.

The emerging language situation and related problems of language maintenance worldwide are increasingly guided by the socio-economic factors. The situation of regional/ minority languages is likely to deteriorate further as their demand in the job-market is already none to negligible. The socio-economic variable, in the new millennium, adds a new dimension to the problem of language maintenance so far as the case of minority languages is concerned. The minority/ regional languages must therefore be investigated in connection with the way of thinking of a person, and not as an abstract system. The subject and responsibility of scholars and policy makers is the investigation of the language as well as of the social and personal factors, resolution of the contradictions and determination of the ways of the development of the dialogue of cultures.

Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJOAL), in its 35th year of publication, solicits submissions from scholars for its special thematic issue on “Regional/ Minority Language Policies in the New Millennium”. Original works on all minority and regional language related issues ranging from the problems of language planning, policies and implementation to the problems associated with other sociolinguistic variables, especially those emerging in the new millennium, are most welcome.

— The papers pertaining to the areas mentioned above should be submitted to the Guest Editor, on his e-mail <drakdas@gmail.com> with a copy of the same to the Editors on their e-mail as well.

— The last date of submission for the articles would be May 30, 2011.

— For your convenience, we made Guidelines for the preparation of Camera Ready Manuscripts and a Template file (click on the links to download).

Guest Editor
Dr. Alok K Das
Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Formerly, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Singhania University & Dean,
Gurgaon College of Engineering)
E-mail: <drakdas@gmail.com>

Editors
Harpreet Kaur Bahri
Deepinder Singh Bahri
C/o BAHRI PUBLICATIONS
1749A/5, Govindpuri Extension
Kalkaji, New Delhi 110019
E-mail: <bahrius@vsnl.com>

International Symposium on Limits and Areas in Dialectology

Nov. 23-25, 2011, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: June 12, 2011

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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM LIMITS AND AREAS IN DIALECTOLOGY – LimiAr –

Defining the geographical space of linguistic variation and drawing the areal boundedness of linguistic variants are classical issues in dialectology. The beginnings of geolinguistics may
be firmly linked to such interests. Even if the non-discreteness of linguistic variation is well-acknowledged, one of the most specific geolinguistic tasks still is the construction/detection of dialectal areas. Present day dialectology thus continues to count on maps in which the regional distribution of linguistic units and dialect areas appear fairly well delimited one against the other.

The development of geolinguistic methods and their outcomes over the last decades have
significantly shaped new ways of conceiving limits and areas in the study of dialect variation. Also, theoretical advances in the understanding of linguistic variation and its interplay with extra-linguistic factors opened new avenues for interpreting dialectal limits and areas.

We invite researchers to present and discuss issues related to recent developments in the
identification and delimitation of dialect areas, with special focus on:

•theoretical approaches to the spatial dimension of linguistic variation;

•cartographic representation of dialect limits and areas;

•delimitation of linguistic borders and areas and its correlation with non linguistic factors (physical and social geography, political boundaries, identity, etc.);

•evolution of dialectal areas through time.

Each presentation will be allotted 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion.

A limited number of abstracts will also be accepted for a poster session.

Languages for presentation: English and French.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Joan Veny (University of Barcelona)
Hans Goebl (University of Salzburg)

INVITED SPEAKER WORKSHOP “HOW SPATIAL IS DIALECT SYNTAX?”
Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts for the Symposium should be anonymous and restricted to 500-1000 words
(title, aims and methodology, brief discussion and references), to be submitted as an attachment by e-mail to limiar@clul.ul.pt

Acceptable formats for attachments are MS Word and PDF. The following information should be included in the body of the message: name of author(s), affiliation, title of abstract, preference for poster or oral presentation, postal address, e-mail address.
Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one jointly authored.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: June 12, 2011

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: July 15, 2011

For more information, please contact the organizers at: limiar@clul.ul.pt

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: HOW SPATIAL IS DIALECT SYNTAX? – workshop

organized by the CORDIAL team as part of the International Symposium on Limits and Areas in Dialectology (LimiAr). University of Lisbon, November 23-25, 2011

The prolific development of dialect syntax over the last two decades widened up the space for dialectology and linguistic theory to meet. The rise and expansion of several national projects and transnational networks on this research domain led to the systematic study of syntactic properties of dialects, which brought to light a sharper awareness of syntactic variation and of its areal extent.

While the theoretical impact of dialect syntax continues to renew the debate about the
grammatical locus for variation, this workshop calls for contributions addressing the spatial dimension of so-called syntactic variation. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers to present results from recent projects and discuss issues and challenges pertaining to the geolinguistic import of dialect syntax, together with its theoretical,
empirical and methodological implications.

We welcome paper submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:

• geographical boundaries in dialect syntax;
• geolinguistic patterns in the areal distribution of syntactic variants;
• definition and identification of dialectal syntactic variants;
• geographical space as a grammar-external factor for syntactic variation;
• grammatical loci of “syntactic” variables;
• spatial and grammatical correlations between syntactic variants and between syntactic variables;
• idiolectal and dialectal syntactic variation;
• intra-speaker and dialectal syntactic variation;
• methodological challenges/advances in dialect syntax fieldwork;
• cartographic representation of syntactic variables and variants;
• tools for dialect syntax.

Presentations will be allotted 30 minutes, followed
by 10 minutes for discussion.

INVITED SPEAKER
Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)

INVITED SPEAKERS (SYMPOSIUM)
Joan Veny (University of Barcelona)
Hans Goebl (University of Salzburg)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts should be anonymous and restricted to one page (using 2,5 cm margins on all sides, single line spacing and 11pt font size), to be submitted as an attachment by e-mail to
cordialworkshop@clul.ul.pt

Acceptable formats for attachments are MS Word and PDF. The following information should be included in the body of the message: name of author(s), affiliation, title of abstract, postal address, e-mail address. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one
individual and one jointly authored.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: June 12, 2011

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: July 15, 2011

For more information, please contact the organizers at: cordialworkshop@clul.ul.pt.