Vitality of a Minority Language

Full Title: Vitality of a Minority Language

Date: 15-Oct-2010 – 16-Oct-2010
Location: Bellinzona, Switzerland
Contact Person: Elena Maria Pandolfi Matteo Casoni
Meeting Email: decs-olsi@ti.ch
Web Site: http://www.ti.ch/olsi

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2010

Meeting Description:

The congress aims at an in depth discussion of the parameters relevant to the evaluation of the degree of vitality of a minority language. Particular attention will be given to quantitative and qualitative indices that may be used for monitoring the ‘health condition’ of languages with a minority position in a country. The situation of the Italian language in Switzerland will be a special focus of interest.

The congress themes are:

A) Indices of a minority language vitality

(i) The concept of vitality index and its relevance for minority languages
(ii) Internal linguistic vitality
(iii) External sociolinguistic vitality
(iv) Methodology for quantitative measurements
(v) Methodology for qualitative measurements

B) Goals and aims of the researches on language vitality

(i) Sociolinguistic situation of a community and language vitality researches
(ii) Implications, effects and hints of the language vitality researches for a minority language protection and promotion

Call for Papers:

The congress program contemplates 8 invited presentations (40 minutes each) and a workshop with 8 papers selected through this Call for Papers.

Papers on general aspects concerning the Congress themes will be welcome but main attention should be devoted to the situation of Italian language in Swiss Confederation and to similar European comparable situations.

Abstracts:

Researchers working on these topics are invited to send an abstract of about 500 words of their proposed paper. The abstracts should contain the paper title, the name of the author /authors, the postal and e-mail addresses, the thematic area and have to be sent to the e-mail address decs-olsi@ti.ch. Abstracts received will be reviewed and selected by the Scientific Committee.

Deadline to submit abstracts: 31st January 2010.
Deadline of notifications of acceptance/rejection: 30th March 2010

A small contribution to the expenses may be assigned to PhD students presenting an accepted paper or at least taking part to the congress. Interested PhD students are invited to send the application within 31st January 2010, along with the title of their PhD thesis and a presentation letter by their PhD professor.

Congress Languages: Italian, German, French and English

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Simposio Traducción e identidad diaspórica: «Topos y Anthropos en el Discurso de la Rumanidad» (TID)

Alicante (España), del 12 al 14 de noviembre de 2009
URL: http://www.ua.es/personal/iliescu/simposio/

Se espera la participación de la comunidad académica internacional, lectores de rumano de diversos países, jóvenes investigadores, miembros de la diáspora rumana cuyas pasiones e intereses profesionales se enmarquen dentro de cualquiera de las siguientes áreas temáticas de este simposio:
1. La dimensión cultural en la Traducción / Interpretación (desde o hacia el rumano)
2. Literatura rumana y comparada
3. Lengua rumana, lenguas en contacto, lingüística románica y lingüística contrastiva

Plazo de envío de propuestas: hasta el 5 de octubre de 2009
Notificación de contribuciones aceptadas: 15 de octubre de 2009

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Hoy ha comenzado el XIII Congreso de la AHLM

Hoy ha comenzado el XIII Congreso de la AHLM, que se prolongará hasta el día 19 de este mes. Para los que todavía no estéis allí y os encontréis cerca es una buena oportunidad para acercarse hasta Valladolid. Ya se disponen de las primeras instantaneas del Congreso, así como de todos los detalles e informaciones en su sitio web: http://www3.uva.es/XIIIahlm/

V Congreso Internacional de Latín Medieval Hispánico

V Congreso Internacional de Latín Medieval Hispánico

Barcelona, del 7 al 10 de septiembre de 2009

Universidat Autònoma de Barcelona-Universitat de Barcelona

Información e inscripción, http://www.uab.es/congresolatinmedieval ; cg.latin.medieval@uab.cat

Libros de caballerías digitalizados BNE

Nos informa José Manuel Lucía Megías:
La Biblioteca Digital Hispánica de la Biblioteca nacional de España ha puesto en marcha una nueva colección: «Libros de caballerías». Ofrece digitalizados gran parte de los ejemplares caballerescos que se conservan en la BNE.

Libros de Caballerías Digitalizados BNE

Locus Criticus

Prezados/as compañeiros/as:

Querémosvos comunicar que dende o Departamento de Filoloxía Galega e Latina da Universidade de Vigo acabamos de poñer a andar o LOCUS CRITICUS (https://webs.uvigo.es/locuscriticus/), un foro ou plataforma dixital de debate sobre cuestións de crítica textual centradas na lírica medieval. Coidamos que esta é unha iniciativa útil que pode facilitar a comunicación entre os membros do noso eido científico (sobre todo na edición de textos trobadorescos), así como actualizar e axilizar a reflexión e o debate sobre aspectos problemáticos derivados da lectura e interpretación das fontes manuscritas.
Estades todos/as convidados/as a coñecer e participar en LOCUS CRITICUS. Agradecémosvos de antemán todas as críticas, comentarios e suxestións que nos fagades chegar e que, certamente, contribuirán á súa mellora.
Recibide un saúdo moi cordial.

Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo
Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra

Departamento de Filoloxía Galega e Latina
Universidade de Vigo

Colloque oia sur la variation et le changement en langue (langues romanes)

Full Title: Colloque oia sur la Variation, le Changement en  Langue
Short Title: Diaconference 2010

Date: 13-Sep-2010 – 15-Sep-2010
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Contact Person: Marie-Guy Boutier, Pascale Hadermann, Marieke Van Acker
Meeting Email: Pascale.Hadermann@UGent.be, Marieke.VanAcker@UGent.be
Web Site: http://www.diaconference2010.ugent.be

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2009

Meeting Description:

Le groupe ??? et le réseau Gramm-R organisent un colloque international consacré au thème de la variation en langue. L’ambition de ce colloque est d’inciter au débat interdisciplinaire par le biais de communications qui aborderont des problématiques aussi diverses que :

-Le rapport oral / écrit
-Le rapport standard / dialectes
-Le rapport micro-système / macro-système
-Les continuités et discontinuités dans l’évolution des langues romanes
-La transition du latin aux langues romanes
-Les paramètres de la variabilité

Le colloque accueillera en son sein un atelier consacré à l’évolution diachronique des systèmes de cohésion du français, en ciblant la catégorie de la conjonction : Diachronie des conjonctions. Cet atelier, organisé par Annie Bertin et Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, prendra principalement pour champ d’observation les périodes du moyen français (14e-15e siècles) et du français pré-classique (16e- début 17e siècles).

En réunissant des spécialistes ?uvrant dans différentes branches de la linguistique – que ce soit la linguistique historique, la dialectologie, la sociolinguistique, la stylistique, la pragmatique – afin qu’ils échangent leur expertise, nous espérons voir émerger de nouvelles perspectives, qui pourront féconder les recherches sur la dynamique et le changement en langues.

Date:

13-15 septembre 2010

Lieu:

Université de Gand

URL:

http://www.diaconference2010.ugent.be

Conferenciers Pleniers:

Gaetane Dostie
Françoise Gadet
Johannes Kabatek
Rosanna Sornicola

Langues de Travail: Toutes les langues romanes ainsi que l’anglais.

Call for Papers:
Modalites de Soumission:

Les candidats intervenants sont priés de soumettre leurs propositions de contribution, ne dépassant pas 2 pages (format .DOC, A4, corps Times 12, interligne 1,5) et indiquant clairement le sujet traité (avec bibliographie), ainsi qu’une page séparée mentionnant nom, prénom, appartenance administrative, adresse postale, adresse électronique et titre de la contribution par courier électronique à Pascale.Hadermann@UGent.be et à Marieke.VanAcker@UGent.be avant le 15 décembre 2009.

Pour l’atelier Diachronie des conjonctions, veuillez adresser votre proposition à bertin.annie@wanadoo.fr et à hbzs22@post.tau.ac.il en respectant les memes consignes de mise en page et de date.

Publication:

Les organisateurs prévoient la publication d’une sélection de présentations sous forme de recueil(s) thématique(s).

Calendrier:

Date limite de la soumission : 15 décembre 2009
Notification des acceptations : 1er mars 2010
Programme préliminaire : 15 avril 2010
Pré-inscriptions : 15 avril – 15 juin 2010
Inscriptions : 15 juin –  août 2010
Colloque : 13-15 septembre 2010

(Fuente: The Linguist List)

Going romance

Full Title: Going Romance 2009

Date: 03-Dec-2009 – 05-Dec-2009
Location: Nice, France
Contact Person: Twan Geerts
Meeting Email: goingromance23@let.ru.nl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic
Theories

Subject Language(s): French (fra)
Italian (ita)
Latin (lat)
Portuguese (por)
Romanian (ron)
Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2009

Meeting Description:

Going Romance is the European conference series that focuses on Romance
languages from the perspective of current linguistic theorizing. In the two
decades of its existence, it has developed into the major European discussion
forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current
ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are
discussed. This year, for the first time, the conference is really going Romance
and will be held in Nice, France. Organized by the Radboud University Nijmegen
and the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, it will take place in the Maison du
Séminaire, 3-5 December 2009.

This year’s invited speakers will be:

-Donca Steriade
-Luigi Rizzi
-Anne Zribi-Hertz

The conference lasts for three days, with two days for the general session.
Slots for invited speakers are 60 minutes (45+15), while slots for selected
speakers are 40 minutes (30+10). The conference includes a workshop on
Diachrony of the Romance Languages on December 5th.

Call for Papers

As every year, the third day of the conference is devoted to a special
workshop. This year, the workshop focuses on linguistic change in relation to
linguistic theory. We invite abstracts for 40 minute presentations (30 minute talk,
10 minute discussion).

In order to submit, please upload an anonymous abstract on the Going Romance
2009 page of Easy Abstracts (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/goingromance09)
by the 1st of September 2009, indicating whether your abstract is intended for
the main session or the special workshop.  You will be notified of acceptance
by October 1st, 2009.

The conference will be held in the Maison du Séminaire (http://www.maison-
seminaire-nice.cote.azur.fr), where rooms have been reserved at a group rate
for Going Romance 2009.

(Fuente: The Linguist List)

Festival of Languages

Festival of Languages

Date: 17-Sep-2009 – 07-Oct-2009
Location: Bremen, Germany
Contact: Thomas Stolz
Contact Email: stolz@uni-bremen.de
Meeting URL: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/festival/default.aspx

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

The Festival of Languages will take place in September/October 2009 in Bremen,nGermany. It is meant to familiarise the general public with the idea of the linguistic diversity of our world as a positive value of humankind that needs to be preserved.

(Fuente: The Linguist List)