From nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk Tue Jul 11 08:12:09 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA25200 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:11:56 -0700 Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA28766 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:11:55 -0700 Received: from chibcha.demon.co.uk ([158.152.51.25]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13C1eQ-0009UP-0A; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:08:48 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: chibcha@pop3.demon.co.uk Message-Id: Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:03:28 +0100 To: linguist@unix.tamu.edu, endangered-languages-l@carmen.murdoch.edu.au, lagb@essex.ac.uk, LG-SHIFT@SIL.ORG, nat-lang@gnosys.svle.ma.us, baalmail@education.leeds.ac.uk, indknow@u.washington.edu, From: Nicholas Ostler Subject: CFP: Bilingualism at the Ends of the Earth: Waikato 24-26 xi 2000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="macintosh" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, and the Xunta de Galicia (government of Galicia, Spain) are hosting an international conference on societal bilingualism, focusing on heritage and indigenous languages, to be held at the University of Wailkato on the 24th - 26th November, 2000. The four themes are as follows. 1. Language Policy. This theme encompasses the official status of indigenous languages, legislation, linguistic Rights, normalisation, and the promotion of the use of the minority languages through the public media. 2. Bilingual Education. The fundamental role of of the education system for the many societies whose goal is the maintenance of an indigeneous and/or heritage language. Topics open for discussion include the provision of vernacular education at any level and the training of teachers for immersion and bilingual models. 3. Language Development. The systematic development of vocabulary to equip languages for new roles and to keep pace with advances in knowledge raises methodological as well as policy issues.Problems in the dissemination and reception of newly defined terminology also arise. 4. Globalisation and minorty indigenous languages. The tensions ibncreasing internationalisation and the need for lingue franche on the one hand, and on the other, the role of minority and indigenous languages in the self identification of peoples are experinced in many societies. The need to achieve balance in satisfying these pressures has implications for all areas of language planning and maintenance. The conference will invite keynote speakers in these areas as well as provide the opportunity for participants to present their own research and atudies within the context of parallel thematic sessions, workshops and plenaries. Contributions in the form of shorter (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion) or longer (30 minutes plus 15 minutes for discussion) or longer (30 minutes plus 15 minutes for discussion) papers, poster presentations, roundtable discussions are very welcome. Accommodation will be available at the University's halls of residence and at the University's marae. The marae is the centre of Maori community life and consists of an open space for format ceremonies of welcome and a number of buildings. The most important of these is the meeting house in which people meet to talk and to entertain guests, and in which all sleep communally. For those who prefer it, accommodation can also be booked privately in nearby motels. It would be greatly appreciated by the organisers if prospective participants could indicate their interest in attending and contributing as soon as possible. If you would like accommodation in the University's halls of residence, or alternatively you would like accommodation at the University's marae, or would prefer accommodation in a motel, please supply list and contacts. In addition, should you be interested in presenting a paper, please submit the title, an abstract of up to 150 words by 31st MŠrch 2000, preferably in electron form to: biling2000@waikato.ac.nz Website: http//www.waikato.ac.nz/ling/reorua Fax: (64)(7)8384932. Postal address for the conference: Bilingualism at the Ends of the Earth, c/- Assoc. Prof. R.B.Harlow, Department of General and Applied linguistics, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3015, Hamilton, New Zealand. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Ostler President Foundation for Endangered Languages Registered Charity 1070616 Batheaston Villa, 172 Bailbrook Lane Bath BA1 7AA England +44-1225-85-2865 fax +44-1225-85-9258 nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk http://www.ogmios.org http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/ .