ELKL 6: International Conference on Endangered and Lesser-Known Languages Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysuru, India, February 21-23, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.sppel.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkl6 |
Submission deadline | October 2, 2017 |
Endangered and Lesser Known Languages conference was begun to serve as a platform for academicians, researchers and members of speech communities to deliberate issues relevant to language endangerment and share their latest findings. This annual conference aims to create interest and awareness in lesser known languages and train young scholars in documenting endangered languages. The first ELKL conference took place at the University of Lucknow in 2012. The Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages which is monitored by Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) is happy to announce that the sixth ELKL conference will take place at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru from 21-23 February 2018.
Submission Guidelines
The theme of the 6th ELKL-2018 is “Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization: Policies, Planning and Practices”. Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations on original, unpublished and substantial research relevant to the theme of the conference.
Abstracts of 750-1000 words (excluding references and data) in PDF format is to be uploaded by 2 October 2017.
Abstracts should be completely anonymous for consideration.
Note One author can submit a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract.
List of Topics
We invite submissions on the following and related sub-themes:
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Documentation of endangered and lesser-known languages
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Language ecology
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Language endangerment scenario
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Language policy and language planning
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Language revitalization
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Community’s participation in language revitalization process
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Development of script and orthography
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Mother tongue based multilingual education
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Technologies for documenting endangered and lesser-known languages
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Field ethics and case studies
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Language archiving
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Language contact, maintenance and shift
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Linguistic human rights
Key Note Speaker Dr. Julia Sallabank (SOAS, UK)
Plenary Speaker
Prof. Anvita Abbi (Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi)
Prof. BRK Reddy (P.S. Telugu University)
Prof. Peter Austin (SOAS, UK)
Venue
Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, India.
Contact
elkl6.2018@gmail.com