Communities in Control

Communities in Control
Short Title : FEL XXI

Date : 19-Oct-2017 - 21-Oct-2017
Location : Alcanena, Portugal
Contact Person : Vera Ferreira
Meeting Email : < click here to access email >
Web Site : http://www.cidles.eu/events/mercator-soas-cidles-fel-2017/

Linguistic Field(s) : Language Documentation ; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline : 23-Jul-2017

Meeting Description :

During the last two decades many regional minority and endangered languages have been documented, a process which has led to the creation of different archived collections. This has been, however, mostly, a scholar-driven effort and the concerned language communities have, themselves, not been involved in it and have not identified with the documentation projects. Most of the data thus produced, especially archived material, has, consequently, been too little used by communities for their own initiatives.

This situation requires an urgent shift in the research model and archive interfaces. It is extremely important to work directly and in collaboration with the speech communities but crucially, also, to empower these communities and provide them with the ability to participate with their own expertise in the definition and implementation of research agendas and projects, thus making it possible for their needs and interests to determine that implementation.

Whilst it is understandable that language documentation should follow the initiatives of scholars as well as communities, revitalisation, for its part, if it is to be successful, needs to be entirely community-driven. Revitalisation should be a bottom-up process, motivated, desired and designed by the community ; it must be integrated into its everyday life and inseparable from it.

Call for Papers :

This 3-day event aims to focus on community-driven activities.
Abstracts are invited for papers on the following subtopics :

Community-driven revitalization projects :
- Use of archives for language safeguarding, revitalization and teaching
- Connecting communities to archived collections : content, interface, language
- Development of linguistic tourism : connecting language revitalization to local economic development as a way of increasing the status of local languages

Any abstract should be in English, and up to 500 words in length.
It must include 3 to 5 keywords, and be sent as Word or PDF to both infocidles.eu and nostler.net by July 23rd, 2017.

In the body of the email, but separate from the abstract, please include the following information :
author(s), institution(s), phone number(s), e-mail(s).

Each presentation will be assigned 30 minutes : we recommend allowing 5 to 10 minutes of this time for questions and discussion.

Accepted authors are expected to submit a paper for the Proceedings in advance of the conference. They will receive a style-sheet with their notice of acceptance.