LINGUIST List 5.1411

Thu 08 Dec 1994

Confs: Dartmouth College, University of Bristol

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  • Lenore A. Grenoble, Endangered Languages Conference at Dartmouth
  • "D.A.Brickley", THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

    Message 1: Endangered Languages Conference at Dartmouth

     Date: 06 Dec 94 11:56:59 EST
    From: Lenore A. Grenoble <Lenore.A.GrenobleDartmouth.EDU>
    Subject: Endangered Languages Conference at Dartmouth


    Dartmouth College will be hosting a conference on Endangered Languages February 3-5, 1995. The focus of the conference is on areal problems of endangered languages and prospects for their survival.

    The conference is sponsored by generous contributions from: The Steffens Twenty-first Century Fund The Dickey Center for International Understanding The Rockefeller Center

    PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE:

    Friday, February 3 8:00pm Keynote address: Michael Krauss, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

    Saturday, February 4 9:30-12:00 Panel on (Northern) Native American Languages moderator: Lenore Grenoble Dartmouth College, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science and Russian Department

    Leanne Hinton University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics

    Marianne Mithun University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Linguistics

    Ofelia Zepeda University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics

    12:00-2:00 Lunch

    2:00-4:30 Panel on (Southern) Native American Languages moderator: John Watanabe Dartmouth College, Department of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

    Colette Craig University of Oregon, Department of Linguistics

    Nora England University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology

    Kenneth Hale Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

    5:30-6:30 Reception

    Sunday, February 5 9:00-11:30 Panel on Alaskan/Siberian Languages moderator: Sergei Kan Dartmouth College, Program in Native American Studies and Department of Anthropology

    Michael Krauss University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Center

    Nikolai Vakhtin Institute of Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg

    Anthony Woodbury University of Texas, Austin, Department of Linguistics

    11:30-1:00 LUNCH

    1:00-3:30 Panel on African Languages moderator: Lindsay Whaley Dartmouth College, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

    Eyamba Bokamba University of Illinois, Department of Linguistics

    Matthias Brenzinger Institut fur Afrikanistik, University of Cologne

    Carol Myers-Scotton University of South Carolina, Linguistics Program

    3:30-3:45 Coffee Break 3:45-5:45 Roundtable discussion

    REGISTRATION: Fees: $10 for students $20 for faculty For information regarding registration and accomodations, contact:

    Lenore Grenoble (lenore.grenobledartmouth.edu) Lindsay Whaley (lindsay.whaleydartmouth.edu) Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755

    Message 2: THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

     Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 14:07:54 +THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
    From: "D.A.Brickley" <Daniel.Brickleybristol.ac.uk>
    Subject: THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES


    THE CENTRE FOR THEORIES OF LANGUAGE AND LEARNING UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY announces a seminar on THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

    Friday April 21st 1995 at 9 Woodland Rd, Bristol BS8 1TB

    According to reliable estimates, half of the world's six thousand languages will become extinct in the next century. Furthermore, two thousand of the remaining three thousand languages will be threatened during the century after next. In the UK these startling facts have recently received media attention, stimulated partly by the publication this year of the Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley and R.E.Asher (Routledge). The rapid decline is largely due to a mixture of economic and political pressures affecting communities that speak minority languages, pressures which remove the new generation's motivation for communicating in their traditional language. The problem of language-extinction raises fundamental questions. What is the value of these threatened languages to science and to humankind in general? What principles might justify us in striving to keep small languages alive? What reasons are there for preserving them in archive form? The seminar is aimed primarily at academics from such disciplines as philosophy, ethics, anthropology, linguistics, sciolinguistics, cultural history, ecology and population biology, but is open to all interested persons.

    Seminar Programme

    Registration Desk opens 9.30a.m.

    10-11am Mapping the Future of the World's Languages Mr.Christopher Moseley, Co-editor of Atlas of the World's Languages 1994

    11-12 Should Linguistic Diversity be Preserved? Dr. Mark Pagel, Dept of Zoology, Oxford University

    12-1 Who Wants to Learn a Native Language in Latin America? Prof. Marcelo Dascal, Inst.of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    1-2 Lunch

    2-3 Thinking Twice: Issues in Welsh as a Second Language in Children Under 5 Ms. Sian Wyn Siencyn, Language Consultant, Author of The Sound of Europe

    3-4 Orchestrating Language Revival Mr. Allan Wynne Jones, European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages

    4-6 Round Table and Discussion with contributions from the floor

    For further information (including accomodations and registration details), contact the seminar organisers Dan Brickley and Andrew Woodfield (email: centre-tllbristol.ac.uk)

    A background article on the topic is also available by email or by accessing the CTLL World Wide Web pages using the following Internet URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/