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Call for Papers
"New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe"
International Conference
Institute for Anthropological Research (INANTRO)
LINEE Network of Excellence
Dubrovnik (Croatia)
11-15 April 2010
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This international conference is organized by the partners
of LINEE Network of Excellence in collaboration with the
members of the integrated project DYLAN. It is co-funded by
the European Commissions 6th Framework Programme for
Research and Development.
Conference goals
With an increased awareness of international globalisation
and European integration, the existing mainstream
conceptualizations of multilingualism and linguistic
diversity have been increasingly questioned, in particular
within the humanities and the social sciences. In a EU
context of socio-political transition it is therefore a
challenge to take stock of the existing disciplinary
knowledge, and to reassess it against the background of the
ongoing integration process which goes along with the
transformation of traditional linguistic and cultural
patterns where languages still function as markers of
national identity and as symbols of social and economic
power manifestations.
After almost four years of joint research, the goal of this
top-level conference will be spreading the outcomes of
research conducted by the LINEE network of excellence at the
European and national/regional levels of policy making as
well as to the general public and the public media with the
aim of strengthening linkages between theoretical analysis
and the dissemination of research results. In cooperation
with researchers involved in the DYLAN project on language
dynamics and management of diversity the Conference will
also strive to provide a common platform for the exploration
of new perspectives for research in the identified field.
Call for papers
The conference is intended to bring together academics
representing a range of disciplines in humanities and social
sciences, practitioners and EU/national policy makers,
concerned with multilingualism and linguistic diversity in
Europe. Proposals are invited for original and previously
unpublished research papers that broadly fall within the
following themes and topics:
A. Language, Culture and Identity:
Within the context of ongoing glocalisation, the emergence
of multiple identities compels to redefine the role of
languages and lingua francas as identity markers, and as
factors contributing to the distinctiveness of
culture-specific environments. The overall objective of this
thematic block is to clarify the saliency of language as an
identity marker in the EU. This points to the role of
language in identity formation processes, the existence of
language-based multiple identities, and the significance of
language as part of well-being of their speakers, and
primary symbol of possible secondary cultural, economical,
political and other non-linguistic motives.
B. Language Policy and Planning:
This thematic bloc is addressed to researchers interested
not only on the institutional, intrinsic and professional
process-oriented dimension, but also to those concerned with
an often unnoticed, implicit or unintended language policy
and language planning processes. A consensus on the
demarcation between such concepts as "language policy",
"language planning" and related concepts ("aménagement
linguistique", "language politics") will be discussed. The
issues to examine concern the adequacy of the existing
language policy and language planning efforts in the EU
countries, identifying possible discrepancies between theory
and practice.
C. Multilingualism and Education:
The main issue to be tackled concerns the challenge of
becoming not only multilingual, but multicompetent in a
multilingual environment and the ways of developing the
capacity to behave in a flexible and adequate manner in
concrete multilingual contexts. The two main fields in which
these questions can be answered, are in general a) Second
Language Acquisition, including all forms of language
acquisition apart from first language acquisition, from
contact languages present in the territory to school
learning of truly foreign languages) and b) bilingual
Education (including concurrent learning of several
languages).
D. Language and Economy:
This topic is focused on the interplay between language and
economy and their impact on the building of a
knowledge-based society. The focus will be on the
relationship between language, geographical mobility and New
Economy growth patterns. If we conceive of the economic
order as a determining force in society, and if we take into
account that economy cannot do without language, then it
follows that economy has profound implications for language
(its use and status, the emergence of lingua francas) in
society. This is all the more true as economy itself has
shifted from industrial age to a knowledge economy.
The abstract submission deadline for individual papers is
October 1, 2009. Abstracts should be written in English,
while oral presentations can be made in any of the European
languages. (No translation services will be provided!)
Contact:
Lana Peternel
Institute for Anthropological Research
Lj. Gaja 32, P.O. Box 290
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Phone: +385-1-5535104
Fax: +385-1-5535105
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference.html
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