Call for Papers

22- 23 FEBRUARY 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

About the UGC Srieli Project

The conference will be organized under the University Grants Commission sponsored Project “Study and research in Indigenous and endangered languages during XII plan". The project was given to school of languages and linguistics initially on Sept 9, 2015 and after subsequent ratification, commenced from April 2016 and as per its current commitment it is likely to continue till March 2021. The aim as per the proposal presented to the UGC is to document and build resources on twenty endangered and minor lesser known languages and communities across West Bengal, India. The resources include recordings, images, textual data, linguistic data, anthropological data, language vitality data and so on. Based on this, the resources will be archived on one hand and on the other grammars, dictionaries, reports and segmented audio-visual files will be made available through web.

CFP

Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations on original, unpublished and substantial research relevant to the theme of the conference through the easy chair page

Theme

Archiving and Data management of the endangered and lesser known languages

Sub-Themes

We invite submissions on the following and related sub-themes:

Documentation of endangered and lesser-known languages

Language ecology

Language endangerment scenario

Language policy and language planning

Language revitalization

Community’s participation in language revitalization process

Development of script and orthography

Mother tongue based multilingual education

Technologies for endangered and lesser-known languages

Field ethics and case studies

Language archiving

Language contact, maintenance and shift

Linguistic human rights


Abstract Submission guidelines:

  1. Abstracts of 750-1000 words (excluding references and data) in PDF format is to be uploaded by 15th August, 2018 using the EasyChair system
  2. Abstracts should be completely anonymous for consideration.
  3. Note: One author can submit a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract.
  4. Please send your queries if any to srieli.sll.ju@gmail.com

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline : 21 September 2018 (Friday)

Notification of acceptance : 3rd December 2018

Submission of full paper : 31 December 2018 (Monday)

Publication

An edited volume of the papers, key note address and plenary sessions will be published by UGC SRIELI Project team, JU. The concerned authors will have to modify their papers by incorporating the feedback,observations, comments and suggestions that come out during the presentation.