International Conference on Language Rights (fwd)

Angel M.Y. Lin (mylin who-is-at oise.on.ca)
Sat, 4 Nov 1995 21:41:34 -0500 (EST)

First Call For Papers

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RIGHTS

June 22-24, 1996 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Organized by the Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic
University in association with a programme committee based a the
Department of Languages and Culture, Roskilde University, Denmark


Plenary Speakers:

Florian Coulmas, Chuo University, Japan
Alastair Pennycook, University of Melbourne, Australia
Robert Phillipson, Roskilde University, Denmark
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Roskilde University, Denmark

Aims

On paper, the rights of individuals and groups to learn and use
their own languages and the official languages of the states they
live in are widely recognised. In practice, these rights are
fully exercised only by the native speakers of a small minority
of the world's languages. This conference aims to explore the
meaning of language rights at an international level and in east
an southeast Asian contexts. Relevant areas include:

-language rights and human rights
-linguistic imperialism
-international languages and global inequalities
-langauge and gender
-literacy and development
-linguistic minorities
-bilingual education
-language and the media
-language and the law
-language and ideology

Papers are welcome which address any of these areas in terms of
language rights. Papers are especially welcome which address
issues of language rights in east and southeast Asian contexts.

Submission of abstracts

Abstracts are invited for paper presentations of 40-45 minutes.
Please submit one copy to fit on one side of A4 to include title
of paper, name of presenter and affiliation.

The main language of the conference will be English. Abstracts
and papers may be in any language. Translation/interpretation
into English will be provided if possible.

Abstracts should be sent to Phil Benson at the address at the end
of this page by 1st December, 1995. Abstracts may be sent by e-
mail, but not by fax.

Schedule

Registration opens 1 October, 1995
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 December, 1995
Notification of acceptance: 1 February, 1996
conference: 22-24 June, 1996

Registration

Before 1 March, 1996: US$100
After 1 March, 1996: US$120

Organisers'' address

Phil Benson
Department of English
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Hong Kong

EGPHIL who-is-at POLYU.EDU.HK
Phone: (852) 2766-7535
Fax: (852) 2333-6569