Call for Papers
We invite contributions addressing the following topics:
- The colonial context and its impact on linguistic work in contrast to Missionary
Linguistics without the consideration of the colonial context, if such situations
exist.
- Missionary Linguistic analysis and political and social consequences for the languages
described
- Studies on the transcultural manifestations in linguistic description
- Implicit and/ or explicit contrastive perspectives on the missionary linguistic
studies and their theoretical implications
- New (explicit or implicit) constructions for linguistic theory (grammatical and
semantic) in the descriptions or meta-linguistic observations by missionaries or
in related fields.
- Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics etc.
As in previous conferences of this series, other contributions on missionary linguistics
are welcome as well.
The conference languages will be English, Spanish, and German
Participants please send the title of their intended presentation along with their
contact data (full name, institution, mail address, title) and an abstract indicating
- aim of the study
- relevance
- contextualization of the paper within linguistic or other domains
- methods
- data, documents
- intended results
Abstracts (not more than 1 page) should be sent to
kzimmermann@uni-bremen.de ; hispan@uni-bremen.de
; O.J.Zwartjes@uva.nl ;
schrader-kniffki@gmx.de by 1 of October 2011
The abstracts will be evaluated and admission will be granted depending on criteria such as innovative
character, quality, and relation to the main topic of the conference.