[Discussion] CFP: Human Language and Language Reform (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

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From: Brian Lennon <bul5@psu.edu>


Paper proposals are invited for the seminar "Human Language and Language
Reform," ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006.

Seminar Organizers:
Brian Lennon, Pennsylvania State University
Nergis Erturk, Columbia University

This seminar invites reflections on literature and language reform. More
specifically, we invite participants to consider how nineteenth and twentieth
century nationalist and internationalist language projects at once destroyed and
reconstituted--literally re-formed--imaginations of language as something
(uniquely) human: a double movement manifest in the para-literary and
masocritical activities of historical and contemporary avant-gardes, in
post-structuralist translation theory, and in current models of and for world
literature. Papers might address the consequences for "human language," and the
relevance for literature, of any of the following or related topics in language
politics and language ecology: alphabet reform; language purification;
orthographic standardization; official language policies; international
auxiliary and planned languages; "global" languages; monolingualism and
plurilingualism; machine writing and machine translation.

Deadline for submission of individual paper proposals: November 30, 2005. Please
submit proposals at the Web site for ACLA 2006:

http://www.princeton.edu/~acla06

Contact for questions about this seminar:

Brian Lennon
Assistant Professor
Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University
117 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802-6200 USA
Phone: (814) 865-6261
Fax: (814) 863-7285
Email: blennon_at_psu.edu



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