General
theoretical and methodological perspectives in the description of vernacular
varieties of French and in language planning involving these varieties, Standard
French, and EnglishIndiana
University is organizing a Colloquium on French in the United States to be held
on the Bloomington campus, April 22-24, 2003. The Colloquium will be followed by
the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXXIII (http://www.indiana.edu/~lsrl33).
The objectives of the Colloquium are to assess the situation of vernacular varieties of French still used by communities in the United States and to foster future research involving these varieties and the various factors that have determined and still affect their development and survival: pressures from Standard French and English, and contact with other French-related speech forms, such as French-lexifier creoles.
The Colloquium has a twin structure: (1) presentations from invited speakers from North America and Europe; (2) contributions selected on a competitive basis from those responding to a general call for papers. The areas to be covered in the Colloquium include:
General
theoretical and methodological perspectives in the description of vernacular
varieties of French and in language planning involving these varieties, Standard
French, and English
The
situation of French in Louisiana and Franco-America (New York State and New
England): sociolinguistic aspects, language loss, demarcation between speech
varieties, language maintenance and revitalization endeavors
French
isolates (Old Mines, St. Thomas Carénage, etc.)
Links
and relationships among North American varieties of French: Acadian,
Franco-Ontarian, Québécois.
French
and Creole contacts in the American Haitian diaspora
Links
between the North American diaspora French varieties and regional speech in
France
Deadline for
submission of proposals: November 1, 2002. For details, see Call
for Papers/ Appel de Communications
With support from:
Department of French and Italian Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund, Indiana University Bloomington
Arts and Humanities Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
Canadian Studies Conference Grant Program, Government of Canada
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Office of International Programs, Indiana University Bloomington
Dean of Faculties, Indiana University Bloomington
American Association of Teachers of French
Ministère des Relations Internationales du Gouvernement du Québec
For additional information contact:
The Creole Institute, Indiana University
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Ballantine Hall 604
Bloomington, IN 47405-7503
(812) 855-4988