[Gabriel Rei-Doval]

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<div class=””><b class=””><i class=””><span class=””>Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician</span></i></b><span class=””><b class=””> (</b>Guaranteed Session, MLA Convention, Chicago, 3-6 January, 2019)</span></div>
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<div class=””><span class=””>On the 35th Anniversary of the Galician Language Bill <i class=””>Lei de </i></span><span class=””><i class=””>normalización</i></span><i class=””> lingüística</i><span class=””> (1983), it is time for Galician and international scholars to re-assess the process of language planning undertaken in contemporary Galicia. This assessment will also help evaluate and answer</span><span class=””> Fishman’s </span><span class=””>question</span><span class=””> </span><span class=””>(1991, 2001), apud Rubin & Jernudd 1971, on if and how minority languages can be revitalized when in contact with languages of wider communication.</span></div>
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<div class=””>At the Modern Language Association’s 2019 convention in Chicago (January 3-6, 2019), the Galician Language, Literature and Culture Forum would like to celebrate and debate on language revitalization and <i class=””>normalización</i> with a panel addressing the question: Can language shift be reversed? We invite proposals for 15- to 20-minute talks on topics including but not limited to:</div>
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<li class=””>How the social situation of Galician fits into Fishman’s 1991 Reversing Language Shift paradigm (RSL);
<li class=””>What contemporary findings on language revitalization can help the Galician language planning process;
<li class=””>How can the Galician perspective dialogue with different language revitalization models;
<li class=””><span class=””>Interactions between top-down and bottom-up approaches to the Galician language “normalization”<i class=””> process.</i></span>

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<div class=””><span class=””>Please submit <b class=””>titles,</b> </span><b class=””>250-word abstracts (in English)</b><span class=””><b class=””> and a brief bio</b> to Gabriel Rei-Doval (</span>reidoval@uwm.edu<span class=””>) by </span><b class=””>15 March 2018</b><span class=””>.</span></div>
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