SELSA 2015 - 2015 Symposium on Education, Language and Sustainability in Asia

Join us in Hiroshima, Japan for the Third Symposium on Education, Language and Sustainability in Asia. The international symposium will begin with a welcome party followed by a two-day interdisciplinary platform for scholars, language educators, researchers, assistant language teachers, students, and practitioners. The theme of this year’s symposium is Language Perspectives on Holistic Sustainability.
What is the role of language in maintaining affective ties with local landscapes?
How do language revitalization movements relate to holistic sustainability?
What relationships exist between endangered languages and unsustainable use of natural resources? unsustainable social structures?
Language that encodes unique relationships with the land is an important part of many ethnographically-described food production systems. How does language change reflect changes in subsistence strategies?
How is language stability related to sustainable uses of natural resources? sustainable social structure?
Under the theme of Language Perspectives on Holistic Sustainability, SELSA 2015 will explore these and related questions, but in a way that considers sustainability beyond its ecological dimensions. This symposium considers the contributions that language can make to expanding the horizons of sustainability.
Full papers are welcome, but not required. Registered participants with an accepted abstract and/or refereed full paper will be published in the Proceedings (ISSN 2188-3386). Oral, poster and virtual presenters shall be included in the Proceedings.
Abstracts must be submitted through our online system. The symposium will focus on the following topic areas:
Tracks:
Analysis of Discourse and Text
Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Assessment and Evaluation
Biolinguistics
Cognitive Studies of Language
Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Educational Linguistics
EFL / ESL
Endangered Languages
Evolution of Language
Higher Education and Further Education
Historical Linguistics
ICT / CALL
Immersion and Bilingual Education
Language and Cognition
Language and Ideology
Language Education
Language Planning and Policy
Linguistic and Cultural Imperialism
Lexicology
Minority and Heritage Education
Professional Development
Philosophy of Language
Phonetics and Phonology
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Quantitative Linguistics
Reading, Writing and Literacy
Second Language Acquisition
Second and Foreign Language Pedagogy
Semantics
Semiotics
Sign Language
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Translation Studies
Special SELSA Topics:
Language Education for Adults
Language, Culture and Socialization
Language Rights
Language and Sustainability