The 12th ICML conference will take place in Tartu, Estonia on 28-30 May, 2009.
The conference will focus on the study of autochthonous minority communities and their language use, and the new perspectives that have emerged for the revitalisation of lesser-used languages due to modern technological development. The conference will provide an academic opportunity to discuss which barriers need to be overcome, myths to be broken, processes to be followed and changes to be undertaken to fully apply the new educational and communicational technologies to the development of minority communities and their languages..
Such questions will also be discussed:
- What are the consequences of standardisation?
- How are the issues of language ownership reflected in schooling?
- Do multiple identities and languages visualised into landscapes add to linguistic diversity?
- What is the role of primary socialisation in language maintenance?
- Does the way researchers or planners name languages decide their very existence?
- Have minority communities and their languages benefited from the World Wide Web?