language conflict conference announcing interdisciplinary conference languages collide sociocultural geopolitical implications language conflict language coexistence november 1315 1998 ohio state university columbus ohio rationale conference discuss issues relating language dialect hegemony within societies including limited language planning designation national official languages orthographic reform dialect language prestige language endangerment death minority language status gender racebased linguistic hegemony spread english international language science business etc reaction non english speaking peoples words seek discussion areas conflict disputes arise result competition different languages dialects within single language moreover interest social political historical linguistic dimensions issues broad geographic coverage global scope conference themes state imposed linguistic unity implications linguistic legacy colonialism international languages positive negative consequences contentious issues regarding national local languages race ethnic gender classbased dialects siege dominant linguistic paradigm diglossia orthographies competition conflicting romanizations languages featured plenary speakers joshua fishman stanford university victor friedman university chicago featured panelists robert ramsey university maryland college park yona sabar university california los angeles lachman kubchandani center communication studies pune india invited speakers may added next weeks call papers please send five copies onepage anonymous abstract 500 words second page allowable references data together 3 x 5 file card name title paper address plus summer address different phone number fax email address may 15 1998 office international studies information call attn language conference 614292 8770 300 oxley hall write 1712 neil avenue wolf 5 osu edu columbus ohio 432101219 anticipate publishing selected papers conference major university press