ISLOJ is a biennial event whose goal is the advancement of scholarship on the linguistic study of the (non-Malay) languages of Java and its environs, encompassing Javanese, Madurese, Sundanese, Sasak, Balinese, Indonesian sign-language, etc.
Papers presented at ISLOJ are concerned with all varieties of these languages, including standard(ized), non-standard(ized), dialectal, and contact varieties.
ISLOJ10 will be held on June 5-6,2025 and hosted by Atma Jaya Catholic University in Jakarta, Indonesia. AFLA32 will be held immediately before on June 3-5, 2025.
In addition to the main conference, as part of the joint conferences AFLA 32 and ISLOJ 10 will include an integrated special session on register, which broadly encompasses aspects of the register knowledge of the speakers of a language (such as which alternatives are available) and which situational parameters are relevant (properties of the surroundings, properties of the addressee, purpose of the interaction etc.). This special session aims to better understand the role of register across languages that explains why certain grammatical variants differ by register, identifying cross-linguistically valid principles of register, and how might these be suitably modelled, taking Austronesian languages in particular, of which several are known to have grammaticalized speech registers or speech levels. Given that this is a joint special session, we invite papers on any Austronesian languages.
For this special session, we especially invite papers along two research tracks. The first track is how overt vs. implicit marking of grammatical features are distributed across registers, and more generally, how the grammatical properties of a language interacts with possibilities of register variation. This could include, for instance, different types of marking via reduplication, forms of address and politeness, or tense-aspect-mood marking, among others. The second track concerns modeling register in multilingual contact situations, with regard to the emergence of contact-induced grammatical variants and register-related language-mixing. This special session aims to foster initial research within and across Austronesian languages, to relate to current research on register across other languages and across several disciplines (see, for further information, the Collaborative Research Centre 1412 on ‘Register’) < https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/>
Anonymous one-page abstracts (data and references may be on a second page) should be submitted as a pdf to the following address:
isloj.linguistics AT gmail.com
Please indicate your name, affiliation, and title of abstract in the body of the email. Please also indicate if you would like to participate in the special session on Register (see above).
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 January 2025
Notification: March 1, 2025
Previous ISLOJs
ISLOJ 9, May 20, 2023, Honolulu, HI, USA
ISLOJ 8 May 20-22, 2021, Virtually
ISLOJ 7 July 6-7, 2019, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia
ISLOJ 6 May 18-19, 2017, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
ISLOJ 5 June 6-7, 2015, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
ISLOJ 4 June 6-7, 2013, Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia
ISLOJ 3 June 23-24, 2011, Malang, East Java, Indonesia
ISLOJ 2 June 4-5, 2009, Senggigi, Lombok, Indonesia
ISLOJ 15-16 August 2007, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
The ISLOJ Steering Committee
Thomas Conners
Jozina Vander Klok, Humboldt University of Berlin|
Nurenzia Yannuar, Universtas Negri Malang
Emerita Steering Members
Bill Davies, University of Iowa
Zane Goebel, La Trobe University
Effendi Kadarisman, Universitas Negri Malang
Yacinta Kurniasih, Monash University
Institutions Supporting ISLOJ
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig