{"id":88509,"date":"2025-03-24T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soziolinguistika.eus\/?post_type=mec-events&p=88509"},"modified":"2025-03-24T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:04:17","slug":"purity-in-minoritised-languages","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/soziolinguistika.eus\/es\/ekitaldiak\/purity-in-minoritised-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Purity in Minoritised Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An International Conference at the Europa-Universit\u00e4t Flensburg<\/strong><\/h4>\n

June 19-21, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organized by the\u00a0<\/span>Institute for Frisian Studies and Minority Research<\/a><\/em>, with the generous support of the\u00a0<\/span>Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(DFG, Bonn), the\u00a0<\/span>Centre for Smaller and Regional Languages<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(KURS, EUF)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and the\u00a0<\/span>Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(ICES, EUF)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>at the University of Flensburg, as well as the\u00a0<\/span>European Centre for Minority Issues<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(ECMI, Flensburg).<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Organising Committee:<\/strong>
\nNils Langer (Flensburg, Germany), Silvia dal Negro (Bolzano\/Bozen, Italy), Henrik Rosenkvist (G\u00f6teborg, Sweden), Jeff Williams (Texas Tech, USA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What the conference is about<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Plenary Speakers:<\/p>\n

Prof. Aneta Pavlenko<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(York): Language ideologies and mobilization of emotions in public discourse<\/p>\n

Dr James Hawkey<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(Bristol): Never to be touched, never to be changed\u00bb: Purism, variation and stancetaking among speakers of Esperanto.<\/p>\n

Prof. Julia Sallabank<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(SOAS London): ‘What are we saving?’ Experiences from Guernsey and Cornwall<\/p>\n

A key issue in the study of language policy and planning is to describe \u2013 theoretically and practically \u2013 the language to be promoted or protected. This often presupposes an essentialist perspective of language: languages are seen to exist as uniform or mono-dimensional entities.\u00a0 It is considered possible to determine what counts and does not count as part of a particular language, with sociolinguistic variation considered to be disturbing and language contact seen as potentially damaging. Notions of\u00a0<\/span>purity<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>are invoked implicitly or explicitly to distinguish between what is core to a language and what is peripheral. What appears uncontroversial in everyday life is highly problematic in the systemic and social study of linguistics. This conference seeks to delve deeper into the fundamental nature of this problem by focusing on minoritized and minority languages. We welcome papers on<\/p>\n