Program
12th International Conference on Minority Languages
28-30 May 2009, University of Tartu, Estonia
Program
Wednesday (27 May 2009)
| 16:00-19:00 | Registration (University of Tartu, Main Building, Ülikooli 18) |
| 19:00-21:00 | Opening reception (Town Hall, Town Hall Square) |
Thursday (28 May 2009)
| 8:30-9:30 | Registration (University of Tartu, Main Building, Ülikooli 18) | |||||
| 9:30-10:00 | Opening of the conference (University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | Plenary talk: Richard Villems, Genes and languages (University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18) | |||||
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| Paper sessions and colloquia | |||||
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| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | CQ1: Language contact and change in multiply and multimodally bilingual minority situations |
| 11:00-11:30 | Sonia Parayre, Achievements and challenges of protecting minority languages in Europe: the impact of the language Charter | Josu Amezaga, Edorta Arana, Patxi Azpillaga and Bea Narbaiza, Television and language maintenance and revitalisation | Brian Ó Raghallaigh and Michal Boleslav Měchura, User-friendliness: the key to promoting a minority language on the Internet | Felix Etxeberria and Durk Gorter, Beyond the models: from divergence to convergence in minority language education? | Salih Akin, How standardising a minority language? The case of Kurdish | Östen Dahl, Contact induced changes in tense and aspect systems |
| 11:30-12:00 | Alessia Vacca, A comparative study between the Council of Europe Treaties and the European Union framework in the legal protection of minority languages in the European Union | Douglas Chalmers, Scottish Gaelic broadcasting - towards the creation of a Gaelic world view and its impact on language regeneration | Daniel Cunliffe and Courtenay Honeycutt, Accommodation, negotiation, confrontation? Welsh - English language contact in Facebook groups | Jasone Cenoz, Juan Etxeberria and Xabier Etxague, Learning through the minority and the acquisition of additional languages language | Khalid Ansar, An evaluation of Amazigh language standardisation and normalisation in Morocco | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, New legal framework for the regional and minority languages in Poland | Stephanie Patricia Hughes, Autochthonous minority communities and their language use: The representation of the Franconian Minority Language (North-East France) in the French Media and on the Internet | Julian Maia Larretxea, Kepa Larrea Muxika, Maria Jesus Torrealday Zabala, The Internet: a support for preserving and fostering the quality of the Basque language | Annaliina Gynne, Jarmo Lainio and Marja-Terttu Tryggvason, The Role and Importance of Bilingual Minority Schools' Pupils for Inter-Nordic and Bilateral Language Communication in a Majority Context | Alejandro Fernández-Cernuda Díaz, Neology as an Ally for Language Planning: a Case-study on Asturian | Beata Wagner-Nagy and Anne Tamm, The caritive and abessive negation in the changing system of negation in Nganasan |
| 12:30-13:00 | István Csernicskó, The linguistic aspects of the educational policy: the case of Ukraine |
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| Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein and Melinda Ann Dooly, EPASI Project findings: an overall perspective of educational disadvantages affecting linguistic minorities and "good practices" to ameliorate these inequalities | Devan Jagodic and Martina Flego, Between Language Maintenance and Language Shift: the Slovene Minority in Italy Today and Tomorrow | Csilla Bartha, The situation of the Deaf and national minorities in Hungary |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (University Café, Ülikooli 20) | |||||
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| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | CQ1: Language contact and change in multiply and multimodally bilingual minority situations |
| 14:00-14:30 | Suren Zolyan, The language situation in Armenia and linguistic policy of RA | Justyna Walkowiak, Minority policy regarding personal names - an overview | Hanne Skaaden, Interpreter training in cyber space | Silvia Bati, Foreign Language Learning and Education in Minority Circumstances. Problems and possible solutions | Larisa Shirobokova, Role of Sociolinguistic in progress and revitalization of Minority Finno-Ugric Languages | Helle Metslang, Changes in Finnish and Estonian tense and aspect |
| 14:30-15:00 | Sara Brezigar, The Protection of the Italian Minority in Slovenia: Once as "Rolls Royce" among minority protection models, today ... what? | Magdalena Ziółkowska, Anthroponymy as the element identifying national minority. Characteristics of Polish Old Believers' names | Jean-Michel Eloy, Social meaning of a Picard language textual database | Rhian Siân Hodges, Towards the Light/ Tua'r Goleuni: Welsh Medium Education for the non-Welsh speaking in south Wales: A Parent's Choice | Heinike Heinsoo, Margit Kuusk, Revitalisation, neo-renaissance - who cares? The rise and fall of the Votic language | Boglarka Janurik, Age-related differences in the code-switching behavior of Erzya-Russian bilinguals |
| 15:00-15:30 | Sanna-Riikka Knuuttila, Children - the future of Karelian language? A case study in a Karelian village | Sikder Monoare Murshed and Monjur Rashid, Minority Language situation of Bangladesh |
| Csilla Bartha, Dialect and/or language shift? - Comparative analysis of language attitudes within six linguistic minorities in Hungary | Michał Głuszkowski, Vershina - a Polish village in Siberia. Factors influencing language maintenance | Anna Komarova, Development of Bilingual Education of the Deaf in Post-Soviet Countries |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |||||
| 16:00-16:30 | Sanita Lazdiņa, Ilga Šuplinska, Gabriele Iannàccaro and Vittorio Dell'Aquila, Languages, religions and ethnic dynamics in Latgale | Marina Solnyshkina and Ilvira Musina, The Tatar language in Tatarstan | Susanna Pertot, Parenting in a minority language as subject to negotiation across contexts: Slovenian parents in Italy between past and future | Anna Fenyvesi, Language attitudes in a minority context: Minority Hungarian students' attitudes to their minority language, the state language, and English as a foreign language | Josep Soler Carbonell, Local and Global Languages in Different Official Status. A comparative approach of two study cases: Catalonia and Estonia | Donna Lewin, Variation in the use of mouthing in British Sign Language - a comparison of four bilingual groups |
| 16:30-17:00 | Sanita Lazdiņa and Ilga Šuplinska, Languages in the eastern part of Latvia (Latgale): Data and results | Maria Manova, The multioptional identity of the Pomaks in Greece reflected in the mechanisms for lexical modernization of their idioms | Márta Csire and Johanna Laakso, Teaching the heritage language as a foreign language: on the questions of bilingualism and minority language teaching in Austria | Anna Borbély, Languages and language varieties: comparative research on the linguistic attitudes in bilingual minority communities in Hungary | Konstantin Zamyatin, Legal framework for official languages in Russia | Johanna Mesch, Variations in tactile signing - the case of one-handed signing |
| 17:00-18:00 | Plenary talk: Uldis Ozolins, From minority language rights to multilingual networks: the changing shape of language policy (University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18) | |||||
| 19:00-21:00 | Reception (Ministry of Education and Research, Main Hall, Munga 18) | |||||
Friday (29 May 2009)
| 9:00-10:00 | Plenary talk: Sarah Thomason, What is lost when a language is standardised? (University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18) | |||||
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| Paper sessions, colloquia and posters | |||||
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| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | CQ2: Sámi language revitalization, media and identity | CQ3: Scrutinizing Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Some new data and approaches | CQ4: Symposium on Multilingual Cities
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| 10:00-10:30 | Ewa Chylinski, Models of minority language enhancement in Europe - a universal model? | Hugh O'Donnell, Language and Landscape: Sublimity or Battleground? | J. Normann Jørgensen, Notions of language and norms of language use - related to language practices among late modern urban youth belonging to linguistic minorities | Jon Todal, New research on Sámi sociolinguistics
| Kutlay Yagmur, To what extent ethnolinguistic vitality theory account for the actual vitality of ethnic groups: A critical evaluation. | Ina Druviete, Multilingual Cities in Latvia |
| 10:30-11:00 | Jeroen Darquennes and Gabriele Iannàccaro, The ECRML: an adequate contemporary language planning tool? | Heiko F. Marten, Linguistic Marketing for the Benefit of Regional and Minority Languages | Raquel Casesnoves Ferrer, The effect of linguistic attitudes in language maintenance: the case of Catalan in Valencia | Elisabeth Scheller, New media, technology and teaching methods for Kildin Sámi | Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis, An Investigation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Ethnocultural Identity in the Greek-Orthodox Community of Istanbul | Kjell Herberts, Language usage in different domains: focus on the capital region of Helsinki |
| 11:00-11:30 | Cor van der Meer, New Technologies and developing a research programme | Michael Hornsby and Dick Vigers, Minority semiotic landscapes: An ideological minefield? | Siebren Dyk, The emergence of a palatal glide in Frisian raising diphtongs as a result of language shift | Torkel Rasmussen, Media and language choice among young Sámi people | Tom Moring, Catharina Lojander-Visapää, Andrea Nordqvist, Laszlo Vincze, Comparative methods in the study of media, media use and ethnolinguistic vitality in bilingual communities | Ülle and Mart Rannut, Home Languages in Tallinn |
| 11:30-12:00 | Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Human Language Technologies: The Way to Hasten Language Promotion and Revitalization in Gabon | Douglas Chalmers and Mike Danson, The Economic Impact of Gaelic Arts and Culture within Glasgow: Minority Languages and Post-Industrial Cities | Ulriikka Puura, Searching for aspectuality in Finnic: how to interpret morphosyntactic change in Vepsian? | Åse Mette Johansen, Multiple identities and linguistic diversity in a coastal Sámi-Norwegian community | Ekaterina Bulatova, Ekaterina Protassova, Udmurt ethnolinguistic vitality: qualitative data on ethnicity | Delaney Michael Skerrett, Language choice in Estonian cities |
| 12:00-12:30 | Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, How have new technological capabilities altered the way minority languages function (based on the example of the Kashubian language)? | Conchúr Ó Giollagáin, Bilingualism and Its Discontents: The Sociolinguistic Typology of Problematic Bilingualism in a Minoritised Language Community | Dieter W. Halwachs, Variation in codification | Inger Johansen, Revitalisation of Southern Sámi: Big changes in a small language community | Martin Ehala, Anastassia Zabrodskaja, The impact of interethnic discordance on subjective vitality perceptions: Russian speaking community in Estonia | Elvira Küün, Home Languages in Kohtla-Järve |
| 12:30-13:00 | John Bronkhorst, Susanne Müller-Using and Annie van der Beek, My Own Dictionary |
| Barbara Schrammel and Astrid Rader, Variation in documentation: the case of Romani |
| Itesh Sachdev, Denise Arnold, Juan De Dios Yapita, Aymara Vitality in Bolivia: some empirical data on identity and language | Meilute Ramoniene, Home Languages in Vilnius |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (University Café, Ülikooli 20) | |||||
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| Session 1 | Session 2 | CQ5: Codeswitching and contact-induced change: empirical and theoretical perspectives | CQ6: Linguistic Landscapes from a Minority Language Perspective
| CQ1: Language contact and change in multiply and multimodally bilingual minority situations |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Helena Sulkala, Minority language and education in the border region | Alfred F. Majewicz,Saving moribund and dead languages. A neglected issue in minority language research and policies | Emel Türker & Ad Backus, Synchronic use of Turkish yapmak and the diachronic changes it leads to | 14:00-14:10 Introduction | Tatiana Davidenko, Sign Language Diversity in Post-Soviet Countries |
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| 14:10-14:30 Heiko F. Marten, "Latgalian is not a Language". LL in Eastern Latvia and how Centralist Language Attitudes are Reflected in them | ||||||
| 14:30-15:00 | Alessia Vacca, Education in the mother tongue: a comparative study from a legal perspective between Cataluña and Australia
| Svetlana Edygarova, French-Udmurt conversational guide as an example of popularization of minority language in Russia | Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Code-switching as a mechanism of structural contact-induced language changes in Estonia's Russian | 14:30-14:50 Jeroen Darquennes and Luk van Mensel, All is quiet on the eastern front? Language Contact and Language Conflict in the Linguistic Landscape of three official German-speaking municipalities in Belgium | Arnfinn M. Vonen, Influence from Norwegian on the pronoun system of Norwegian Sign Language |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Viktória Ferenc, Hungarian higher education in Ukraine: arguments for and against | Vittorio Dell'Aquila and Gabriele Iannàccaro, The Fate of a "Non-Spoken" Language: French in Aosta Valley (Italy) as a Result of a New Sociolinguistic Survey | Hanne Skaaden, Selective combinational copies and the copying of frequency patterns | 14:50-15:10 Guy Puzey, Linguistic Landscapes: Reflecting and Influencing the Politics of Language | Tatiana Agranat, The Syntax of Caritive Participles in Balto-Finnic Languages |
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| 15:10-15:30 Hanni Salo, Sari Pietikäinen and Sirkka Laihiala-Kankainen, Using Linguistic Landscape to Examine the Visibility of Sami Languages in the North Calotte | ||||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Posters and coffee break | |||||
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| Ad Backus, Seza Doğruöz & Margreet Dorleijn, Loan translation and grammatical change: a continuum | 16:00-16:20 Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Linguistic Landscapes in Post-Soviet Estonia | Dame Ndao, Linguistic attitudes of Pepels in Dakar |
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| 16:20-17:00 Final discussion | Inge Zwitserlood, The construction and use of sign language corpora; the messier the better?! |
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| 17:00-18:00 | Plenary talk: Anna Verschik, Yiddish in the Baltic region: convergence and contact-induced language change (University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18) | |||||
| 19:00-21:00 | Dinner with concert programme (Botanical Garden, Lai 38) | |||||
Saturday (30 May 2009)
| 9:00 | Departure to Võru in South-East Estonia |
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| Session in Community Centre Kannel (small hall) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Addresses |
| 10:30-11:00 | Kara D. Brown, Teachers as Language-Policy Actors: Contending with the Erasure of Lesser-Used Languages in School |
| 11:00-11:30 | Sulev Iva, Standardization of the Võro language |
| 11:30-12:00 | Evar Saar, How to restore the Võro place names |
| 12:00-13:15 | Lunch at Kannel |
| 13:15-13:45 | Visit to Võro Institute |
| 13:45-16:45 | Guided tour in Southeastern Estonia (Seto Talumuuseum in Värska) |
| 16:45 | Departure to Tartu |
| 18:00 | Arrival in Tartu |
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| 9:00 | Departure to Old-Believers' villages in Kolkja and Varnja near Lake Peipsi |
| 10:00-11:30 | Varnja museum (meeting with the Old-Believers', Pavel Varunin, Director of the Society of Old Believers' Culture and Development) |
| 11:30-12:45 | Varnja chapel |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch in Kolkja |
| 14:30-16:30 | Guided tour in Eastern Estonia (Kallaste, Kodavere, Raja village, Mustvee) |
| 16:45 | Departure to Tartu |
| 18:00 | Arrival in Tartu |
| 19:00-21:00 | Closing reception in Tartu (Museum of Tartu University History, Dome hill, Dome church, Lossi 25) |
