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ELAP Workshop: Beliefs and Ideology

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Programme

The two-day workshop will consist of a mixture of plenary talks and case studies of situations where ideological issues have been raised in endangered languages research.

At the end of each day the participants will meet as a group to identify and discuss issues that have arisen throughout the workshop presentations and question times.

Parallel sessions will be running on the Saturday afternoon.

Friday 27th February (Birkbeck, room 152)

TimeTitleSpeaker
9:00am-9:30am Registration
9:30am-10:30am "Language beliefs and the management of endangered languages" Bernard Spolsky
(Bar-Ilan University)
10:30am-11:00am Coffee
11:00am-12:00pm "Shared language management goals, differing beliefs and unexpected outcomes"
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Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
(University of Limerick)
12:00pm-12:30pm "Maori language revitalisation: history, rhetoric and practice"
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Jeanette King
(University of Canterbury, NZ)
12:30pm-1:00pm "Perspectives on language transmission: A case study of the Wangkatha of Australia"
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Jessica Boynton
(University of Western Australia)
1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm "Considering popular language ideology in revitalizing the language of the Mayangna of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast"
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Jane Freeland
(University of Southampton)
3:00pm-3:30pm "Whose ideology, when and where: revitalization of Rama (Nicaragua) and Francoprovençal (France)? "
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Michel Bert & Colette Grinevald
(Université de Lyon)
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee
4:00pm-4:30pm "Economic ideologies of Gaelic language shift and revitalization, from Improvement to neoliberalism"
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Emily McEwan-Fujita
(University of Pittsburgh)
4:30pm-5:00pm Discussion

Saturday 28th February (SOAS, G50)

TimeTitleSpeaker
9:30am-10.30am "Conflicting ideologies and beliefs in the field"
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Lenore Grenoble
(University of Chicago)
10:30am-11.00am "Linguistic social work' and the 'hopeless cause': the role of linguists in 'dealing with' endangered languages "
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Michael Walsh
(University of Sydney)
11:00am-11:30am Coffee
11:30am-12:00pm "Power and Protocols:Conducting language research in US indigenous communities."
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Susan Penfield
(University of Arizona)
12:00pm-12:30pm "Fluidity in language beliefs: The beliefs of the Kormakiti Maronite Arabic speakers of Cyprus towards their language"
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Chryso Hadjidemetriou
(University of Essex)
12:30pm-1:00pm "At the margin - African endangered languages in the context of global endangerment discourses"
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Friederike Lüpke
(ELAP, SOAS)
1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch
Parallel sessions
Time G50 G52
2:00pm-2:30pm "The shark, the crocodile and the man-ship: Who is shaping language ideologies in a multilingual insular province?"
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Radu Voica
(ELAP, SOAS)

"Constructing shared thoughts in a small linguistic endangered area - The case of Ladin women in the Dolomites, Italy"
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Olimpia Rasom
(University of Bolzano/Bozen)

2:30pm-3:00pm "UNESCO's Endangered Languages Programme: whose beliefs, what ideologies?"
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Anahit Minasyan
(UNESCO's Endangered Languages Programme)

3:00pm-3:30pm "The situation of Kven language"
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Anna-Kaisa Räisänen
(ELAP, SOAS)

"Ideology of extinction or belief in resurrection?: A Berber guide to doctrinal hazards and dogmatic principles in language policy, language extinction and linguistic revitalisation"
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Salem Mezhoud
(Foundation for Endangered Languages)

3:30pm-4:00pm Discussion