31.3486, Confs: Socioling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3486. Thu Nov 12 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3486, Confs: Socioling/Online

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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:28:56
From: Gertrud Reershemius [g.k.reershemius at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Minority Languages in the Digital Age

Minority Languages in the Digital Age 

Date: 11-Dec-2020 - 12-Dec-2020 
Location: Greifswald/Online event, Germany 
Contact: Gertrud Reershemius 
Contact Email: g.k.reershemius at aston.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.wiko-greifswald.de/anmeldung 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Online conference “Minority Languages in the Digital Age” (11.-12.12.2020)

The conference will focus on the impact of digital media on speakers of
smaller languages, drawing on case studies from Faroese, Frisian, Gaelic, Low
German, Sorbian and Welsh. In addition to the discussion of the opportunities
and challenges of digital communication, we will debate how it can be
successfully applied for the learning and teaching of smaller and potentially
endangered languages. Information & Registration:
www.wiko-greifswald.de/anmeldung  (Please register by 7 December 2020)

Program Information: 

Friday, December 11, 2020

9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Opening and Welcome
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Minority Languages, Digital Technology and Emerging
Hierarchies of Knowledge (Helen Kelly-Holmes, Limerick)
10.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Break
10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. MoCoDa2: a research and teaching corpus on language
and interaction in mobile messaging communication (Evelyn Ziegler,
Duisburg-Essen)
11.15 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Regional Language Maintenance and the Importance of
Digital Domains (Marco Tamburelli, Bangor)
11.45 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Break
12.45 p.m. - 1.15 p.m. North Frisian communication in digital media (Hauke
Heyen, Flensburg)
1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Levels of language standardization and scenarios for
digitalization (in Fryslân and Groningen) (Goffe Jensma, Groningen)
1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Frisian on Social Media: Language Usage Patterns among
Frisian-Dutch Bilingual Teenagers (Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber, Maastricht)
2.15 p.m. - 2.45 p.m. Break
2.45 p.m. - 3.15 p.m. Mobile Applications in Minority Languages: Reflections
from Wales (Daniel Cunliffe, Treforest)
3.15 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. Language, Education and Community in the Digital Age: A
Welsh Case Study (Cynog Prys & Rhian Hodges, Bangor)
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Basic Language Technologies - Infrastructure for
Minority Languages (Delyth Prys, Bangor)
4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. break
4.45 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. Webinars in Extracurricular Low German Teaching (Birte
Arendt & Ulrike Stern, Greifswald)
5.15 p.m. - 5.45 p.m. New and Old Speakers of Low German on Facebook (Gertrud
Reershemius, Birmingham)
6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Public evening lecture
Minority languages and that Internet: a blessing and a curse at the same
time
Dr. Mandana Seyfeddinipur (University of London)
Moderation: Privatdozentin Dr. Birte Arendt (Greifswald)

Saturday, December 12, 2020

8.45 a.m. - 9.00 a.m. Opening
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. ''Welcome to Bavaria'' - a phrase book app for Bavarian
(Hanna Fischer and Jeffrey Pheiff, both)
9.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. Sorbian mediation - digitally supported by SobLex (
Hauke Bartels, Cottbus)
10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. A Repository of Sámi Learning Materials (Lasse
Wigelius, Kautokeino)
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Break
11.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Faroese in focus: digital insights into the smallest
North Germanic language community (Laura Zieseler, Greifswald)
11.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. Which (mis) perceptions Matter in Minority Language
Media Research? Reflections on / from an Inquiry of Digital Language Practices
among Sorbian Adolescents (Sarah McMonagle, Hamburg)
12.00 p.m. - 12.30 p.m. Allochthonous minority languages in digital
communication: A case study on the functions of Slavic languages of origin
in German-based social networks (Bernhard Brehmer, Konstanz)
12.30 p.m. - 1.00 p.m. Lexical creativity and new speaker stereotypes among
users of Breton on Facebook (Merryn Davies -Deacon, Belfast)
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Closing Discussion
2:00 p.m. Farewell

The international and interdisciplinary conference is funded by the German
Research Foundation and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
and organized and carried out in cooperation with the University of Aston.

Registration is available here:
https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/index.php?id=163517

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