The Sociolinguistics of ‘Small’ Languages: Policies, Practices and Interests
Friday, 5 May (Mappin Hall)
| 9.00 | Registration and orientation |
| 9.15-9.30 |
Words of welcome: Professor Thomas Baldwin (Head of the School of Languages and Cultures) Introduction: Kristine Horner and James Hawkey |
| 9.30-10.30 |
(Moderator: Bethan Davies) James Hawkey (University of Bristol) Methodological concerns when working with small languages: The case of Andorra Kristine Horner (University of Sheffield) and Sarah Muller (Zenter fir d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch) Linguistic authority, reflexivity and the ‘normalisation’ of language: The case of Luxembourg |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11.00-12.00 |
(Moderator: James Hawkey) Andrew Bradley (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Avel·lí Flors Mas (Universitat de Barcelona) Language ideologies and linguistic authority beyond Catalonia: The peripheral case of Valencia Nicola Bermingham (University of Liverpool) Small languages in European contexts: The case of Galicia |
| 12.00-1.30 | Lunch |
| 1.30-3.00 |
(Moderator: Kristine Horner) Gro-Renée Rambø and Elin Gunleifsen (Universitetet i Agder) “Small” languages competing with even “smaller” languages: The case of Finnmark Michael Hornsby (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań) Dealing with attitudes of purism in minority language research settings: The case of Breton Helen Kelly-Holmes (University of Limerick) When small languages go big: The case of Irish |
| 3.00-3.30 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 3.30-4.00 |
Roundtable Discussion with Jessica Bradley (University of Sheffield) and Jean-Jacques Weber (University of Luxembourg) |
| 4.00-4.30 | Moving forward and close of colloquium |