The Dept. of Scandianvian Studies at Charles University in Praha organizes  meeting for students and teachers to learn about new trends and findings of Nordic sociolinguistics.

Place: Charles University, Praha

Faculty of Arts, room 104

Date: Friday October 14 / 2022

Program:

9:30 – 10:30 Internordic communication from a sociolinguistic perspective / Ulla Börestam (Uppsala University)

10:45 – 11:45 Sociolinguistic situation in Norway: written and spoken heterogeneity / Jorunn Simonsen Thingnes (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)

light lunch  (for all)

12:30-13:30 Sámi languages: from language shift to language revitalization /  Annika Pasanen (Sámi University of Applied Sciences)

13:45 – 14:45  Sociolinguistic situation in Denmark: Linguistic variation in a seemingly homogenous language society / Ditte Zachariassen (Aarhus University)

Participants: B.A. and M.A. students of Scandinavian studies from Charles University and University Masaryk in Brno

Language: English

Readings for students: 

lecture 1: Excuse me, but can you tell me where the Nordic House is located? Linguistic strategies in inter-Nordic communication in Iceland illustrated through participant observation

lecture 2: Sociolinguistic situation in Norway: written and spoken heterogeneity

lecture 3:  „This work is not for pessimists“ The revitalization of Inari Sámi Language (access via your library – FF UK)

lecture 4:   Danish urban contact dialects  (on-line access via your library – FF UK)

Additional reading:

lecture 3 The Ethnic Revival, Language and Education of the Sámi, an IndigenousPeople, in three Nordic Countries

lecture 3 Revitalization of Sámi Languages in Three Nordic Countries (access via your library – FF UK)

Organization:

• Vendula V. Hingarová  (vendula.hingarova@ff.cuni.cz)

Supported by:

Project nr: SNU-2022/10046