LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN A RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN CONTEXT: EXPLORING SOLUTIONS FOR MINORITY LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: MAY 31, 2013 December 16--18 at the University of Helsinki, Finland More information and call for papers: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/minor-eurus/conference2013/cfp/ Possible topics for talks include (but are not restricted to) the following: The development of the current situations of particular minority languages (e.g. language attrition and revitalization) - Comparison of Russia and the EU as multilingual cultural areas - Comparative analysis of the reasons behind the fate of different language communities - Theory and methodology of language revitalization; prerequisites for and obstacles to language revitalization - Modernization and urbanization and their effects on minority linguistic identities and communities - Minority activists vs. minority communities; the emergence of language ideologies of language activists and the effects of their work - Minorities within a minority and the emergence of new minority languages vis-Ã -vis multiple minority identities Invited speakers: Anneli Sarhimaa Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Fernand de Varennes