Sumários

Language and the nation(-state) 2

10 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Hugo Canelas Cardoso

- Language and State:

a) The development of the concept of State-Nation and Nation-State in Europe, from the Middle Ages to modernity: the examples of Germany and Austria-Hungary (conclusion).

- Language planning at the level of the State:

a) Status planning: official language, national language, regional language, forbidden language,...
b) Corpus planning for convergence or differentiation: Ausbau vs. Abstand languages; alphabet choice; codification of orthography and grammar (academies, intellectual elites); purism and nationalism; diglossia.
c) Acquisition planning: challenges to the educational system and mass media.

- Decolonisation and language policy:

a) The linguistic alignment of the new nations of the 20th and 21st century;
b) Different approaches to the issue of status planning in postcolonial states.

Language and the nation(-state) 1

8 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Hugo Canelas Cardoso

- Language and State:

a) National symbols: national anthems (monolingual and multilingual);
b) Linguistic conflict and self-determination (the case of Bangladesh);
c) The development of the concept of State-Nation and Nation-State in Europe, from the Middle Ages to modernity.

Linguistic variation 2

3 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Hugo Canelas Cardoso

- The standard norm (andoglossic and exoglossic): definition and processes of selection;

- Diglossia (with or without bilingualism) and diaglossia; case study: Switzerland.

- Typology of relations between standards and dialectal variants.

Linguistic variation 1

1 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Hugo Canelas Cardoso

- The dichotomy between language and dialect (cont.).

- Dimensions of linguistic variation:

a) Diachronic variation [Examples: the diachrony of English and Portuguese];
b) Diatopic variation [Examples: dialectal variation in the UK, in the USA, and in continental Portugal];
c) Diastratic variation [Examples: African American Vernacular English];
d) Diaphasic variation [Examples: levels of formal address in European Portuguese and English; the Japanese system of honorificity].

- The issue of mutual intelligibility.

Linguistic diversity 3

26 Setembro 2019, 12:00 • Hugo Canelas Cardoso

- Language families:

a) The Indo-European language family: discovery and reconstitution of the protolanguage;
b) Other major language families.

- Linguistic variation:

a) The dichotomy between language and dialect.