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SUMMARY:Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina) - The Language Conflict
Project: Analyzing politicized ethnolinguistic conflict in the 21st cent
ury
DESCRIPTION:The Language Conflict Project: Analyzing politicized ethnoli
nguistic conflict in the 21st century\n\nLanguage and ethnolinguistic id
entity play an important role in contemporary conflicts in a post-coloni
al and post-Cold War world. Decolonization\, the unraveling of the Sovie
t Union\, the post-Vietnam War withdrawal from Southeast Asia\, and the
weakening or dissolution of autocracies in North Africa and the Middle E
ast have seen the emergence\, re-emergence\, or creation of ethnolinguis
tic conflicts. I will first review interdisciplinary perspectives on eth
nic conflict\, and look at how resurgent\, re-created\, and newly create
d language conflicts are instrumentalized to advance political agendas.
Following this\, I will introduce the Language Conflict Project (LCP)\,
an interdisciplinary collaborative\, intended to advance our understandi
ng of language-related intrastate conflict. Our project features: (i) a
Language Conflict Typology\, designed to distill generalizations across
individual conflicts\, (ii) Linguistic Distance Measures (phonological\,
lexical\, syntactic\, orthographic)\, shown to play distinct roles in p
articular ethnolinguistic conflicts\, and (iii) a Linguistic Freedom Ind
ex\, applied to measure linguistic rights and accommodations with respec
t to educational policy\, laws\, media access\, economic freedom\, and w
ealth disparity. Finally\, I will preview our website\, through which th
e LCP reaches an audience that includes policy makers\, diplomats\, jour
nalists\, and leaders of international businesses and non-government org
anizations.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/stanley
-dubinsky-university-of-south-carolina/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Language Conflict Project: Analyzing politicized ethnolin
guistic conflict in the 21st century
Language and ethnolinguistic
identity play an important role in contemporary conflicts in a post-col
onial and post-Cold War world. Decolonization, the unraveling of the Sov
iet Union, the post-Vietnam War withdrawal from Southeast Asia, and the
weakening or dissolution of autocracies in North Africa and the Middle E
ast have seen the emergence, re-emergence, or creation of ethnolinguisti
c conflicts. I will first review interdisciplinary perspectives on ethni
c conflict, and look at how resurgent, re-created, and newly created lan
guage conflicts are instrumentalized to advance political agendas. Follo
wing this, I will introduce the Language Conflict Project (LCP), an inte
rdisciplinary collaborative, intended to advance our understanding of la
nguage-related intrastate conflict. Our project features: (i) a Language
Conflict Typology, designed to distill generalizations across individua
l conflicts, (ii) Linguistic Distance Measures (phonological, lexical, s
yntactic, orthographic), shown to play distinct roles in particular ethn
olinguistic conflicts, and (iii) a Linguistic Freedom Index, applied to
measure linguistic rights and accommodations with respect to educational
policy, laws, media access, economic freedom, and wealth disparity. Fin
ally, I will preview our website, through which the LCP reaches an audie
nce that includes policy makers, diplomats, journalists, and leaders of
international businesses and non-government organizations.
For mor
e details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/stanley-dubi
nsky-university-of-south-carolina/
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