Breytingar, viðhorf og veruleiki: Félagsmálvísindalegar rannsóknir á íslensku málsamfélagi

Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands og Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum efna til ráðstefnunnar Changes, beliefs, practices: Current research into the contemporary sociolinguistic situation in Iceland í fyrirlestrasal Eddu 18. og 19. september kl. 9.30–17.00. Fluttir verða tuttugu fyrirlestrar í fimm málstofum: Ideologies & metalinguistic discourses; Linguistic minorities; Lifespan changes, attitudes & regional pronunciation; English in Iceland; Norms & cultural bias. Aðgangur að ráðstefnunni er ókeypis og er hún öllum opin án skráningar. Hún fer fram á ensku. Ráðstefnustjórn skipa Ari Páll Kristinsson, Iris Nowenstein og Stefanie Bade. Ráðstefnan er haldin með stuðningi Árnastofnunar og Málvísindastofnunar Háskóla Íslands.

Dagskrá 18. september

• 9.30 Opening
• 9.45 Keynote   —  Leigh Oakes, professor at Queen Mary University í London: Beyond the taboo: reevaluating normativity in language policy and planning research
  Abstract: The critical and ethnographic turns that have come to dominate mainstream language policy and planning (LPP) research in recent decades have resulted in a reluctance to engage positively with the inevitably normative concerns of language policymakers. This talk calls for a more productive re-engagement with such concerns, in particular through a reevaluation of the notion of normativity in LPP research. After briefly defining what is meant by normativity, the talk identifies four broad types of normative intervention observed in LPP practice. It then examines how the readiness of LPP researchers in the pioneer years to engage positively with such interventions has been largely lost due to advances in the field. The talk argues nonetheless that normativity is not only inevitable in language matters, but can also be justified in many instances of LPP practice. To evaluate which normative LPP interventions can be deemed acceptable and which should not, mainstream LPP research can benefit from the input of normative political theory. In particular, the emergent interdisciplinary field of ‘normative language policy’, which seeks to bring together research in normative political theory and applied/sociolinguistics, can help to bridge the arguably growing gap between LPP practice and research.
• 10.45 Coffee break
• 11.00  Ideologies & metalinguistic discourses  
  Iris Nowenstein & Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir: Perceived threats to the future of Icelandic and the importance of language acquisition research 
  Stefanie Bade: Why are accents perceived as (un)pleasant and (in)correct? Folk evaluations of L2 accent in Icelandic
• 12.00 Lunch break
• 13.30 Ideologies & metalinguistic discourses ctd.
  Ari Páll Kristinsson & Kristján Árnason: Shifting language-political discourses in Iceland in late modernity
  Ingunn Hreinberg Indriðadóttir: Prescriptivist discourse and dangerous speech
• 14.30 Coffee break
• 15.00 Linguistic minorities      
  Rannveig Sverrisdóttir: Icelandic Sign Language: Status, threats and hopes.
  Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir & Anna Maria Wojtyńska: Language politics and immigrants' inclusion in local governance.
  Lara Hoffmann: Of 'Creating Mountains' and 'Known Paths': Adult immigrants' engagement with the language situation in Iceland
  Renata Emilsson Peskova: Plurilingual children in Icelandic language landscape and stakeholders’ values about languages.
• 17.00 Closing of day one   

 Dagskrá 19. september

• 9.30 Lifespan changes, attitudes & regional pronunciation. 
  Stefanie Bade & Eva Hrund Sigurjónsdóttir: Icelandic regional pronunciation and linguistic change in real time: latest results from the RePARC project
  Stefanie Bade & Ása Bergný Tómasdóttir: Icelandic regional pronunciation, attitudes and folk beliefs: latest results from the RePARC project
• 10.30 Coffee break
• 10.45 Lifespan changes, attitudes & regional pronunciation ctd.
  Anton Karl Ingason & Lilja Björk Stefánsdóttir:  EILisCh - A big project on lifespan change
  Lilja Björk Stefánsdóttir & Anton Karl Ingason: Individual lifespan change in the Icelandic Parliament
• 11.45  Lunch break
• 13.00 English in Iceland  
  Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir:   The Status of English in Iceland:  Findings from Two Projects
  Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir & Iris Nowenstein: Learning the majority language of a small speech community in the age of global English
• 14.00 Norms & cultural bias
  Ari Páll Kristinsson: On the description-prescription continuum   
  Einar Freyr Sigurðsson & Jóhannes B. Sigtryggsson: The Icelandic Gigaword Corpus and the Icelandic linguistic standard
• 15.00 Coffee break
• 15.30 Norms & cultural bias ctd.
  Heimir Freyr Viðarsson: Intervention and the interface principle: Norms and usage in 21st-century student essays
  Steinunn Rut Friðriksdóttir: Detecting prejudice in large language models
• 16.30 Closing session
  Kristján Árnason: Language death: three scenarios for Icelandic 
• 17.00 Closing of the conference