Friday April 17, 2015
At Tryater, Oostersingel 70 NL-8921 GB Leeuwarden
Price: € 25,00
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At Tryater, Oostersingel 70 NL-8921 GB Leeuwarden
Price: € 25,00
Register: Click here
On Friday 17 April 2015, the Fryske Akademy is organizing a one-day international conference that will be tackling the role of lexicography in standardisation and purification of lesser used languages.
The Frisian language is one of those. As an emancipating language in the Netherlands, Frisian is acquiring new functions and penetrating into new societal domains, or into domains that are traditionally reserved for the dominant Dutch language. Therefore, it needs new terminology. Dictionaries may play an important role in reinforcing a language, in language codification and language standardisation. At the same time, making dictionaries triggers critical issues in the lexicographic practice of lesser used languages such as Frisian.
For lexicographers, one of the most pregnant issues is the choice between a loan word and a purism, between an internationalism or a native word, or to put it sharply, between reality and artificiality. Lexicographers and lexicologists from Wales, Ireland, Belgium, Estonia, the Basque Country and the Netherlands will give lectures and discuss these issues at a one-day conference in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
Chair of the day: Willem Visser (Fryske Akademy/Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Language of communication: English
Language of communication: English
Program
- 10.00 Walk in with coffee/tea
- 10.25 Opening and welcome by Hanno Brand, managing-director of the Fryske Akademy
- 10.30 Andrew Hawke: Coping with an expanding vocabulary: the experience of Welsh University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
- 11.15 Chris Mulhall: To beg, To borrow or To steal: The necessity of borrowings in the Irish Language Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Republic of Ireland
- 12.00 Kristof De Weerdt (1), Isabelle Heyerick (1), Mieke Van Herreweghe (2), Myriam Vermeerbergen (1), Sam Verstraete (3): Lexicographic projects related to Flemish Sign Language: past, present and future. (1) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; (2) Ghent University; (3) Vlaams Gebarentaal Centrum
- 12.45 lunch
- 14.00 Maria Tuulik: The Situation of Estonian Language: Language Planning and The Dictionary of Standard Estonian Eesti Keele Instituut / Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn, Estonia
- 14.45 Miren Azkarate & David Lindemann: Basque Lexicography and Purism Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / University of the Basque Country, Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain
- 15.30 Coffee/Tea Break
- 15.45 Pieter Duijff, Frits van der Kuip & Hindrik Sijens: How puristic should a purism be? Fryske Akademy / Frisian Academy, Ljouwert / Leeuwarden, Netherlands
- 16.30 Closing and Reception
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