Curated Theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: practical examples of sustainable practices in linguistics
This page contains information on sustainable practices in linguistics. Please note that this a recommendation and not all of them can be applied at the very same time, the applicability of the mentioned examples varies from a certain case to another.
Sustainability[edit | edit source]
The following contain information on what sustainability actually is. To be able to tell which the most suitable sustainability practices for each action would be, comes from the thorough understanding what sustainability is.
Sustainability (general)
Linguistics and sustainability
Sustainable Development Goal 4 (inclusive and equitable quality education)
Sustainable Development Goal 10 (reducing inequalities)
Sustainable practices in linguistics[edit | edit source]
Concrete examples of sustainable practices in linguistics with suggested practices for linguistics to maintain the sustainability concept throughout their work.
Problems associated with language endangerment
Examples of sustainability[edit | edit source]
Concrete examples of sustainability in language revitalization projects.
Challenges[edit | edit source]
A list of problems and challenges associated with the linguistic fieldwork concerning endangered languages. However, this category is not onnly about the problems concerning the actual fieldwork, but the definition of what sustainability means is in itself also somewhat tricky.
Strong and weak sustainability (as retrieved from Morand ́ın-Ahuerma et al. 2019)
Problems associated with language endangerment
Ecolinguistics...but how does this relate to sustainable linguistics?[edit | edit source]
This field gives us anwers to how to apply ‘ecology‘ in linguistics. In this way, it connects the huge fields of ecology and linguistics and is trying to find the intersection of these two sciences. The human-nature relations are taken into question.
Steffensen & Fill (2014) distinguish the following four types of ecologies of language:
The symbolic ecology of language
The natural ecology of language
The sociocultural ecology of language
The cognitive ecology of language
Further reading[edit | edit source]
Curated theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: collaborating within and beyond disciplines.[edit | edit source]
Suggested reading:[edit | edit source]
Clark, W. C. and N. M. Dickson (2003, jun). Sustainability science: The emerging research program. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(14), 8059–8061.
Mufwene, S. S. (2017). Language vitality: The weak theoretical underpinnings of what can be an exciting research area. Language 93(4), e202–e223.
Rodriguez Louro, C., Ponsonnet, M., Ritz, M-E., & Miceli, L. (2019). Sustainable Linguistics: A working proposal.
Seuren, P. A. M. (1998). Western Linguistics. Blackwell Publishing Limited.
Steffensen, S. V., & Fill, A. (2014). Ecolinguistics: the state of the art and future horizons. Language Sciences (Oxford), 41(Jan), 6–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2013.08.003
Stibbe, A. (2021). Ecolinguistics as a transdisciplinary movement and a way of life. In A. Burkette and T. Warhol (Eds.), Crossing Borders, Making Connections, pp. 71–88. Boston/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Tsunoda, T. (2006). Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization: An Introduction. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.Linguistics and sustainability: A series of Nordic workshops (2022-2023), https://blogs.helsinki.fi/linguisticsandsustainability/
