Talk:Sustainable linguistics (definition)

• What does “sustainable” mean? This is important for the definition. In the text, the economical aspects are missing (basing on the three pilars of sustainability). Other definition would be “it stays in the future”
• Sustainable linguistics should not be equated with language endangerment, but the discussion always goes towards that. (e.g. understanding language ecologies)
• ‘Sustainable linguistics’ is ambiguous between sustainability of linguistics and the contribution linguistics can make to addressing sustainability issues. There are, however, connections between the two: the way in which we do things in linguistics affects the impact we can have on sustainability issues. Therefore, both questions need to be addressed in conjunction. (take-home message on the slides)
• sustainability should be something that everyone has in mind while working on their own research. Research should be planned and organized with sustainability as a central goal, in whatever form it works for the specific discipline.

• As a movement within linguistics

  o	To promote sustainability issues relating to the study of language

• As a potential subfield of linguistics

  o	Could be complicated/ problematic (would seem like there is a subfield by this name when there isn't)
  o	Potential for isolation
  o	Issues of sustainability are inherently interdisciplinary and are related to all fields of science
  o	Could promote focus on solutions and increase visibility in sustainable linguistics

• As a branch of sustainability science

  o	Broad and interdisciplinary
  o	difficult to find for linguists?

• Do we want to keep the title "sustainable linguistics"? Or "a sustainable linguistics", or "sustainability in linguistics"?

Why I think sustainable linguistics as a (partial) title would be great:

  o	creates discussion ++
  o	it is not a specific type/subfield of linguistics
  o	not only about sustainability in linguistics, but includes how linguistics can benefit sustainability
 

What about "linguistic sustainability"?

What is the link between understanding language endangerment and mechanisms threatening general sustainability? It is kind of a long shot to say that the reason behind the death of a language also apply to other fields in which something is not sustained. Also, as mentioned above, endangerment of languages is only a part of the discussion in sustainable linguistics.