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
The following contain information on what sustainability actually 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
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
Concrete examples of sustainability in language revitalization projects.
Sustainablity and the fieldwork
How is sustainability connected to fieldwork and how can the fieldwork be improved following the sustainable practices?
Challenges
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?
Further reading
Curated theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: collaborating within and beyond disciplines.
Suggested reading:
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
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/
