Name: webinaire sur les langues minoritaires « Silenced minority languages: Folk tales, songs (France, Greece) »
Start: 2022-09-09T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-09T13:00:00+02:00

intervention de Myriam Guillevic et Stefan Moal vendredi 9 septembre à 10h.

lien Zoom pour y participer : https://zoom.us/j/8364531775?pwd=OVg3YVZlbmVCYWs3S0JYcEFGYlV1QT09

Meeting ID: 836 453 1775

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Détails

Date :: 9 septembre 2022
Heure :: 10h00 - 13h00

In many cases of unrecognized minority languages, the first to undergo suppression, for the language to stop evolving and become gradually forgotten, is the folk tradition. The folk tradition, due to its psychological power over the speakers, connected with the dearest memories from their childhood or with reminiscences of festivities in one’s hometown or village, is too powerful to be ignored by state authorities in their effort to reinforce the narrative of the linguistic unity of the entire people. The Webinar “Silenced Minority Languages. (France, Greece)” will attempt to approach this phenomenon of language suppression in a comparative way. It will include scholars who deal with this phenomenon in Greece and in France, two countries which do not even consider signing and ratifying the European Charta on Regional or Minority Languages.

The Webinar will contribute to our knowledge on local minority folklore cultivation in two European countries – France and Greece—the politics of which towards linguistic and ethnic minorities are similar. It will be interesting to observe the means of the attempted suppression of two important areas of language use: folk tale and song, the ways in which the speakers bypass restrictions, the changes that suppression has caused to the original form of folktale and song etc. The area of folk tradition belongs to the very essence of ENTAN, since it signifies the cultural diversity of linguistic and ethnic minorities and corresponds to the needs and wishes of minority members.

Apart from information and exchange of facts and data, the Webinar will initiate a closing discussion between the young attendees of the two countries and examine possibilities for further actions and collaboration. Further, the webinar would also contribute towards future policy considerations, especially since the discussion about minorities in countries which deny the existence of any minorities should first start with this kind of research before minority rights accommodation, including non-territorial autonomy arrangements, can be considered as a viable option.

webinaire sur les langues minoritaires « Silenced minority languages: Folk tales, songs (France, Greece) »

9 septembre 2022 | 10h00 - 13h00