"Diversity of minority language communities: Mutual intelligibility, identity, and standard"
Fall School 2021 (06-08.10.2021)
In October 2021, the workshop "Diversity of minority language communities: Mutual intelligibility, identity, and standard" will be offered by Prof. Adli (University of Cologne) Prof. Amirpur (University of Cologne), Prof. Karimi-Doostan (University of Tehran) and Prof. Karimi (University of Kurdistan). This course is a joint class with students from the University of Cologne, the University of Tehran, and the University of Kurdistan, as part of the international, cross-cultural teaching project.
We will focus on sociolinguistic issues of minority language communities, both in Europe (such as Sicilian in Italy) and beyond (such as Kurdish in Iran). We will in particular discuss the aspects of mutual intelligibility, the question of a common identity among divergent dialects of a minority language, and the role of a dominant majority language (such as Italian with regard to Sicilian, or Persian, Turkish, or Arabic with regard to Kurdish). The intensive workshop will be followed by a period of selected reading.
Aria Adli
Professor for Romance Language at the Romance Seminar and head of the Sociolinguistic Lab, University of Cologne
Katajun Amirpur
Professor for Islamic Studies at the Oriental Seminar, University of Cologne
Yadgar Karimi
Professor at the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, University of Kurdistan
Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Kurdistan
Gholamhossein Karimi-Doostan
Professor at the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran