Invitation (hybrid event): Citizen Sociolinguistics as participatory practice – explorations and reflections

You are warmly welcome to participate in the final seminar of the LANGAWARE project, funded by Kone Foundation 2023-25. At the seminar, we will share experiences, results as well as challenges of participatory practice within the framework of Sociolinguistics. The first part of the day will be devoted to presenting and discussing key observations of the LANGAWARE project. The second half will feature presentations by fellow European Sociolinguistic projects based on participatory practices.

Please register to the event by October 15th using this link:

 The zoom link will be distributed to all registered participants.

11:15 Opening

11:30 Kaarina Hippi & Johanna Vaattovaara: Exploratory co-research on ‘language regard’ – academic and lay approaches in dialogue  

12:00 Helmi Marttila:  Working for understanding subtitling as a task of paraprofessionals

12:30 Olli Kuparinen: Self-report method as means of monitoring linguistic change – findings and further ideas

13:00 Lunch break (served at the venue)

14.00 Discussion session

14:30 Barbara Soukup, University of Vienna: Citizen Science with Viennese high schoolers in the project ’VisibLL’ – Outcomes, impacts, learnings

15:15 Break with refreshments

15:30 Christoph Purschke, University of Luxembourg: Participation, motivation and social gaze control in the Lingscape project

16.15 Unn Røyneland, University of Oslo: Language activism and the role of scholars

17:00 Closing