42nd Esperanto Studies Conference, 2019
42nd Esperanto Studies Conference, 2019 ~ Lahti
Interlinguistic approaches to pidgins and creoles and 2019: The International Year of Indigenous Languages
Location: Setälä Hall, Isku Areena, Lahti, Finland
Date: July 25th, 2019, from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 15:00
Organiser: Orlando Raola
Programme:
10:15 – 10:30: Welcome and Introduction
Orlando Raola
10:30 – 11:10: Communicative ease of top-down planned languages and spontaneously developed languages: A comparison of some aspects of the planned language Esperanto and the pidgin Tok Pisin
Bengt-Arne Wickström
11:10 – 11:50: Indigenous languages spoken in Brazil and research about them during the twentieth century
Karina Oliveira
11:50 – 12:30: How would Esperanto help avoid the death of languages?
François Lo Jacomo
13:40 – 14:20: @ActLenguas (Language activism): Insights into language revitalisation in Latin America
Manuela Burghelea
14:20 – 15:15: Open debate: The future of Esperanto studies
Humphrey Tonkin (mediator) and all participants