Language Standardization:
Trends and Challenges

Date: 14-Apr-2025 – 15-Apr-2025
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
Contact Person: Tinatin Bolkvadze
Meeting Email: interconference@tsu.ge
Web Site: tsu.ge

 

Call Deadline: 25-Feb-2025

Meeting Description:

Language Standardization: Trends and Challenges (LSTC)

Language policy makers, literary language theorists, language standardization and codification specialists are invited to the international conference “Language Standardization: Trends and Challenges” (LSTC) organized jointly by the State Language Department of Georgia, Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, Tbilisi State University and Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics.

The conference will be held on 14-15 April 2025 at Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Call for Papers:

Main topics of the conference:
– De facto and de jure norms of languages
– History of standardization and codification of languages
– The role of the codifier(s)
– Main tendencies of language codification
– Factors (political, economic, cultural, technological…) influencing language standardization
– Dissemination of rules and guidelines for standardization through educational policies and various types of computer technology
– Attitudes towards literary norms

Send the abstract to interconference@tsu.ge

Important dates:
Submission of abstracts: 02/25/2025
Notification of acceptance: 03/05/2025
Draft program: 03/10/2025