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Geolinguistic organizations

Geolinguistic organizations is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Geolinguistic organizations rather than just read about it. In short: Geolinguistic organizations may be divided into academic associations, research institutes, and academic journals. Academic associations The two oldest associations for individuals interested in geolinguistics both date to 1965 and are "Amici Linguarum" (language friends) and The American Society of Geolinguistics.

Key takeaways

Geolinguistic organizations belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
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Reproduce the core statement of Geolinguistic organizations from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Geolinguistic organizations may be divided into academic associations, research institutes, and academic journals.

Academic associations The two oldest associations for individuals interested in geolinguistics both date to 1965 and are "Amici Linguarum" (language friends) and The American Society of Geolinguistics. Other important academic associations are the Asian Geolinguistic Society of Japan and The International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics.

Amici Linguarum The "Amici Linguarum" was founded in Sweden in 1965 by a Swedish linguist and polyglot, Erik V. Gunnemark, with the aim to propagate interest in languages, linguistics, and traditional European culture through a network of polyglots and people sharing interest in foreign languages. After E. Gunnemark's death in 2007, the activities of the association temporarily ceased. The revived association began editing a journal (Chasok/The Hour/La Horita/L'heure) in 2010 and organising linguistic meetings as well as free 'linguocultural' courses.

Asian Geolinguistic Society of Japan The Aim of this Society is "... to promote geolinguistic studies on Asian languages." Its activities include international conferences which have been regularly held every two years since 2012 and annual meetings held in Japan since 2013.

The American Society of Geolinguistics This society was founded in 1965 by Prof. Mario A. Pei of Columbia University. Reflecting the goals of its founder, the mission statement of The American Society of Geolinguistics has as its purpose "... to gather and disseminate up-to-date knowledge concerning the world`s present-day languages, dialects, and other language varieties in the context of their distribution and use, their relative practical importance, their perceived usefulness and actual availability from economic, political and cultural standpoints, their genetic, historical and geographical affiliations and relationships, and their identification and use in spoken and written form. The Society, as such, has varying degrees of interest in linguistic geography, languages in contact and conflict, language planning and policy, language education and the broader aspects of sociolinguistics." Though now more linguistically oriented, it has been thought of as an organization bridging the gap between linguistics and the other social sciences, including language geography as a branch of human geography.

The International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics This Society aims to promote dialectology and geolinguistics. It asserts its being "open to all theoretical and methodological approaches" and its willingness to collaborate "with all institutions concerned with dialectology and geolinguistics". Although it seeks "the exchange of knowledge in the domain of dialectology and geolinguistics, in particular with regard to new theories and methods", it puts emphasis on "the collaboration with all disciplines that contribute to the advancement of dialectology" and states its support for projects such as "the Atlas Linguarum Europae, the Panslavic Atlas, the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, and the linguistic-group atlases initiated within the ALE (Atlas Linguistique Roman, The Finnic Linguistic Atlas, The Germanic Linguistic Atlas, The Celtic Linguistic Atlas, etc." It also seeks the "preservation, in whatever form, of data, of dialects, of Jargons and slangs, of terminologies of traditional trades and of any other linguistic forms associated with disappearing ways of life" and offers its assistance "...to groups of researchers interested in the recording and study of dialects. It also lends its support to "the scientific study of minority languages and dialects, also with a view to their safeguard, in conformity with the declaration of human rights."

Research institutes

Jinan University Chinese Dialectology Research Center (Jìnán dàxué hànyǔ fāngyán yánjiū zhōngxīn) This research center sponsored, together with Foshan University, the Third International Conference on Chinese Geolinguistics 2014.

Academic journals

Geolinguistics This is an annual journal of the American Society of Geolinguistics that is distributed to all paid-up members. Articles for the journal are welcomed from members and non-members alike. It is specified that articles should be reasonably intelligible to educated non-specialists and that manuscripts will be evaluated for content.

Géolinguistique This journal is published by the University of Grenoble. It is described as being for the exploration of "...the variation of languages (particularly of non written languages) in space." It is also stated that articles "may deal with any aspect and domain of language (above all lexis, phonetics, morpho-syntax, prosody and microtoponymy)." Its ISSN is 07619081.

References

External links Asian Geolinguistic Society of Japan The American Society of Geolinguistics Archived 2020-10-01 at the Wayback Machine The International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Geolinguistic organizations

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Geolinguistic organizations claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Geolinguistic organizations before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Geolinguistic organizations ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Geolinguistic organizations

In research: Geolinguistic organizations appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Geolinguistic organizations in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Geolinguistic organizations is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Language geography, Types of organization, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Geolinguistic organizations outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Geolinguistic organizations in simple terms?

Geolinguistic organizations may be divided into academic associations, research institutes, and academic journals. Academic associations The two oldest associations for individuals interested in geolinguistics both date to 1965 and are "Amici Linguarum" (language friends) and The American Society o…

Why does Geolinguistic organizations matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Geolinguistic organizations?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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