Research project
Project promoter: SLORI, SLORIjezik language team
Project leader: Dr. Matejka Grgič
Contributors: Dr. Devan Jagodic, Dr. Sara Brezigar
Project implementation period: 2019-202
The project is based on the starting points of research conducted in national and international contexts. These have shown that no community – and especially no minority community – can guarantee the long-term preservation and development of a language if it does not develop and implement an appropriate language policy based on expert planning of the status, knowledge, use and corpus of the language, as well as language resources and tools.
On the basis of these premises, a new research project was developed that focuses on the Slovene-speaking community in Italy and seeks to lay the scientific foundations for the further implementation of strategies to ensure the long-term preservation and development of the Slovene language in the area of the Slovene minority settlement in Italy.
Project themes:
- analysis of the situation of the Slovene language in Italy at all levels of language planning:
- analysis of the status of the language;
- analysis of language acquisition;
- analysis of the use of the language;
- analysis of the language corpus;
- preparation of guidelines and measures in the field of language planning for the Slovene language in Italy;
- review of the language plans elaborated and implemented by other minorities in Europe and a verification of their implementation in the area of the Slovene minority in Italy.
Expected outcomes:
- publication of the final research report
- publication of intermediate and final results in scientific journals and/or monographs;
- drafting of strategic documents in the field of language planning for the Slovene language in Italy.