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LICHEN  

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  • Short Title: LICHEN Project URL: http://www.polaryear.no/prosjekter/LICHEN Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=82 This proposal outlines the LICHEN research project, which focuses on the languages and cultures of the northern circumpolar region. Faced with minority languages, governments have pursued policies of assimilation. This has applied to indigenous languages in Canada, to Gaelic and Scots in Scotland, and to Finnic minority languages in the Circumpolar region. The consequence of such policies has been the creation of ambivalent or negative feelings towards the mother tongue already in childhood, leading to low self-esteem, educational underachievement, unemployment and economic deprivation, and a variety of social and health problems. It is thus clear that language and culture are as important to the survival and well-being of populations as more obvious ecological and social issues. The aim of the project is twofold: firstly, to create an electronic framework for the collection, management, online display, and exploitation of existing corpora of the languages of the circumpolar regions, which is also applicable to other corpora that represent regional, social and other varieties of languages. To achieve this we rely on close collaboration between several well-established corpus projects to discuss common goals, needs and problems and to identify best practices. Secondly, the project aims to collect, preserve and disseminate information about the languages spoken in the region, thus also enabling research on them. This will also help promote the linguistic confidence and self-image of the speakers of these languages, strengthening their cultural awareness and facilitating cross-cultural communication between these peoples in an age of rapid global change. Thus, the project will benefit not only the academic community, but also the speakers of the languages concerned, and indeed other communities around the world battling with the same kinds of issues. The electronic framework is being developed at the University of Oulu, Finland, as a joint venture between the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Humanities and in collaboration with other project members and international experts. Within IPY 2007-2008 both an intranet and an internet version of the framework will be developed. In addition to this the project members will participate in the collection of data and dissemination of information. Each member has a unique goal within the project: some already have data, which may need digitization or formatting to be usable within the framework; others are looking to collect data. All members share a need for common practices and common tools to make the most use out of the data available. (en)

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