LANGUAGE CONFLICT

The Language Conflict Project (LCP) is an interdisciplinary collaborative across Political Science, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities studying the relationship between language and social conflict. The Project's goal is to advance our understanding of ways in which language differences and policies correlate with the onset, escalation, persistence, and de-escalation of intrastate conflict. In the pursuit of this goal, we seek to implement a workable typology, to reveal useful generalizations to clarify the role that privileged/non-privileged language dichotomy plays in triggering and perpetuating such conflicts. Our typology includes these categories: (i) indigenous language conflict, (ii) geopolitical event-generated language conflict, (iii) migration generated language conflict, (iv) intra-language (dialect) conflict, (v) privileged vs. underprivileged language competition, (vi) global (colonial) vs. local language conflict. Our research questions include the following: Do language..

Also known as: Language Conflict Encyclopedia