Open AccessDo Island Languages Exist? A research note from the Nordic countries
Author(s) -
Joshua Nash,
Jón Símon Markússon,
Peter Bakker
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
shima
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.246
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1834-6057
pISSN - 1834-6049
DOI - 10.21463/shima.109
Subject(s) - position statement , statement (logic) , ontology , position (finance) , geography , political science , regional science , history , epistemology , law , business , medicine , philosophy , family medicine , finance
This critical report-cum-position statement summarises several workshops and conference panels recently held in three Nordic countries—Denmark, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands—based in developing the concept of island languages. It puts forward the epistemology and ontology of these sessions. The role these gatherings are playing in encouraging a more linguistically mandated direction within island studies and the study of island languages, especially in the Nordic countries and Europe, is summarised.