FACULTY OF EXACT AND NATURAL SCIENCES
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
FACULTY OF LAW
21-26 July, 2025 Tbilisi, Georgia
State Language Department, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics are pleased to invite applications for a week-long second international summer school in sociolinguistics, running from Monday 21 July to Sunday 26 July 2025. Conducted in person in the First Campus of Tbilisi State University.
The Second International Summer School in Sociolinguistics focuses on the theory and practice of sociolinguistics, language contact, linguistic situation, language hierarchy, language policy and human rights.
Summer School in Sociolinguistics is targeted at both BA, Ma and PHD students, also post-docs, junior and senior researchers and offers six various topics. It will be last five days, the fifth day for student presentations, which will be followed by the excursion and banquet on Saturday, July 26, 202.
Main topics:
From early to modern Sociolinguistics; Methodologies of sociolinguistics;
Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Diglossia and Multilingual Communities: Contact, Conflict and Management;
Linguistic Geography; Origins, diversity and language death;
Language Policy—Case Studies;
Theoretical frames about a historical perspective in sociolinguistics
Diachronic aspects of language contact ;
Substratum, language shift, elite multilingualism.
Language and Colonialism; Postcolonial Language Policies;
Language norms and ideologies; Language standardization and codification;
Power, Identity, and Resistance; Globalization and Linguistic Futures.
To participate in the Summer School, knowledge of English is required, since English is the working language of the school.
Minimum Education Level: Linguistics, Sociology
Registration Instructions:
Registration Open until 16-Jul-2025
To receive an online application, an applicant of Summer School in Sociolinguistics can send an email to the following address: gashol.ge@gmail.com
Applications are invited until 16 July, 2025 through the online application form:
English: https://shorturl.at/X0wU7
Georgian: https://shorturl.at/5GRJp