First Ιnternational Conference on the Dialect of Lesbos
The First International Conference on the Dialect of Lesbos will bring together linguists and interdisciplinary scientists. It is hoped that, through their thorough and illuminative analyses, novel proposals will emerge and light will be cast upon prominent grammatical and lexical dialectal phenomena that have so far passed unnoticed or are understudied. The sociolinguistic status of the dialect will be investigated, the relation of Modern Lesbian with the literature, theater and Ancient Lesbian will be tackled, and computational analyses will be proposed.
During the conference, there will be a presentation of the Dialectal Atlas of Lesbos, a theater play in the Agiasot variety will be presented in the town of Agiasos, and an exhibition of books and documents of the last two centuries will take place in Mytilene. Ηοnorary certificates will also be granted to people who have published dialectal texts.
The conference aims at attracting the interest of the international linguistic community on the interesting varieties of Modern Lesbian and the attitude of its speakers, the majority of whom resist to the sweeping influence of Standard Modern Greek. The conference is also expected to raise the awareness of the local community about the richness of their linguistic cultural heritage and contribute to the efforts carried out for its documentation and preservation.