EKM Teaduskirjastus

Annual conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies and annual 61st Kreutzwald Days conference

Variation in language, literature, folklore, and music

On behalf of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies we warmly welcome you in Tartu. We hope that your stay in Tartu will be a success and that you will take back many inspiring ideas and colourful memories.
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and the entire worldview, and as such connects the different domains explored by the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies. The aim of the conference is to discuss the issues related to specific and common in variation in language, literature, folklore, and music, and the confluences and connections between different variations. The conference also features round-table discussions on the methods for studying variation and problems concerned with data (large and small databases, so-called bad data).
The presentations handle different aspects of variation, for example:
• Synchronic and diachronic variation, levels of variation (individual, local, regional, historical), comparison of variants (registers, dialects, genres), factors influencing variation; methods for studying variation; variation in web environments;
• Intra-linguistic factors of linguistic variation (e.g. system constraints, regularities of linguistic changes);
• Extra-linguistic factors of linguistic variation (e.g. extra-linguistic context of language varieties, contacts with other languages and language varieties, language planning);
• Linguistic variations in folklore, variations in writer’s choices, usage of dialects in fiction;
• Variation as the main basis of dynamics of folklore, variation as an issue of typologisation;
• Variations of myths and motifs; intertextuality, transmediality;
• Cultural variation in the Baltic area, incl. the Russian-language culture of the Baltic states;
• Type and variant in folk music, variational nature of traditional musical thinking.
https://www.folklore.ee/CEES/2017/akonve_e.htm