Texas Czech Legacy Project
9. 1. 2023
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1 minuta
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Preserving the Czech Language around the World: Texas Czech Legacy Project An illustrated talk by Lida Cope, PhD |
 Linguistics
professor Lida Cope will talk about her efforts to document a dying
dialect of Czech Moravians who started arriving in Texas in the second
half of the 19th century, about Svatava Pírková Jakobson, who gathered a
unique archive of folklore from immigrants in New York City's "Czech
village," Texas, and elsewhere, and about the challenges in promoting
and preserving Czech language, culture, and identity in the
English-speaking world.
Sunday, January 22 at 3 PM (EST) Please register to receive a link HERE! Free and open to the public Suggested donation $5.00 
Lida Cope
is a professor of applied linguistics at East Carolina University in
Greenville, North Carolina. Her areas of expertise include first
language attrition, language contact and diaspora, and language
documentation. Her research examines the questions of language, culture,
and identity in historically Czech Moravian communities in Texas. Dr.
Cope directs the Texas Czech Legacy Project,
housed at the University of Texas at Austin, whose main objective is to
build an open-access corpus of Texas Czech speech. Her publications
include a comprehensive overview of Czech communities around the world Language loss: Czech in the diaspora (co-authored with Robert Dittmann of Charles University, BRILL 2020) and Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Documenting a diasporic variety of Czech in Texas (Naše řeč [Our Speech] 2021).
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