Photo: Czech Academy of Sciences
The Czech Academy of Sciences has launched a campaign using bold comic-book style graphics under the heading “Become a superdialectologist!” to try to get young people involved in a new project. The aim: to capture the current landscape of Czech dialects as they are spoken today, before they disappear.
Young people aged 10-19 are the target audience of this Czech dialect mapping project’s poster campaign, with the aim of getting them to collect a large number and broad variety of recordings from all over the country. Marta Šimečková is from the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Czech Language Institute, which is behind the project.
“Usually it is dialectologists like us who go out and do fieldwork. But we would like it if young people tried their hand at playing the role of a dialectologist, by going out into the field and talking to their grandparents or other relatives, and getting a recording of the conversation.”
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Anna Fodor, Sources:ČT24, Akademie věd ČR