Arabic-L:LING:Language and Migration Call For Papers

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1) Subject: Language and Migration Call For Papers

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Date: 04 Apr 2001
From: Bernd Schroeder <Bernd.Schroeder at stud.uni-bayreuth.de>
Subject: Language and Migration Call For Papers

Call for papers

Contributors are cordially invited to present papers at the conference:

LANGUAGE, MIGRATION AND THE CITY

to be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

from 22 November - 23 November, 2001

Abstracts (up to 300 words) by 15 September, 2001 to:
jonathan.owens at uni-bayreuth.de

The methodological and theoretical basis of the colloquium will center
on urban sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on corpus-based approaches.
Contrastive perspectives are particularly welcome.

A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:

- language in the West vs. Third World
- migrants moving into an established dominant culture vs. migrants
moving into an urban culture in the making
- city with dominant standard language vs. city where no standard
language has effective normative force

- integration of second lg speakers vs. integration of multidialectal
speakers
- contrasts between older, established multilingual communities vs.
those arising through recent immigration
- influence of urban varieties on rural areas
- urban-urban migration

Specific linguistic issues include the following:

- Koinization, standardization, development of prestige varieties
- Language repertoires, styles, codeswitching
- language and social networks
- Language contact, shift, maintenance and death
- Vitality measures (should the state of available information warrant
such)

It is intended that contributions will be published in a refereed
sociolinguistics series.

contact: jonathan.owens at uni-bayreuth.de
Further information at the conference website:
http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/arabistik/sfb/start.htm

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