8.1496, Calls: Generative syntax, DIS-UNIFICATION
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Subject: 8.1496, Calls: Generative syntax, DIS-UNIFICATION
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:59:35 +0200 (METDST)
From: Jan-Wouter Zwart <zwart at let.rug.nl>
Subject: posting Call for contributions
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:52:57 GMT
From: "Patrick Stevenson" <ps at lang.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: German conference
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:59:35 +0200 (METDST)
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Germanic Generative Syntax Newsletter, Fall 1997.
Call for Contributions
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:52:57 GMT
From: "Patrick Stevenson" <ps at lang.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: German conference
Call for Papers:
DIS-UNIFICATION
Competing Constructions of Contemporary Germany
An international conference organised jointly by the University of Southampton
and Southampton Institute.
Date: 16-17 April 1998
Venue: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, UK
Organisers: Patrick Stevenson, University of Southampton
John Theobald, Southampton Institute
Mike Weaver, Southampton Institute
Keynote speakers: Peter Auer, Hamburg University
Ulrike Meinhof, Bradford University
______________________________________________________________
Titles and abstracts (approx. 200 words) for 30-minute papers are invited under
two main headings, corresponding to two strands in the conference
programme:
1 Divergent Discourses
This strand will focus on public (e.g. mediatic, educational, political, intellectual,
historiographical) encodings of contemporary German identities. It
will analyse and question a range of formulations intended to
influence German collective self-understanding. For example:
. What has become of the triumphal discourse of unity?
. Post-unification `Eastern' and `Western' discourses and identities - old
ideologies in new disguises? Or new responses to new conflicts?
. Far right and neo-nazi discourses of Germanness - taboo-breaking
protest? Or a potent discursive response to perceived inadequate
identity myths?
. `European', `multicultural' and `global' identities -
genuine alternatives? Or escape from the German into the utopian?
. Stereotyping `the Germans' - fun for whom? Whose games?
The unifying feature of contributions should be a methodological approach based
on critical discourse analysis of texts.
Please send proposals for papers in this strand to:
Dr John Theobald, Associate Professor in Modern Languages,
Southampton Institute, East Park Terrace, Southampton S014 0YN, UK.
Tel. +44 1703 319583 Fax. +44 1703 319490
E-mail john.theobald at solent.ac.uk
2 Communicative Dissonance
This strand will focus on personal encodings of contemporary German identities,
and will address some of the issues underlying discordant
communicative practices in the reshaped German speech community. For
example:
. Will communicative differences between `East' and `West' Germans be as
short-lived as some commentators suppose?
. Are these differences a superficial `problem' to be `overcome' through
compensatory education programmes? Or an expression of profoundly
divergent cultural identities?
. Is the East/West dichotomy still appropriate? Or are hybrid speech
styles emerging?
. Should East/West questions be treated in isolation? Or should they
be seen as one amongst many manifestations of inter- (or
intra-)cultural communication patterns that have evolved in
Germany in recent years?
The unifying feature of contributions should be a methodological approach
based on the analysis of interpersonal interaction or of attitudes
towards communicative difference.
Please send proposals for papers in this strand to:
Patrick Stevenson, Senior Lecturer in German, School of Modern Languages,
University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
Tel. +44 1703 593405 Fax. +44 1703 593288
E-mail ps at lang.soton.ac.uk
NB CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 31 OCTOBER 1997
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