31.3656, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lexicography, Socioling/South Africa and Online

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Subject: 31.3656, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lexicography, Socioling/South Africa and Online

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:27:16
From: Chrismi Loth [kongresETFB at ufs.ac.za]
Subject: Sixth International Symposium on Place Names 2021

 
Full Title: Sixth International Symposium on Place Names 2021 
Short Title: ISPN 2021 

Date: 29-Sep-2021 - 01-Oct-2021
Location: Bloemfontein, South Africa 
Contact Person: Chrismi Loth
Meeting Email: kongresETFB at ufs.ac.za
Web Site: http://www.ufs.ac.za/2021ispn 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

Sixth International Symposium on Place Names 2021
Standardisation and the wealth of place names – aspects of a delicate
relationship

The Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies at the
University of the Free State (RSA), in partnership with the Joint IGU/ICA
Commission on Toponymy, is pleased to announce the next biennial international
symposium on place names, directly preceded by a related virtual workshop
(Collecting and documenting informal and alternative place names).

Keynote speakers
 - Mr Pierre Jaillard (Chair: UNGEGN)
 - Dr Tendai Mangena (Great Zimbabwe University)


Call for Papers: 

Topographic features, both natural and made by humans, are often known by
multiple names simultaneously, including official, conventionalised, informal
as well as other alternative names. With the theme for this symposium we wish
to explore the issues regarding multiple place names vis-à-vis processes of
standardisation from the perspective of critical toponomy. Of course, there
are practical implications for place names as points of reference. Beyond
that, place naming is a process of claiming spaces and proclaiming or imposing
identity. Viewing place names as linguistic and cultural heritage artefacts,
we need to consider what it means to document and use these alternative names.
Not only are we interested in how these names come into being, but also the
roles they perform in social dynamics.

Potential subtopics: 
Only a limited number of papers can be accommodated, as all sessions will be
plenary. Abstracts (250 words) can be submitted online at
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ISPN2021 in the following (but not limited to)
categories of research by 5 March 2021:

 - Forms of multiples names – alternative, conventionalised, official,
informal, replaced and restored names, as well as signed place names (i.e.
place names in signed languages) and exonyms.
 - Processes that produce multiple names – official processes, grass-level
practices, processes of conventionalisation, language contact, socio-political
dynamics and the dialectic between linguistic communities and different social
groups (for example, between established, incoming, transient and external
communities).
 - Multilingualism and multiple names – translations, transliterations and
adaptations; different orthographies, registers and dialects; as well as
signed languages and spoken languages without written systems.
 - Collecting, recording, recognising, and using multiple, informal or
alternative place names, including names in indigenous or minority languages
(such as signed languages) and microtoponyms (names of fields, houses,
neighbourhoods and small towns).
 - Standardisation processes and multiple names.
 - The implications of multiple names on cartography, geography, online
mapping and the digitisation of place names.
 - Other dimensions of multiple place names: administrative, commercial and/or
economic, cultural and historical/commemorative, physical, political, and
linguistic.




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