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<B>Von: </B>Beáta Wagner-Nagy <<a href="beata.wagner-nagy@uni-hamburg.de">beata.wagner-nagy@uni-hamburg.de</a>><BR>
<B>Antworten an: </B><<a href="beata.wagner-nagy@uni-hamburg.de">beata.wagner-nagy@uni-hamburg.de</a>><BR>
<B>Datum: </B>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:09:23 +0200<BR>
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<B>Uralic languages and multilingualism: contexts and manifestations in a language family<BR>
</B>The Department of Uralic Studies of the University of Hamburg is pleased to announce the conference<B> Uralic languages and multilingualism</B>, to be held from 2-4 June, 2011. <BR>
<B>Description<BR>
</B>For speakers of Uralic languages the phenomenon of bi- or multilingualism has been commonplace for a long time. Not only numerically, but also regarding the diversity of constellations in terms of interaction contexts and purposes, prestige and legal status (involving also literacy vs. oral tradition), the Uralic languages and dialects represent varied cases of multilingualism.<BR>
Within the frame of language contact studies, the problems were traditionally addressed from the <I>langue</I> perspective. Research primarily focused on borrowings at different linguistic levels, i.e. either in lexicon or in grammar. Socio-linguistic investigations and (or, in the combination with) descriptions of the patterns of multilingual communication from a discourse analytic perspective are rather exceptional. The conference aims therefore to encourage new approaches on multilingualism in Uralic idioms.<BR>
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<B>Call for papers<BR>
</B>We welcome papers dealing with both theoretical and empirical aspects of multilingualism involving at least one Uralic language or dialect. Contributions are expected to be based either on new data or new approaches of analysis. Possible subject areas are: <BR>
- development and manifestations of multilingualism in the Uralic language family;<BR>
- socio-linguistic factors determining language/dialect choice including language prestige, legal status and language policy, language or dialect endangerment; <BR>
- structural and pragmatic changes as an effect of multilingualism.<BR>
The conference languages are English and German. <BR>
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<B>Confirmed keynote speakers<BR>
Johanna Laakso</B>, University of Vienna: "Language contact in space and time: Perspectives and pitfalls in diachronic contact linguistics". <BR>
<B>Anna Fenyvesi</B>, University of Szeged: "Minority Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia: Schoolchildren's attitudes to their languages (minority vs. majority vs. EFL) and the teaching of these languages in their schools".<BR>
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<B>Submission of abstracts<BR>
</B>Contributions are invited for 20-minute oral presentations to be followed by a 10-minute discussion each. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (bibliography excluded) and should be sent electronically in word (doc or rtf) AND pdf format to the address of the organizing committee <a href="multiling.uralic@uni-hamburg.de">multiling.uralic@uni-hamburg.de</a> with the subject heading “Multilingualism”. <BR>
Abstracts must be anonymous. Name(s) of authors, e-mail address(es) and affiliation(s) should be sent in a separate document. The abstracts will be evaluated. <BR>
The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 10, 2010.<BR>
Notification of acceptance will be sent out at the latest by January 10, 2011.<BR>
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Prof. Dr. Beáta Wagner-Nagy<BR>
Institut für Finnougristik/Uralistik<BR>
Universität Hamburg<BR>
Johnsallee 35,<BR>
20148 Hamburg<BR>
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Tel: +49-40-42838-2787 (dienstl.)<BR>
Fax: +49-40-42838 6117<BR>
<a href="beata.wagner-nagy@uni-hamburg.de">beata.wagner-nagy@uni-hamburg.de</a><BR>
<a href="http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/">http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/</a><BR>
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