19.3038, Confs: General Ling, Historical Ling, Typology, Socioling/Finland

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Date: 06-Oct-2008
From: Matti Miestamo < matti.miestamo at helsinki.fi >
Subject: Globality, Locality and Contact

 

	
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:01:18
From: Matti Miestamo [matti.miestamo at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Globality, Locality and Contact 

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Globality, Locality and Contact 
Short Title: Glob-Loc 

Date: 17-Nov-2008 - 18-Nov-2008 
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact: Matti Miestamo 
Contact Email: Glob-Loc at helsinki.fi 
Meeting URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/GlobLoc.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

An interdisciplinary symposium to be held at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
Studies 17-18 November 2008 

Globality, Locality and Contact- Language and Culture

An interdisciplinary symposium to be held at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
Studies, 17-18 November 2008

The programme and abstracts are now available online at
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/GlobLoc.htm

Keynote speakers:

Tom Güldemann (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig/Linguistics)
Linguistic Macro-areas in Africa: Geography and Population Dynamics

Deborah Kapchan (New York University)
The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco

Peter Mühlhäusler (University of Adelaide)
Language Contact and Language Substance - From a Formal to an Ecological
Approach to Pidgins and Creoles

Further information and registration (by October 31):
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/GlobLoc.htm

The symposium is organised by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, in
cooperation with the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in
English, the Department of General Linguistics and the Department of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki.







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