21.2629, Calls: Lang Doc, Socioling, Typology, Uralic/Germany

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Subject: 21.2629, Calls: Lang Doc, Socioling, Typology, Uralic/Germany

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Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Beata Wagner-Nagy < beata.wagner-nagy at uni-hamburg.de >
Subject: Uralic Languages and Multilingualism: Contexts and manifestations in a language family
 

	
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:33:03
From: Beata Wagner-Nagy [beata.wagner-nagy at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: Uralic Languages and Multilingualism: Contexts and manifestations in a language family

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Full Title: Uralic Languages and Multilingualism: Contexts and 
manifestations in a language family 

Date: 02-Jun-2011 - 04-Jun-2011
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Beata Wagner-Nagy
Meeting Email: multiling.uralic at uni-hamburg.de
Web Site: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/multilingualism.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Uralic 

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2010 

Meeting Description:

Uralic languages and multilingualism: contexts and manifestations in a 
language family

The Department of Uralic Studies of the University of Hamburg is pleased to
announce the conference Uralic languages and multilingualism, to be held 
from 2-4 June, 2011.

Description
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.
Within the frame of language contact studies, the problems were 
traditionally addressed from the langue 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.

Confirmed keynote speakers

Johanna Laakso, University of Vienna: 'Language contact in space and 
time:
Perspectives and pitfalls in diachronic contact linguistics'.

Anna Fenyvesi, 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'. 

Call For Papers

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:
- development and manifestations of multilingualism in the Uralic language 
family;
- socio-linguistic factors determining language/dialect choice including
language prestige, legal status and language policy, language or dialect
endangerment;
- structural and pragmatic changes as an effect of multilingualism.

The conference languages are English and German.

Submission of abstracts
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 
multiling.uralic at uni-hamburg.de with the subject heading "Multilingualism".

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.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 10, 2010.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out at the latest by January 10, 2011.
The book of abstracts will be published on the conference website at
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/multilingualism.html





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