21.2286, Calls: General Ling/Germany

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Subject: 21.2286, Calls: General Ling/Germany

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Date: 19-May-2010
From: Doris Stolberg < stolberg at ids-mannheim.de >
Subject: 2 Tagung Deutschlands Koloniallinguistik

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Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:23:26
From: Doris Stolberg [stolberg at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: 2 Tagung Deutschlands Koloniallinguistik

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Full Title: 2 Tagung Deutschlands Koloniallinguistik 
Short Title: DKL 2 

Date: 30-Sep-2010 - 01-Oct-2010
Location: Mannheim, Germany 
Contact Person: Doris Stolberg
Meeting Email: stolberg at ids-mannheim.de
Web Site: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/lexik/tagung_kolonialling 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

The Conference 'Language contact and linguistics in the former German 
colonies' (2nd Conference on Germany's Colonial Linguistics) takes place at 
the Institut für deutsche Sprache in Mannheim on September 30 - October 
1, 2010.

Description
During the German colonial era, roughly between 1884 and 1914, German 
administrative officials, missionaries, settlers and traders came into contact 
with a previously unknown extent of linguistic diversity and 'foreignness' that 
most of them were not prepared to encounter. The First Conference on 
Germany's Colonial Linguistics (Unversity of Bremen, 2009) initiated a 
critical acclaim of the colonial-era descriptions of the languages of Togo, 
Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania, Micronesia, New Guinea, and Samoa.
The Second Conference on Germany's Colonial Linguistics focusses on the 
investigation of how this new linguistic universe was explored. Special 
attention will be paid to language interaction and contact leading to long-
term effects (e.g. borrowing).
A special context of language contact arose from the fact that the German 
language came into contact with an exceptionally large number of other 
languages within a geographically limited area. This setting had specific 
consequences for linguistic interactions and decisions on language policy 
that is not easily compared to any other sociolinguistic constellation within 
the history of German. A variable use of German in administration, missions, 
and schools resulted in diverging forms of language interaction and 
language policies. The mutual impact on the languages involved has not 
been investigated adequately to date.
The conference language is German; papers may be held in German or 
English.

Further information
http://www.ids-mannheim.de/lexik/tagung_kolonialling/

Contact 
Doris Stolberg
stolberg at ids-mannheim.de
Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Postfach 10 16 21
D-68016 Mannheim 

Call For Papers

Papers are invited on linguistic topics relating to the German colonial era. 
We particularly welcome presentations focussing on contact-induced 
linguistic interference between German and the languages of the former 
German colonies, investigating possible factors that lead to variance in 
linguistic outcomes. 
The conference language is German; papers may be held in German or 
English.

Abstracts (max. 350 words excl. references) should be submitted to 
stolberg at ids-mannheim.de by July 15, 2010.
Notification of acceptance will by sent out by August 1, 2010.

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