23.1344, Confs: Sociolinguistics, Typology/France

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Subject: 23.1344, Confs: Sociolinguistics, Typology/France

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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:49:45
From: Betina Schnabel [betina.schnabel at univ-rennes2.fr]
Subject: Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use

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Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use 
Short Title: ToponymRennes 

Date: 22-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012 
Location: Rennes (Brittany), France 
Contact: Jonas Löfström & Betina Schnabel-Le Corre 
Contact Email: colloque-toponymrennes at univ-rennes2.fr 
Meeting URL: http://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/lidile/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use
International Conference on March 22 - 23, 2012 at the University of 
Rennes 2, France
Toponymie Synchronique Multilingue (TopoLing) Equipe d'Accueil 
LIDILE (EA 3874) - Université Rennes 2 

Perhaps more than any other word class proper names are situated at 
the interface of languages and most researchers no longer consider 
them as mere tags. On the contrary, synchronic approaches now 
arouse interest among linguists as the increasing number of projects 
related to synchronic toponymy shows.

Actually, although the relative textual frequency of proper names is not 
very high, their relative lexical frequency appears to be significant. 
Synchronic studies of proper names and mainly toponyms is therefore 
an essential task, not only to determine the conditions of their use, but 
also to describe their structure and lexical status as well as the 
psychological, sociological and political implications of their use and 
function in discourse. All these factors account for the great variety of 
linguistic projects related to toponyms, i.e. grammatical and 
morphosyntactical studies, modelisation, as well as the use of 
toponyms in spoken and written contexts.

This conference will offer the opportunity to take stock of this question 
and to identify the heuristic value of synchronic research in toponymy 
for the descriptions of languages. 

Please download the current program on the following link: 

http://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/lidile/?p=463







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