28.1415, Confs: Anthro Ling, Discourse Analysis, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:43:17
From: Charlotte Meisner [info at spur.uzh.ch]
Subject: Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: Linguistics and Geography

 
Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: Linguistics and Geography 
Short Title: BTLI2017 

Date: 23-Apr-2017 - 28-Apr-2017 
Location: Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland 
Contact: Charlotte Meisner 
Contact Email: boundaries2017 at spur.uzh.ch 
Meeting URL: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/boundaries 

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

Meeting Description: 

Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives
from Linguistics and Geography

Spatial boundaries can be considered as real or imaginary lines separating two
things. Hence we may find natural, social, linguistic or geographical
boundaries. Boundaries are often visualized on maps, and the scientific
discipline most obviously concerned with them is geography. Within
linguistics, the fields of dialectology and typology are traditionally
concerned with boundaries, in that they mark linguistic areas on maps. Aside
from this local scale, interactional spaces emerge in concrete social
situations. It is this micro level of face-to-face interaction and its
delimination of being ''inside'' and ''outside'' that provides the focus of
interactional linguistics. Linguistic boundaries are never clear-cut, but are
better characterised as overlapping transitional spaces because of myriads of
interaction episodes arising from migration and urbanisation. Moreover, human
interaction is being transformed by new communication technologies dissolving
physical boundaries, while socio-cultural and linguistic ones may persist. 

The interdisciplinary symposium ''Spatial boundaries and transitions in
language and interaction'', organized by the University Research Priority
Program (URPP) ''Language and Space'' (University of Zurich) will combine
perspectives from geography and linguistics, bringing together eminent experts
and highly qualified young researchers from various linguistic fields
(including contact linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, cognitive
linguistics and conversation analysis); cultural and human geography,
anthropology, and geographical information science. It will address the role
of boundaries and transitions at different levels, theoretically as well as
empirically, and will bring focus to the methodological underpinnings of a
wide range of relevant approaches.

Core Topics and Sessions:

The relevant disciplinary perspectives with regard to spatial boundaries will
be covered by talks from eminent experts. These include the roles of spatial
boundaries within linguistic areas, within human geography, within
interactional spaces, and within GIScience. The core topics of the conference
will be developed within four sessions dedicated to different ways of
conceiving, and representing spatial boundaries. The sessions will be
introduced by renowned experts in their field of research. An evening talk
open to the interested public will discuss very current issues of migration,
borders and boundaries from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Invited Speakers:

- Peter Auer
- Christian Berndt
- Frans Gregersen
- Tom Güldemann
- Alfred Lameli
- Setha Low
- Dan Montello
- Barbara Tversky
- Ruth Wodak

Workshop:

The conference also includes a one-day workshop entitled ''Inferring and
Visualizing boundaries from data''. It is conceived and hosted by the URPP
members C. Derungs (GISLab), W. Kesselheim (VideoLab), and T. Samardžić
(CorpusLab). 

Organization:

E. Glaser, H. Hausendorf, P. Longley, A. Kolmer, Ch. Meisner, R. Zaugg

Scientific Committee:

W. Behr, Ch. Dürscheid, E. Glaser, S. Günthner, J. Harrington, H. Hausendorf,
Ch. Heath, M. Hundt, W. Kesselheim, A. Lameli, A. Ledgeway, A. Linke, P.
Longley, A. Lüdeling, D. Nübling, D. Preston, R. Purves, H. Ruch, J. Salmons,
T. Samardžić, D. Schreier, B. Sonnenhauser, B. Tschofen, R. van Gijn, R.
Watts, R. Weibel, P. Widmer
 

Program: 

Link to program Website:
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/en/veranstaltungen/workshops/2017/boundaries/program.ht
ml

Link to program PDF: 
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:7be8b1a8-ef7b-407a-92c8-3b8ffd0e2172/2017-03-20
-SPUR_Programmheft_Web.pdf

Link to program overview PDF: 
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:020d42da-bad2-4866-966d-9dd6e925bb4f/2017-03-20
-SPUR_Leporello_Web.pdf

Monday, 24 April:

09:15:
Keynote Talk: Tom Güldemann
Linguistic macro-areas in Africa: when boundaries are areas themselves

10:45: 
Input Talk Session 1: Peter Auer
Walking and talking: how speakers jointly manoeuver in space

11:30:
Paul Luff, Christian Heath, Menisha Patel
Boundaries in interaction spaces: embodied interaction within a large working
environment

14:00:
Martin de Heaver, Paul Luff, Christian Heath
Crossing Boundaries: interactions through locations within a moving
environment

14:30:
Albert Acedo and Marco Painho
“You should participate” or “I want to participate” – engaging spatial
boundaries

15:00:
Randi Moore
Defining ''community'' through spatial reference: Communities of practice in
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

16:00:
Sabine Lehner
Representations of space and borders in the Austrian public discourse on
Asylum and in narratives of disPLACEd persons

16:30:
Paul Longley, Jens Kandt, Tian Lan
Surname geographies, socio-cultural interaction and new functional regions

Tuesday, 25. April:

09:15:
Keynote Talk: Setha Low
Language, Discourse and Space: A Conceptual Framework for the Ethnography of
Space and Place

10:45:
Input Talk Session 2: Alfred Lameli
Intangible Borders – Linguistic Areas and Socio-Cultural Practices

11:30:
Stefanie Siebenhuetter
Conceptual transfer of spatial reference due to language contact? A semantic
approach to cultural conceptualization in the linguistic area Mainland
Southeast Asia

14:00:
Sarah Grossenbacher, David Britain, Adrian Leemann , Marie-José Kolly, Tam
Blaxter, Daniel Wanitsch
Smartphone app methodologies for regional dialectology: the English
North-South divide in data from the English Dialects App

14:30:
Daan Hovens
What is the language of the euregio rhine-meuse-north? Euroregional
integration and the future of languages near the Dutch-German border

15:00:
Maja Miličević, Nikola Ljubešić, Tanja Samardžić
Establishing borders between states vs languages: Twitter data to the rescue

16:00:
Arjen Versloot
Isolation and archaisms: a GIS-case study on Alemannic dialects of Wallis and
northern Italy

16:30:
Balthasar Bickel, Curdin Derungs
Linguistic areas bottom-up

20:30:
Public Event: Ruth Wodak
‘The Language of Walls’ - Analyzing Rightwing Populist Discourse 

Wednesday, 26. April:

09:15:
Keynote Talk: Christian Berndt
Human geography's borders

10:45:
Input Talk Session 3: Barbara Tversky
Clarity and Ambiguity

11:30:
Ditte Boeg Thomsen, Marc D.S. Volhardt
Walking and wording the mountains in Yuhu

14:00:
Gaurav Sinha, David Mark
Exploring Landforms in Multiple Representational Spaces

14:30:
Jan Heegard Petersen
Boundaries in culture, physical landscape and language: The Kalasha (Northwest
Pakistan)

15:00:
Ekaterina Egorova, Ross S. Purves
Investigating the Meaning of Landscape Terms through the Corpus-based
Semantics Approach

16:00:
Elwys De Stefani
Talking about place names: Tourist guides' practices of self- and
other-categorization

16:30:
Flurina Wartmann, Olga Chesnokova, Ross Purves
Mountains, moors, hills, lakes and rivers: Comparing folk language
categorizations across formal landscape typologies

17:30:
Poster Session:

A Mara Barbosa:
Reproducing and challenging language ideologies concerning Spanish in the
U.S.: the case of Indiana

B Christian Freksa and Ahmed Loai Ali:
Geographic objects, relations among them, and conceptual categories

C David Mark and Gaurav Sinha:
Conceptualizations of The Horizon: A fundamental Experiential Boundary

D Claudia Posch and Gerhard Rampl:
Mit ‚– wärts‘ geht’s abwärts. The descent of a German Suffixoid

E Dionysios Zoumpalidis and Julia Mazurova:
Crossing boundaries: the role of language and space in (re)shaping identity of
ethnic Georgian teenagers in Moscow

F Christina Brandenberger and Christoph Hottiger: 
Defining the Boundaries of Exhibits in Science Centres - Between Architecture
and Visitors’ Usage

G Ekaterina Egorova:
Mountain Scenario in Alpine Route Directions

H Karina Frick:
Public Valediction: Grief in Virtual Space

I David Paul Gerards:
The so-called partitive article in Old Iberoromance

J Heiko Hausendorf, Marcel Näf, Kyoko Sugisaki, Nicolas Wiedmer:
The Zurich Postcard Corpus (ZPC): 15,000 Ways to overcome Spatial Boundaries

K Kenan Hochuli:
Interaction at markets

L Johannes Kabatek:
Differential object marking in Spanish: Emergence and tendencies of the
current system

M Michele Loporcaro, Diego Pescarini, Tania Paciaroni, Alice Idone, Serena
Romagnoli:
The Zurich database of agreement in Italo-Romance

N Nathalie Meyer:
Massively Multimodal Communication and Space: A Case Study of Video Game
Livestreaming

O Peter Ranacher, Curdin Derungs, Balthasar Bickel, Robert Weibel:
Geographic isolation and morphological richness of languages in South-Eastern
Asia

P Barbara Sonnenhauser and Martin Junge:
Description, usage and origin - The Supine in Slovene

Q Elisabeth Stark, Beat Siebenhaar, Simone Ueberwasser, Samuel Felder,
Franziska Stuntebeck:
Individuals in WhatsApp Communication: Aspects of Accommodation – Variation in
Time

R Antonia Steger:
Lingering in Public. Interactive Practices of Spatial Production on Urban
Squares in Zurich

S Teodora Vukovic:
Determination, definite article use in Torlak dialects

Thursday, 27. April:

09:15:
Keynote Talk: Dan Montello 
The Cognition of Boundaries and Regions in Geography and Geographic
Information Science

10:45:
Input Talk Session 4: Frans Gregersen
Changing relationships between cities and their surroundings - with special
reference to dialect levelling and language mixing

11:30:
Jürg Fleischer 
Diffusion of (morpho)syntactic features in Continental West Germanic: do
traditional dialect areas play a role?

14:00:
Veton Matoshi 
Variation of clitic doubling in Albanian dialects

14:30:
Sara Matrisciano
Urbanitas vs. Rusticitas: A linguistic-ideologically charged differential as
sociocultural demarcation and valorisation strategy

15:00:
Li-Fang Lai, Shelome Gooden
Language ideologies and shifting boundaries: a case study of Yami diphtongs
(ay) and (aw)

16:00:
Péter Jeszenszky, Philipp Stoeckle, Elvira Glaser, Robert Weibel
Analysing the Effects of Geographic Factors on Syntax Variation in Individual
and Aggregate Phenomena of Swiss German 

Friday, 28. April:

09:00:
Workshop: Inferring and Visualizing Boundaries from Empirical Data
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/en/veranstaltungen/workshops/2017/boundaries/workshop.h
tml

09:00:
Excursion: Hiking from Maggia to Aurigeno
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/en/veranstaltungen/workshops/2017/boundaries/Excursion.
html





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