31.2007, Calls: German, Pennsylvania;German; Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/France

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Subject: 31.2007, Calls: German, Pennsylvania;German; Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/France

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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:17:47
From: Pierre-Yves Modicom [pymodicom.ling at yahoo.fr]
Subject: Rootedness and Acculturation. Experiences from German Immigrant Communities in the USA (1883-1918)

Full Title: Rootedness and Acculturation. Experiences from German Immigrant Communities in the USA (1883-1918) 

Date: 14-Oct-2021 - 16-Oct-2021
Location: Bordeaux, France 
Contact Person: Pierre-Yves Modicom
Meeting Email: pierre-yves.modicom at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Web Site: https://us-germans-bdx.sciencesconf.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): German (deu)
                     German, Pennsylvania (pdc)

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

The era between 1883 and 1918 was a time of uncertainty and self-reflection
for German-Americans and German-speaking communities in the US. The conference
aims at questioning the model of integration at stake for these communities:
Was there a shift between 1883 and 1918, in which an open concept of
integration with regard to cultural, social and political characteristics was
replaced by an assimilation model in which the German-speaking community fully
expected to adapt fully to the framework of the dominant culture? What
function did the discussion about the cultural origins of the German-American
identity play? How did German-Americans position themselves towards concepts
like Americanism, nation, identity and ethnicity or race, which played a major
role in debates on the English-speaking side.

In order to answer these questions, three topics will be considered for the
conference: 1. The rise of German-American historiography; 2. The status and
situation of the German language(s) in the US; 3. The social and political
dimensions of German-American self-comprehension.
Papers addressing any of the three domains listed above are welcome. Section 2
is centered on linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Call for Papers: 

Full call available on: https://us-germans-bdx.sciencesconf.org
** LINGUISTIC SECTION **
The status and situation of the German language(s) in the US (1883-1918)

>From a linguistic point of view, special attention will be devoted to the
situation of the German language as well as German dialects with respect to
the mostly, but not exclusively English-speaking environment of the US.
Contacts with other languages of US may also be taken into consideration in
the discussion. The first dimension is the maintenance and advancement of the
German language in an institutional context sometimes associated with
important tensions concerning language policy: What were the strategies used
to promote the use of German among immigrant communities? How did those groups
react to such initiatives as the Bennet Law in Wisconsin (1889), which was
intended to undermine the position of German at State level?

The second major question is the nature and evolution of what is to be called
“the German language in the US”, especially considering its regional and
dialectal varieties. Can the sociolinguistic situation at the time be defined
as a case of diglossia between “German” and “English”? Or should we assume
cases of triglossia between a German dialect, a more or less standardized
German high variety and English?

What was the role played by the many High and Low German vernaculars spoken in
the US in the crystallisation of regional German-American linguistic
communities? Conversely, what was the influence of the European standard on
the language spoken in the US? The timespan between 1883 and 1918 includes the
final establishment of a homogeneous European high variety, associated with
the names of Konrad Duden and Theodor Siebs, among others. Did this evolution
play a role in the praxis of varieties in America?

These debates also raise important methodological issues. The timespan
considered in the conference is marked by an important production of
newspapers and literature. Are these documents, e.g. local newspapers,
reliable witnesses of regional koineisation and/or standardization? Given the
role of the dichotomy between conceptional scripturality and orality in
language variation, (how) should we take it into consideration in the analysis
of these sources?

We ask that you submit proposals for contributions in the form of a
presentation sketch (max. 500 words) and a short CV (max. 150 words). Working
languages are German and English.

The proposals can be sent to Tristan.Coignard at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr and
Pierre-Yves.Modicom at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr until October 15, 2020 . The
acceptance of the contributions to the conference program will be announced on
January 15, 2021 .

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