35.3112, Calls: Migration Onomastics: Personal Names in the Context of Migration Movements // Migrationsonomastik: Personennamen im Kontext von Wanderungsbewegungen

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Subject: 35.3112, Calls: Migration Onomastics: Personal Names in the Context of Migration Movements // Migrationsonomastik: Personennamen im Kontext von Wanderungsbewegungen

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Date: 04-Nov-2024
From: Anne Rosar [rosar at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Migration Onomastics: Personal Names in the Context of Migration Movements // Migrationsonomastik: Personennamen im Kontext von Wanderungsbewegungen


Full Title: Migration Onomastics: Personal Names in the Context of
Migration Movements // Migrationsonomastik: Personennamen im Kontext
von Wanderungsbewegungen

Date: 29-Sep-2025 - 01-Oct-2025
Location: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Anne Rosar
Meeting Email: migrationsonomastik at adwmainz.de
Web Site:
https://www.namenforschung.net/tagungen/migrationsonomastik-personennamen-im-kontext-von-wanderbewegungen/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

Meeting Description:

We invite you to the 10th Mainz Name Conference "Migration Onomastics"
which will take place from September 29 to October 1, 2025, at the
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz. The goal is to
examine anthroponyms in connection with linguistic biographies and
migration processes. (A full version of the following Call for Papers
is posted on our website.) // Wir laden zur 10. Mainzer Namentagung
„Migrationsonomastik“ ein, die vom 29.9.–1.10.2025 in der Akademie der
Wissenschaften stattfindet. Ziel ist, Anthroponyme in Verbin-dung mit
Sprachbiografien und Migrationsprozessen zu untersuchen. (Der
vollständige Call for Papers in deutscher Sprache findet sich auf
unserer Website.)

Call for Papers:

Questions related to migration have increasingly become an established
field of linguistic research in recent years (see the 2024
introduction "Migration Linguistics"). The focus is on
multilingualism, variation, and language contact. However, personal
names have so far been overlooked, despite their central role in
migration processes: During migration, given and/or family names are
retained, adapted, or abandoned. Thus, names tell individual or
group-specific migration stories. Anthroponyms can act as markers for
migration, potentially leading to stereotyping or discrimination,
e.g., in the job market or in housing searches. The conference builds
on the results and research perspectives of the international workshop
"Personennamen in Migration" which took place at the University of
Münster in 2023. The aim is to discuss grammatical adaptation
processes, transliteration, situational-pragmatic variation, or
changes in given, family, or both:

- Grammatical Integration Processes: What adaptations have personal
names undergone in language contact areas such as Alsace, Silesia,
Bohemia, or the Sorbian settlement area? How can the geography of
names shed light on migration movements? What changes occur with the
transfer to another script system (e.g., from Cyrillic or Greek to the
Latin alphabet)? How are Chinese characters transferred? Are foreign
graphemes or diacritics retained or replaced (İlkay Gündoğan vs. Ilkay
Gündogan)? What adaptations does the full name undergo when moving
from a three-name to a two-name or even a single-name system? Are
Eastern Slavic patronyms such as Ivanovich/Ivanovna (‘son/daughter of
Ivan’) retained or discarded? How is the typical Chinese name order
(family name before given name) handled? How are gender-marked family
names treated? (e.g., Greek Zervakis/Zervaki) What characteristics do
personal names in German varieties outside Europe exhibit, such as
Namdeutsch in Namibia (Zimmer 2021), Pennsylvania Dutch in North
America, Volga German in Argentina, or Riograndenser Hunsrückisch in
Brazil?

- Situational Variation or Complete Name Change: Under what conditions
does a name change occur during migration? According to what criteria
is a new name chosen? How do characteristics of the source and target
languages and their name inventories influence this decision? What
given names do migrants give their children? Do the old and new names
coexist, are they varied situationally? Do personal names become
in-group/out-group markers? For example, migrants of Russian-German
origin were encouraged to adapt or change their names in the 1980s and
1990s (e.g., Jewgenij > Eugen). The old name often continued to exist
within the family, while the new one was used for external
communication. Which family name do intercultural couples choose upon
marriage? What influence do national or ethnic origin and other social
distinctions like gender have? What family name do children receive?
To what extent does a name change mark a break in a personal
(linguistic) biography?

- Legal or Ideological Framing: To what extent do names act as markers
of ethnicity or migration? Is a name change intrinsically or
extrinsically motivated? What role do strategies to avoid
discrimination play? What language or naming ideologies are evident in
the context of migration? How common are adaptations imposed by
authorities? How do legal regulations influence name changes and name
choices (cf. the mandatory name change when becoming an Icelandic
citizen until 1996)?

Abstracts (maximum 400 words) should be submitted by March 31, 2025,
to migrationsonomastik at adwmainz.de. Presentations (30 minutes + 10
minutes discussion) can be held in German or English.



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