Languages in Contact


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University of Wroclaw, Institute of English Studies
Częstochowa, ul. Zbierskiego 2/4

Languages in Contact is an international conference that aims at bringing together researchers of language, understood as social human behavior. The conference organizers wish to address the need to investigate minority speech communities, small, endangered and vanishing languages, pidgins and creoles, as well as to narrow down the scope of the study of cultural practices performed by means of language.

The conference seeks to reach the following goals:

  • Developing the methodological apparatus for anthropological and contact linguistics,as well as promoting these innovative disciplines in Poland.
  • Integrating the international scientific milieu focused on anthropological linguistics.
  • Promoting the study of minority, small and vanishing languages among young linguists.

Organized by:

  • Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw Branch, Poland
  • Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland
  • Israel Study Center, Israel
  • Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria
  • Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta
  • Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • International Communicology Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
  • Institute of English Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland
  • College of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

  • Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Faydra Shapiro (Israel Study Center, Israel) \
  • Anja Tippner (Hamburg University, Germany)
  • Tomasz P. Krzeszowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  • Eliyahu Lizorkin-Eyzenberg (Israel Study Center, Israel)
  • Eeva Sippola (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Aleksandra R. Knapik (Committee for Philology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw Branch, Poland)
  • Yeshaya Gruber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

The conference seeks to establish new ground in the following areas:

  • conceptions about the origin of language and languages
  • small, endangered and vanishing languages, cultures and literatures
  • the ecology of small, minority and endangered languages, cultures and literatures
  • anthropological linguistics,
  • cultural patterns in discursive practices,
  • folk-linguistics and folk-anthropology,
  • mechanisms of language change (and language death),
  • the description and classification (genetic, aerial, typological) of the languages of the world,
  • the semiotics and ethnography of communication,
  • studies of pidgin, creole and mixed languages,
  • the origins and spread of writing systems,
  • field linguistics.





Źródło:  https://www.wsf.edu.pl/aktualnosci,Languages_in_Contact_2018.xml

Aktualizacja:  2018-03-15 21:33:44