Conference Information

Full Title:	Metaling: Discourse on Language Contact & Globalization

Location:	Greifswald, Germany
Start Date:	30-Jun-2011 - 02-Jul-2011
Contact:	Jürgen Spitzmüller
Meeting Email:	click here to access email
Meeting Description:	Within the framework of the Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG3), a thematic panel is organized on 'Metalinguistic Discourse on Language Contact and Globalization'. The panel particularly focuses on the following questions: - Which aspects of globalization surface in metalinguistic discourse? What are the 'limits of awareness' concerning contact phenomena? - To what degree is metalinguistic discourse an index of prescriptive linguistic practices? - What is the role of purism and related linguistic practices in standardization and re-standardization procedures? - What is the influence of purism and related practices on language change? Are there methodologically sound procedures for measuring such an influence? - How is globalization itself discursively constructed? Which role do language ideologies play in this construction? - How can we delimit the process (or the concept) of globalization historically? When does globalization 'start'? When do people start to talk about it, and how does this discourse evolve? - Is globalization itself a global (discursive) phenomenon? - What are the analogies and the differences between the contemporary contact-under-'globalization' situation and other historical cases (e.g., of vehicular languages such as French, Spanish, Greek koine, etc.)?
Linguistic Subfield:	Sociolinguistics
LL Issue:	21.4768

This is a session of the following meeting: 3rd Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization

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