LINGUIST List 21.2629 Thu Jun 17 2010 Calls: Lang Doc, Socioling, Typology, Uralic/Germany Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Beata Wagner-Nagy, Uralic Languages and Multilingualism: Contexts and manifestations in a language family Message 1: Uralic Languages and Multilingualism: Contexts and manifestations in a language family Date: 15-Jun-2010 From: Beata Wagner-Nagy <beata.wagner-nagyuni-hamburg.de> Subject: Uralic Languages and Multilingualism: Contexts and manifestations in a language family E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Uralic Languages and Multilingualism: Contexts and manifestations in a language family Date: 02-Jun-2011 - 04-Jun-2011 Location: Hamburg, Germany Contact Person: Beata Wagner-Nagy Meeting Email: multiling.uralicuni-hamburg.de Web Site: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/multilingualism.html Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology Language Family(ies): Uralic Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: Uralic languages and multilingualism: contexts and manifestations in a language family The Department of Uralic Studies of the University of Hamburg is pleased to announce the conference Uralic languages and multilingualism, to be held from 2-4 June, 2011. Description For speakers of Uralic languages the phenomenon of bi- or multilingualism has been commonplace for a long time. Not only numerically, but also regarding the diversity of constellations in terms of interaction contexts and purposes, prestige and legal status (involving also literacy vs. oral tradition), the Uralic languages and dialects represent varied cases of multilingualism. Within the frame of language contact studies, the problems were traditionally addressed from the langue perspective. Research primarily focused on borrowings at different linguistic levels, i.e. either in lexicon or in grammar. Socio-linguistic investigations and (or, in the combination with) descriptions of the patterns of multilingual communication from a discourse analytic perspective are rather exceptional. The conference aims therefore to encourage new approaches on multilingualism in Uralic idioms. Confirmed keynote speakers Johanna Laakso, University of Vienna: 'Language contact in space and time: Perspectives and pitfalls in diachronic contact linguistics'. Anna Fenyvesi, University of Szeged: 'Minority Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia: Schoolchildren's attitudes to their languages (minority vs. majority vs. EFL) and the teaching of these languages in their schools'. Call For Papers We welcome papers dealing with both theoretical and empirical aspects of multilingualism involving at least one Uralic language or dialect. Contributions are expected to be based either on new data or new approaches of analysis. Possible subject areas are: - development and manifestations of multilingualism in the Uralic language family; - socio-linguistic factors determining language/dialect choice including language prestige, legal status and language policy, language or dialect endangerment; - structural and pragmatic changes as an effect of multilingualism. The conference languages are English and German. Submission of abstracts Contributions are invited for 20-minute oral presentations to be followed by a 10-minute discussion each. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (bibliography excluded) and should be sent electronically in word (doc or rtf) AND pdf format to the address of the organizing committee multiling.uralicuni-hamburg.de with the subject heading "Multilingualism". Abstracts must be anonymous. Name(s) of authors, e-mail address(es) and affiliation(s) should be sent in a separate document. The abstracts will be evaluated. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 10, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent out at the latest by January 10, 2011. The book of abstracts will be published on the conference website at http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/multilingualism.html Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.