LINGUIST List 21.2924 Thu Jul 15 2010 Calls: General Ling, Socioling/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.    Doris Stolberg, 2 Tagung Deutschlands Koloniallinguistik Message 1: 2 Tagung Deutschlands Koloniallinguistik Date: 14-Jul-2010 From: Doris Stolberg <stolbergids-mannheim.de> Subject: 2 Tagung Deutschlands Koloniallinguistik E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 2 Tagung Deutschlands Koloniallinguistik Short Title: DKL 2 Date: 30-Sep-2010 - 01-Oct-2010 Location: Mannheim, Germany Contact Person: Doris Stolberg Meeting Email: stolbergids-mannheim.de Web Site: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/lexik/tagung_kolonialling Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 17-Aug-2010 Meeting Description: The Conference 'Language contact and linguistics in the former German colonies' (2nd Conference on Germany's Colonial Linguistics) takes place at the Institut für deutsche Sprache in Mannheim on September 30 - October 1, 2010. Description During the German colonial era, roughly between 1884 and 1914, German administrative officials, missionaries, settlers and traders came into contact with a previously unknown extent of linguistic diversity and 'foreignness' that most of them were not prepared to encounter. The First Conference on Germany's Colonial Linguistics (Unversity of Bremen, 2009) initiated a critical acclaim of the colonial-era descriptions of the languages of Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania, Micronesia, New Guinea, and Samoa. The Second Conference on Germany's Colonial Linguistics focusses on the investigation of how this new linguistic universe was explored. Special attention will be paid to language interaction and contact leading to long- term effects (e.g. borrowing). A special context of language contact arose from the fact that the German language came into contact with an exceptionally large number of other languages within a geographically limited area. This setting had specific consequences for linguistic interactions and decisions on language policy that is not easily compared to any other sociolinguistic constellation within the history of German. A variable use of German in administration, missions, and schools resulted in diverging forms of language interaction and language policies. The mutual impact on the languages involved has not been investigated adequately to date. The conference language is German; papers may be held in German or English. Further information http://www.ids-mannheim.de/lexik/tagung_kolonialling/ Contact Doris Stolberg stolbergids-mannheim.de Institut für Deutsche Sprache Postfach 10 16 21 D-68016 Mannheim Call For Papers Papers are invited on linguistic topics relating to the German colonial era. We particularly welcome presentations focussing on contact-induced linguistic interference between German and the languages of the former German colonies, investigating possible factors that lead to variance in linguistic outcomes. The conference language is German; papers may be held in German or English. Extended Deadline: Please note that the deadline for abstracts has been extended. Abstracts (max. 350 words excl. references) may be submitted to stolbergids-mannheim.de by August 17, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by September 1, 2010. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Jul-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.