LINGUIST List 21.3875 Sun Oct 03 2010 Calls: 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.    Sebastian Knospe, Metaling: Discourse on Language Contact & Globalization Message 1: Metaling: Discourse on Language Contact & Globalization Date: 01-Oct-2010 From: Sebastian Knospe <sebastian.knospeuni-greifswald.de> Subject: Metaling: Discourse on Language Contact & Globalization E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Metaling: Discourse on Language Contact & Globalization Date: 30-Jun-2011 - 02-Jul-2011 Location: Greifswald, Germany Contact Person: Jürgen Spitzmüller Meeting Email: spitzmuellerds.uzh.ch Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2010 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.)? Call For Papers The organizers of the thematic panel welcome particularly corpus-based and methodologically innovative approaches to issues such as those listed in the session description. Proposals for 30-minute presentations (including discussion), comprising a 500-word (maximum) abstract, should be submitted electronically to the organizers of the thematic panel by November 15, 2010. Spiros A. Moschonas, University of Athens, smoschonmedia.uoa.gr Jürgen Spitzmüller, University of Zurich, spitzmuellerds.uzh.ch Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Oct-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.