LINGUIST List 17.1767
Sun Jun 11 2006
Calls: Romance Langs/Netherlands;Historical Ling/Germany
Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows
<kevinlinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Leo
Wetzels,
Going Romance 20th Symposium on Romance Linguistics
2. Gisella
Ferraresi,
German Linguistic Society
Message 1: Going Romance 20th Symposium on Romance Linguistics
Date: 09-Jun-2006
From: Leo Wetzels <w.wetzelschello.nl>
Subject: Going Romance 20th Symposium on Romance Linguistics
Full Title: Going Romance 20th Symposium on Romance Linguistics Short Title: GR
Date: 07-Dec-2006 - 09-Dec-2006 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Contact Person: Leo Wetzels Meeting Email: w.wetzelslet.vu.nl (discourse workshop) no later than September 16, 2006. Only PDF files will be accepted. One copy of the abstract should be anonymous both in the body of the text and the filename, while another copy should be headed by the name of the author(s) and affiliation. Please make sure all fonts and figures are correctly rendered. Also attach a separate file containing: title, author's name and address, affiliation and e-mail address. Please indicate whether your paper is intended for the general session, or for one of the workshops, by mentioning 'general session' or 'workshop X' in the header of the abstract. Papers not conforming to these requirements cannot be taken into consideration.
Workshop Loan Phonology Some of the Romance languages, especially Spanish, Portuguese, and French, are currently spoken on various continents, where they have been in contact with the original languages for many centuries. The (sometimes massive) adaptation of Romance loanwords in the original languages shows how languages with a different (often much smaller) phoneme inventory merges, or fails to merge, sounds of the donor languages, and may provide evidence for the way the native inventory is represented. On the prosodic level, adaptations have taken place between the stress-accent systems of the Romance languages and the different word-prosodic systems (stress-accent, non-stress accent, or tonal) of the local languages, with any of three possible outcomes: in some cases mixed systems emerged, in other cases the system of the borrowing language was changed, and in still others the system of the donor language was adapted to the prosody of the borrowing language. For this workshop, papers are invited that shed light on the principles behind these borrowing strategies or on other issues that relate to the phenomenon of phonological grammars in contact.
Workshop Political discourse in the mass-media: analysing strategies of (self-) representation Two perspectives can be taken on political discourse in the mass-media. One can look at what politicians do when they speak in/for the media, such as the self-representation of the politician (discursive ethos) in interviews and debates, or reflect on discursive genres, styles and rhetorical devices/strategies. One can also study what journalists do with the politicians' discourse and raise the issue of the representation of politicians and of their discourse in the media (denomination, predication, quotation/reported speech). The linguistic and argumentative analysis of (self-) representation in discourse leads to reflection on and questions about social and cultural aspects of discourse, and about some features of the modern media (blurred line between public and private, polarization, conversationalization). Preference will be given to studies of current political/journalistic discourse.
Message 2: German Linguistic Society
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Date: 09-Jun-2006
From: Gisella Ferraresi <gisella.ferraresigermanistik.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: German Linguistic Society
Full Title: German Linguistic Society Short Title: DGfS
Date: 28-Feb-2007 - 02-Mar-2007 Location: Siegen, Germany Contact Person: Gisella Ferraresi Meeting Email: gisella.ferraresigermanistik.uni-hannover.de
IMPORTANT DATES: Juli 31, 2006: deadline for abstracts September 01, 2006: notification of acceptance February 28 - March 02, 2007: Workshop in Siegen (Germany)
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