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Languages in Contact, 22-23 maja 2010
Call for Papers
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
LANGUAGES IN CONTACT
May 22-23, 2010
venue: Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, Poland
organized by:
Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch
Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław
University of Wrocław
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JAMES A. FOX (Stanford University, USA)
ALFRED F. MAJEWICZ (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
JERZY WEŁNA (Warsaw University, Poland)
PIOTR GĄSIOROWSKI (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
MARCO TAMBURELLI (University College London, U.K.)
RONALD KIM (Adam Mickiewicz University, Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław Poland)
Selected conference topics:
- conceptions about the origin of language and languages
- endangered and vanishing languages
- the ecology of minority languages
- anthropological linguistics
- cultural patterns in discursive practices
- folk-linguistics and folk-anthropology
- mechanisms of language change (and language death)
- the description and classification (genetic, aerial, typological) of the languages of the world
- the ethnography of communication
- studies of pidgin, creole and mixed languages
- the origins and spread of writing systems
- field linguistics
Franz Boas, (1911: 6) “Introduction.” [In:] The Handbook of American Indian Languages. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 40, 1-95.
“Of all aspects of culture, it is a fair guess that language was the first to receive a highly developed form and that its essential perfection is a prerequisite to the development of culture as a whole.”
Edward Sapir, (1937: 155) “Language.” [In:] Edwin A. Seligman (editor-in-chief) Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. Vol. 9; New York: Macmillan, 155-169.
“1. The discipline of linguistics will continue to contribute studies of the history, structure, and use of languages; 2. in other disciplines, linguistic concepts and practices will be qualified, reinterpreted, subsumed, and perhaps sometimes re-diffused in changed form into linguistics; 3. linguistics will remain the discipline for coordinating knowledge about verbal behavior from the viewpoint of language itself.”
Dell H. Hymes, (1962: 13) “The Ethnography of Speaking.” [In:] T. Galdwin, William Sturtevant (eds.) Anthropology and Human Behavior. Washington, D.C.: The Anthropological Society of Washington, 13-53.
“The possibility of insult and of humor based on linguistic choices means that members agree on the underlying rules of speech and on the social meaning of linguistic features.
Susan M. Ervin-Tripp, (1964: 93) “Sociolinguistics.” [In:] Leonard Berkovitz (ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Vol 4. New York: Academic Press, 93-107.
“As culture contact is perhaps the most common vector of culture change, the nature of this contact is often manifested in linguistic change.”
Willam A. Foley, (1997: 384) Anthropological Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
“(…) Linguistic anthropology is a distinct discipline that deserves to be studied for its past accomplishments as much as for the vision of the future presented in the work of a relatively small but active group of interdisciplinary researchers.”
Alessandro Duranti, (1997: 1) Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
“The development of a comprehensive written visual language caused civilization to grow more complex. (…) Literacy gives cultures the privilege of knowing the past.”
Denise Schmandt-Besserat, (2007: 105) When Writing Met Art. From Symbol to Story. Austin: University of Texas Press.
The conference will consist of keynote lectures and parallel paper sessions. The language of the conference will be English.
Selected and reviewed conference papers, after the acceptance of the editor, will be collected and published as one of our book series Philologica Wratislaviensia: Acta et Studia.
Scientific committee:
- Stanisław Prędota (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch; University of Wrocław & Opole University)
- Zdzisław Wąsik (Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław; Kolegium Karkonoskie in Jelenia Góra & Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
- Piotr P. Chruszczewski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch; University of Wrocław & Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław)
- Marcin Suszczynski
- Jacek Mianowski
- Piotr P. Chruszczewski
- Closing date for the submission of abstracts: March 10, 2010
- Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2010
- Registration fee should be sent by: April 15, 2010
Be so kind as to send your abstract in English (of up to 500 words with selected bibliography) by March 10, 2010 to the conference secretary:
Marcin Suszczynski languagesincontact@wsf.edu.pl
Please follow the link to register online ->
Conference fee:
- 390 PLN (98 EUR) (conference materials, coffee breaks, lunch and banquet included)
Account Holder: Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu
Bank: Raiffeisen Bank Polska S. A.
Account No (IBAN): PLN 23 1750 1064 0000 0000 0856 4167
SWIFT Code: RCBWPLPW
Please make sure to include your name and the conference title (Languages in Contact) in the description of the bank transfer.
The conference fee does not include travel and accommodation costs.
Important information:
Contact details:
Conference secretary - Marcin Suszczynski
e-mail: m.suszczynski@wsf.edu.pl
phone: +48 71 395 84 76
Honorary patronage:
- President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch
- Rector of the University of Wrocław
- Rector of the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław
