Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies
(IRICS) Vienna, 9 - 11 december 2005

   
S E K T I O N E N
 

Cultural Dynamism and Language Contact

Section Chair/ Abstracts, suggestions to:

George Echu (University of Yaounde I)

 
ReferentInnen / Speakers   >>
 

ABSTRACT:

In spite of the negative consequences of language contact often highlighted by linguists, this phenomenon is highly productive and innovative, as it gives rise to new forms of expression, new idioms and new cultural realities. In fact, whether through borrowing, loan translation, code switching, code mixing, interference or translation, shades of new realities are brought into a language. Thus, while enriching the language in several ways, the contact phenomenon contributes enormously to cultural dynamism.

 

ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs

  • George Echu (University of Yaounde I, Cameroon): Pidginization of the French Language in Cameroon [ABSTRACT]
  • Ellie Boyadzhieva (South-Western University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria): Language Change and Social Practices - the Mirror Effect [ABSTRACT]
  • Eva Eppler (Roehampton University, London, UK): Weltschmerz -weather and other creative German/English language contact phenomena [ABSTRACT]
  • Julia Epshtein (Wien): Die Arbeitsethik eines russischen Arbeitnehmers im Spiegel der Sprache [ABSTRACT]
  • Stanislava Kostadinova (South-Western University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria): The Consequences of Using English as an International Means of Communication: Its Impact on other Languages and its Inner Change [ABSTRACT]
  • Bernard Mulo Farenkia (Yaoundé / Saarbrücken): Politesse verbale et contact de cultures: les termes d’adresse en français au Cameroun [ABSTRACT]
  • Christiane M. Pabst ( Hochschule Berzsenyi Dániel, Szombathely): Language Contact in the German-Austrian Language Island of Núcleo João Pinheiro (Brazil) [ABSTRACT]
  • Ivanka Sakareva (South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria): Changes in the bulgarian language during the centuries: impact of the different cultures on the language in the past [ABSTRACT]

Innovationen und Reproduktionen in Kulturen und Gesellschaften (IRICS) Wien, 9. bis 11. Dezember 2005

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WEBDESIGN: Peter R. Horn 2005-11-28