9th World Conference of Pluricentric Languages

 

9th WORLD CONFERENCE on PLURICENTRIC LANGUAGES - ONLINE

PROGRAMME – July 30, 2021

Download the BOOK of ABSTRACTS

 

DAY 1: Thursday 26 August 2021

CET

 

08:30-08:45

Welcome session

Section 2: The Localisation of Global Media in Pluricentric Language Media

08:45-09:15

01 Keynote: Reglindis DE RIDDER (Stockholm, Sweden): The localisation of children’s television and its sociolinguistic implications in pluricentric language areas

09:15-09:40

02 Lydia HAYES (London/Bristol, UK): Foreign varieties of English in a pluricentric Anglosphere: the case of English dubs on Netflix

09:40-09:55

Discussion

Section 3/1: General section: European pluricentric Languages

09:55-10:15

03 Gerhard EDELMANN (Vienna, Austria): The Status of the Moldovan Language

10:15-10:35

04 Olga GORITSKAYA / Alexandra CHUDAR (Minsk, Belarus): Pluricentric languages in times of political turbulence - the case of Belarusian Russian

10:35-10:55

05 Albana MUCO (Milano, Italy): Diatopically marked phraseological variants of colour in Albanian

10:55-11:10

Discussion

11:10-11:20

Break

Section 1/1: Pluricentric Languages in the Americas: The Pluricentricity of Spanish

11:20-11:50

06 Keynote: Sebastian GREUßLICH (Bonn, Germany): The pluricentricity of Spanish, Spanish in the Americas and mass media – three major topics in interdependency

11:50-12:10

07 Benjamin MEISNITZER / Dennis SCHMECHEL (Leipzig, Germany): Pluricentricity and the Varieties of Spanish in Central America

12:10-12:30

08 Juan THOMAS (Utica, US): What taboo Anglicisms say about U.S. Spanish

12:30-12:50

09 Soledad CHAVEZ FAJARDO (Santiago, Chile): The (ln)visible (Hispanic) American in Hispanic Lexicography

12:50-13:10

10 Felix BOKELMANN (Munich, Germany): Phenomena of Variation in the Pronunciation Standard of Argentine Spanish

13:10-13:30

Discussion

13:30-14:00

Lunch Break

Section 1/1 cont.: Pluricentric Languages in the Americas: The Pluricentricity of Spanish

14:00-14:20

11 Meredith CHURCH (Boulder, US): Andean Spanish, vowel devoicing, language contact

14:20-14:40

12 Fabiola VARELA-GARCIA (Eau-Claire, US): A unique phonetic feature of 18th century. Spanish in the United States. Isleño revitalization: Language policy and planning of 18th century Spanish 

14:40-14:50

Discussion

 

                     

 

Section 1/2: Pluricentric Languages in the Americas:
Indigenous Pluricentric Languages of the Americas

14:50-15:20

13 Keynote: Liliana SÁNCHEZ (Chicago, US): Is Quechua II a pluricentric language family?

15:20-15:50

14 Keynote: Cilene RODRIGUES (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): Pluricentricity and Migration within Tupi-Guarani Languages

15:50-16:10

Discussion

16:10-16:30

Break


Section 1/3: Pluricentric Languages in the Americas: The Pluricentricity of Portuguese

16:30-17:00

15 Keynote: Augusto SOARES DA SILVA (Braga, Portugal): Portuguese, pluricentricity and Brazilian Portuguese: A case of a reverted asymmetry?

17:00-17:20

16 Maria Eugenia Lammoglia DUARTE / Christina A. GOMES / M. da CONCEIÇÃO DE PAIVA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): Beyond the dichotomy Dominant and Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages: The case of Brazilian Portuguese

17:20-17:40

17 Raquel Meister Ko FREITAG (Aracaju, Brazil): Mobility and social identification: Effects of higher education in grammatical patterns of Brazilian Portuguese

17:40-18:00

18 Dinah CALLOU / Carolina SERRA / Aline FARIAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): On /r/-deletion in coda position: regional diversity in Brazilian Portuguese

18:00 -18:15

Discussion

18:15-18:35

19 Christina GOMES / Marcelo LOPES de MELO (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):-Linguistic and Social Patterns of Sound Variation in two Contemporary regional varieties of European and Brazilian Portuguese

18:35-18:55

20 Silvia VIEIRA-RODRIGES (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): Morphosyntactic Variation In Mozambican Portuguese

18:55-19:00

Discussion

Section 3/4-Part 1: General section: Aspects of a theory of pluricentric languages

19:00-19:20

21 Stefan DOLLINGER (Vancouver, Canada): Theory as the ultimate method, sine-qua-non: on the presuppositions of sociolinguistic theory, pluricentricity theory and anti-pluricentric musings

19:20-19:30

Discussion

19:30

END of DAY 1

 

DAY 2: Friday 27 August 2021

Section 3/2: General section: Hungarian as a pluricentric language

CET

 

08:30-08:50

22 István CSERNICSKÓ / Anita MÁRKU, / Réka MÁTÉ, (Berehove, Ukraine): The (online) dictionary of pluricentric Hungarian

08:50-09:10

23 István CSERNICSKÓ / Kornélia HIRES-LÁSZLÓ / Eniko TÓTH-OROSZ (Berehove, Ukraine): The status of the secondary centers of the Hungarian language in the light of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

09:10-09:30

24 Máté HUBER (Szeged, Hungary): English and German as pluricentric languages in the Hungarian education system

09:30-09:50

25 Zoltán KARMASCI / Réka MÁTÉ / Eniko SASS / Krisztina KISS (Berehove, Ukraine): The appearance of the mother tongue of the Hungarian minority in the linguistic landscape of Transcarpathian tourism

09:50-10:05

Discussion

10:05-10:20

Break

Section 3/3: General section: Different aspects of pluricentricity in different languages

10:20-10:40

26 Fabienne KORB (Saarbrücken, Germany): The Representation of Pluricentricity in German Students’ Digital Language Portraits

10:40-11:00

27 Kelen FONYUY (Bamenda, Cameroon): An appraisal of digital communication impact on Cameroonian university students' academic writing in pluricentric English

11:00-11:10

Discussion

Section 3/4-2: General section: Aspects of a theory of pluricentric languages cont.

11:10-11:40

28 Keynote: Rudolf MUHR (Graz, Austria): Pluricentricity, linguistic self-determination and diversity struggling with centralisation and revisionist tendencies: An overview of current developments

11:40-12:00

29 Aditi GHOSH / Rajeshwari DATTA (Kolkata, India): Problematic approaches towards the Non-dominant Languages and Language Varieties in India

12:00-12:20

Discussion

12:20-13:00

Lunch break

13:00-13:20

30 Benjamin MEISNITZER / Dennis SCHMECHEL (Leipzig, Germany): Pluricentricity, Polycentricity and Dialects: Challenges for the study of pluricentric languages – the example of Ibero-Romance

13:20-13:40

31 Karine GAUVIN (Edmundston, Canada): French Standardization in Acadia (New Brunswick, Canada)

13:40-14:00

Discussion

14:00-15:00

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE WGNDV

15:00-16:00

SOCIAL EVENT – Chatting with colleagues and exchanging ideas

16:00

END of DAY 2 – END of the CONFERENCE