Dear all,
At the 19th Sociolinguistic Symposium in Berlin (Aug. 2012), we will organize a thematic session on "Conflicts in the city, cities in conflict? Romano-Germanic encounters in the Low Countries".
In this panel, we would like to bring together an international group of experts on Romano-Germanic encounters in the Low Countries, focusing on language contact and language conflict in urban contexts. We welcome papers on both the historical and the present-day situation, from any subfield of sociolinguistics (language policy, language ideology, discourse analysis, language and identity studies, etc.). The languages under discussion are Dutch, French, German and Luxembourgish.
Possible research topics include:
- language legislation and the protection of minority and majority languages
- French as a prestige language in the history of the Low Countries
- migration and language shift, for instance in French Flanders and in Brussels
- multilingualism in the Low Countries: status, corpus and acquisition planning
- Flemish language identities in urban contexts
- language education and education policy
- competing language ideologies and the position of French in Flanders
- language policy and linguistic identities in Luxembourg city
- the German-speaking community as a ‘privileged minority’ in Belgium?
- French as the language of trade and diplomacy in late medieval and early modern urban life
If you are interested in giving a paper, you will find all relevant information on the session and the abstracts (deadline January 31!) in the attached document. If you know somebody who might be interested, please feel free to forward this message.
Good writing!
The organizers
dr. Catharina Peersman (FWO - KU Leuven), dr. Rik Vosters (VUB), dr. Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University)
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