On May 15and 16 2014, SoMu will be hosting its first symposium on the topic "Multilingualism, Identities and Language Ideologies". The symposium will take place at the University of Mainz (Fakultätssaal, Philosophicum).
Thursday, 15 May 2014
08.45 - 09.00
Opening
09.00 - 10.00
Reetta Toivanen (Helsinki): On ethics and engagements: on the methods in field research
10.00 - 10.30
Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.45
Svenja Kranich (Mainz): Intercultural contact through translation: "Shining-through" of pragmatics and stylistic features
Nora Kruse (Mainz): Zenta Maurina's feelings towards her homeland - the Latvian exile writer's autobiographical trilogy from a systemic-functional point of view
11.45 - 13.30
Lunch
13.30 - 14.45
Yvonne Hendrich (Mainz): The apotheosis of Europe as a reinvented homeland in "Desterro" by Luís S. Krausz
Caroline Hornstein-Tomic (Zagreb): Imaginaries of "home", "homeland" and "destination" in biographic narratives of remigrants to Croatia
14.45 - 15.15
Coffee Break
15.15 - 16.30
Frederik Bissinger (Mainz/Kaunas): Swedish in Germany: analyzing language ideology in social media
Maren Gockel (Mainz/Kaunas): Low German in North Rhine-Westphalia: an interview study
19.00
Dinner
Friday, 16 May 2014
09.00 - 10.15
Jūratė Ruzaitė (Kaunas): Broadening the horizons of Linguistic Landscapes: multiple approaches to multilingual signs
Ieva Markauskaite, Vitalijus Kodzis, Arune Sulcaite (Mainz/Kaunas): The Linguistic Landscape in Klaipeda, Palanga and Kaunas
10.15 - 10.45
Coffee Break
10.45 - 11.45
Zarina Rakhmanova (Mainz/Kaunas): The Linguistic Landscape of a "Russian" neighborhood: a case study of Brighton Beach in New York City
End
11.45 - 13.30
Lunch