Veranstaltungen
Urban Language Studies - Methodological Questions
International Conference on Chinese and European Sociolinguistics
(4th Urban Language Survey Seminar)
Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany;
July 13th - 15th 2006
Conference organizers: Prof. Dr. Werner Kallmeyer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim) and Prof. Dr. Marinus van den Berg (Leiden University)
Chinese Coordinator: Prof. Dr. XU Daming (Nanjing University)
Program
July 13th - Morning session
| 9.00 | Opening |
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| 9.15 | Introduction Marinus van den Berg / Werner Kallmeyer |
| 9.45 | (Per)Forming culture: The general difference between the occi- dental and the oriental city Rick Dolphijn |
| 10.30 | Coffee brake |
| 11.00 | Approaches to the study of speech communities XU Daming |
| 11.45 | Dynamics of modern Standard German Ludwig M. Eichinger |
July 13th - Afternoon session
| 14.00 | Some new trends in dialect-switching among young people in Shanghai SHU Dingfang |
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| 14.45 | Migrants and their language choices in Shanghai LEI Hongbo |
| 15.30 | Coffee brake |
| 16.00 | Language competition in Shanghai YOU Rujie |
| 16.45 | The study of overseas Chinese Communities GUO Xi |
| 17.30 | The Spread of Mandarin in Malaysia: Evidence in language choices in public domains WANG Xiaomei |
July 14th - Morning session
| 9.00 | German-Turk Youth's language development and communicative social styles Inken Keim / Ibrahim Cindark / Sema Aslan |
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| 9.45 | Linguistic variation and communicative social styles in the German-Italian community in Mannheim Christine Bierbach / Gabriele Birken-Silverman |
| 10.30 | Coffee brake |
| 11.00 | Style vs. Variety: Adolescents in Berlin. A corpus-based presentation with theoretical implications Norbert Dittmar |
| 11.45 | "Bad imitation of Gang-Tai accent" or a new Mandarin style? - Linguistic innovation in the broadcasting media in China ZHANG Qing |
July 14th - Afternoon session
| 14.00 | The study of bilingual language behaviour in major Chinese cities. Sampling verbal interactions in public places Marinus van den Berg |
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| 14.45 | Predicting mutual intelligibility in Chinese dialects from subjective and objective linguistic similarity measures Vincent van Heuven / TANG Chaoju |
| 15.30 | Coffee brake |
| 16.00 | The language situation in the border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen TANG Zhixiang |
| 16.45 | A Survey of the Zhuang Putonghua: the Largest Ethnic Variety of Spoken Chinese YANG Yuguo |
July 15th - Morning session
| 9.00 | The Use of Cantonese in Guangzhou HUANG Guoven |
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| 9.45 | Stability of elements in Dutch dialects Cor van Bree |
| 10.30 | Coffee brake |
| 11.00 | The regional variation of spoken standard German Nina Berend / Stefan Kleiner / Ralf Knöbl |
| 11.45 | Exemplary interactional studies and strategies of generalization Werner Kallmeyer |
| 12.30 | Final discussion |