5th Urban Language Seminar: Industrialization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China and Europe
09/07/2007 - 09:00
9 - 11 July 2007
Leiden, Netherlands
Convenor: Marinus van de Berg and Vincent van Heuven.
Organized by: LUCL/ IIAS/ NWO
Contact: Martina van den Haak, m.van.den.haak@let.leidenuniv.nl
The project, Industralization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China and Europe (ILCI) aims to document the changing language situation in urban centres, and to account for the interaction between industrialization, the urban vernaculars or regional languages, the modern standard language, and the dialects of urban immigrants. As part of the project a seminar will be organized in Leiden, the Netherlands.
The seminar is the 5th in a series of international conferences on methodological and theoretical questions of urban sociolinguistics. The seminar brings together specialists from various Chinese and Western universities who document the social dynamics of the changing Chinese and European language situations.
A special session will be devoted to the study of overseas Chinese communities, and the migratory situation in places such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, and various European countries.
Special emphasis is given to identity formation processes under conditions of rapid industrialization. We expect these contributions to help in the formulation of an explanatory and predictive model for language maintenance, language spread, and language shift, which in turn can function as a basis for the formulation of an empirically well founded language system theory, and national language policies.
For more information, please visit http://www.iias.nl/ilci
Should you have any questions regarding the seminar, please do not hesitate to contact Martina van den Haak by email m.van.den.haak@let.leidenuniv.nl.
Please send your name, title and organization to m.van.den.haak@let.leidenuniv to register if you would like to attend the seminar.
Participation is free of charge. Please note that lunch will not be provided.