German Abroad 3.

Contact Varieties of German abroad

The third German Abroad Conference took place at the University of Erfurt from March 8 to 10, 2018 under the title “Contact Varieties of German Abroad”.

The conference focused on presentations dealing with contact processes and results in various oral or written language behavior domains on the morphosyntactic, lexical-semantic or pragmatic level and could be assigned to one of the following thematic focuses:

• Language contact situations and phenomena as well as bilingual communicative practices in their dynamics with regard to German-speaking groups outside the German-speaking area;
• Contact-induced variation or contact variety as a theme or as a factor in German/German as foreign language/German as second language lessons or in German-language lessons abroad;
• Language settings and language perceptions with regard to contact varieties of German.

You can find more detailed information on the conference website .

Invited speakers

Prof. Dr. Claudia Maria Riehl: Sprachkontakt und Spracherosion: Perspektiven der vergleichenden Sprachinselforschung

Prof. Dr. Hermann Scheuringer: Die legendären Fiaker von Czernowitz – Mehrsprachigkeitssituationen mit Deutsch im östlichen Europa gestern und heute

Prof. Dr. Cleo V. Altenhofen: Das hunsrückisch Hochdeutsch oder das hochdeutsche Hunsrückisch? Entfaltungen der Mittelfeld-Sprache im Kontakt zwischen deutschen Varietäten in Brasilien

Organization

• Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes
• Dr. Bianka Burka-Rauhut
• Renáta Péter-Szabó, M.A.

Organized by the Chair of German Linguistics and the Research Centre for Interculturality and Multilingualism (FIM) at the University of Erfurt

as part of the International Research Network for Intercultural German Studies (IFNIG)