AG 7: Linguistic variation and change meet anthropology: Investigating ways of speaking in cultural contexts

Mittwoch | Wednesday, 05.03.2025

13:45-14:15

Nico Nassenstein & Svenja Völkel (Mainz)

Introduction – Hymes et al. revisited: ways of speaking in anthropological-linguistic research

14:15-15:15

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Central Queensland University)

Navigating knowledge: the ways of speaking and the dynamics of information source

15:15-15:45

Carsten Levisen (Roskilde)

On ‘true talk’ and its opposites: Ways of speaking in urban Bislama

15:45-16:30

PAUSE | BREAK

16:30-17:00

Svenja Völkel (Mainz)

Formal ways of speaking: developments across Polynesia

17:00-17:30

Nico Nassenstein (Mainz)

Urban ways of speaking in Central Africa: Lingala and its cultural context

17:30-18:00

Discussion: Contexts evoking particular ways of speaking

Donnerstag | Thursday, 06.03.2025

09:00-10:00

James Slotta (University of Texas)

Multilingual practices in a world of unshared languages: on cultures of intelligibility

10:00-10:30

Anke Lensch (Bonn)

“Just wait, thangachchi”: Address terms in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora community

10:30-11:15

PAUSE | BREAK

11:15-12:15

Mariana Payno Gomes & Evani de Carvalho Viotti (São Paulo)

The emergence of the Baré variety of Brazilian Portuguese: a decolonial approach to description and analyses

12:15-12:45

Christian Zimmer & Jones Y. Anam (TU Dortmund)

Cultural-dependent language use within German-speaking minorities in southern Africa

12:45-13:45

MITTAGSPAUSE | LUNCH BREAK

13:45-14:45

Đorđe Božović (Beograd)

On dialect polyphony in Central South Slavic: a case study

14:15-14:45

Discussion: Ways of speaking in situations of language and culture contact

Freitag | Friday, 07.03.2025

11:45-12:15

Adam Głaz (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie)

Brothers and sisters, friends, allies, partners, or rivals? Ukraine and Poland speaking through the fog of war

12:15-12:45

Giulia Cabras (FU Berlin)

Linguistic landscape as “acts of writing”: sinicization, innovations, and speakers’ perception of Tibetan written in urban space

12:45-13:15

Lee Pratchett (Kiel)

Drag queens, the tongue pop, and the development of a translocal queer style

13:15-13:45

Discussion: Ways of communication beyond “speaking”

13:45-14:15

Final discussion: Workshop publication