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

Nico Nassenstein & Svenja Völkel (U Mainz)

13:45 – 14:15	Nico Nassenstein & Svenja Völkel (University of 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 University) True talk: On South Pacific ways of not misleading others
15:45 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00	Svenja Völkel (University of Mainz) Formal ways of speaking: Developments across Polynesia
17:00 – 17:30	Nico Nassenstein (University of Mainz) Urban ways of speaking in Central Africa: Lingala and its cultural context
17:30 – 18:00	Discussion: Contexts evoking particular ways of speaking

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 (University Bonn) “Just wait, thangachchi”: Address terms in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora community
10:30 – 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15	Mariana Payno Gomes & Evani de Carvalho Viotti (University of 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	Lunch break
13:45 – 14:15	Đorđe Božović (University of Belgrade) 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

11:45 – 12:15	Adam Głaz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University) Brothers and sisters, friends, allies, partners, or rivals? Ukraine and Poland speaking through the fog of war
12:15 – 12:45	Giulia Cabras (Freie Universität Berlin) Linguistic landscape as “acts of writing”: Sinicization, innovations, and speakers’ perception of Tibetan written in urban space
12:45 – 13:15	Lee Pratchett (University of 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