[INDOLOGY] Info on Conference: Strategies of Language Variation: Transcultural Perspectives 2015 Vienna, 24-25 April 2015

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Conference Strategies of Language Variation: Transcultural Perspectives
2015
Vienna, 24-25 April 2015
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/sociolinguistics/

Program

Friday, 24th April
Session I: Thematic Introduction
  CHAIR: Wolfgang DRESSLER
09.30–10.00
Barbara SOUKUP (Vienna)
  Speaker / Author Design from the perspective of synchronic linguistics

10.00–10.30
Manfred GLAUNINGER (Vienna)
  Semiotic aspects of linguistic heterogeneity



Session II: Sanskrit
CHAIR: Gianfranco TERRIBILI
11.30–12.00
Jan HOUBEN (Paris)
  Diglossia as reflected in the Sanskrit Grammarians

  12.00–12.30
Vincent ELTSCHINGER (Vienna)
  Why did the Buddhists adopt Sanskrit?


Session III: Iranian



CHAIR: Jan HOUBEN
14.30–15.00
Chiara BARBATI (Vienna)
Heterogeneity in the language of the Sogdian Diaspora communities

15.00–15.30
Gianfilippo TERRIBILI (Rome)
Language variation and defensive strategies of religious identity:
the case of Dēnkard III and Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature



Saturday, 25th April

Session IV: English and Byzantine Greek
CHAIR: Manfred GLAUNINGER
10.30–11.00
Herbert SCHENDL (Vienna)
Medieval English code‐switching

11.00–11.30
Christian GASTGEBER (Vienna)
Documents of the Patriarchal Chancery:
Aspects of variations relating to the addressees (audience)
11.30–12.00
Andrea CUOMO (Vienna)
Greek manuscripts as a major source for the study of linguistic variation
in Late Byzantium

Session V: Babylonian, Turkish and Arabic
CHAIR: Chiara BARBATI
14.00–14.30
Martina SCHMIDL (Vienna)
The formal, the casual, the personal – the rhetoric of Late‐Babylonian
letters

14.30–15.00
Claudia RÖMER (Vienna)
Modern Turkish texts in flux. On some side effects of the Turkish language
reform

15.00–15.30
Stephan PROCHÁZKA and Ines DALLAJI (Vienna)
Corpus of Tunesian Arabic



*Jan E.M. HOUBEN*

Directeur d’Études

Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite

*École Pratique des Hautes Études*

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

54, rue Saint-Jacques

CS 20525 – 75005 Paris

johannes.houben at ephe.sorbonne.fr

https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben

www.ephe.fr


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