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 

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CS 20525 – 75005 Paris

johannes.houben@ephe.sorbonne.fr

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