Conference Strategies of Language Variation: Transcultural Perspectives 2015
Vienna, 24-25 April 2015
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