Ehrenschutz: Bundespräsident Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Wissen, Kreativität und Transformationen von Gesellschaften

Patron: President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies

 

H O M E Konferenzablauf  
H O M E

1.3. Sektion:

Re-writing linguistic history – (post)colonial reality on the fringes of linguistic theories

Sektionsleiter | Section chair: Eric A. Anchimbe (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Ort | Place: VHS Brigittenau, Raffaelgasse 11, 1200 Wien, Raum | Room 316  

Freitag | Friday, 7.12. | 7 December || 14:00 – 18:00
14:00
Eric A. Anchimbe (University of Bayreuth, Germany): Introduction and more
14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00
Folorunso Odidi (Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria/University of Bayreuth, Germany):
What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break | Kaffeepause
16:00 – 16:30
Alice Wachira (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany):
On language contact and language use in Kenya
16:30 – 17:00 Frederick Iraki (United States International University Nairobi, Kenya):
Language and political economy: A perspective from Kenya
17:00 – 17:30
Lydia Muthuma (University of Nairobi, Kenya):
Re-writing linguistic history: Nairobi from the vantage point of visual language
17:30 – 18:00
Christina Märzhäuser (University of Munich/Coimbra):
Capeverdean Creole in Lisbon – young generation’s perspective
Samstag | Saturday, 8.12. | 8 December || 09:00 – 18:30
09:00 – 09:30
David C. S. Li (City University of Hong Kong):
Medium-of-instruction-induced code-switching: Evidence from Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan
09:30 – 10:00 Anthony Onyemachi Agwuele (Universität Leipzig, Germany):
Globalisation, dying languages and the futility of saving them
10:00 – 10:30 Eyamba G. Bokamba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Multilingualism as a sociolinguistic phenomenon: An African perspective
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break | Kaffeepause
11:00 – 11:30
Antje Hornscheidt (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany):
Critical postcolonial linguistics and the discursive construction of the (post)colonial self
11:30 – 12:00
Eric A. Anchimbe (University of Bayreuth, Germany):
The place of the English language in the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch | Mittagessen
14:00 – 14:30
Adeyemi Adegoju (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria):
Between the conference arena and the outside linguistic phenomena: Fantasies and realities of the dis/use of African languages
14:30 – 15:00
Inimbom James Akpan (University of Calabar, Nigeria) & Ekaete Evangel Akpan (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria):
Place names in post-colonial Africa: A case study of Ibibiod languages
15:00 – 15:30
Bassey Ekpenyong (Cross River University of Technology Calabar, Nigeria):
Oracy in Nigerian English-based Pidgin as a product of colonial encounter
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break | Kaffeepause
16:00 – 16:30
Rachael O. Bello (Lagos State University, Nigeria):
Literacy, self identity and class eradication and implication for socio-global futures: The Nigerian experience
16:30 – 17:00
Harrison Adeniyi (Lagos State University, Nigeria):
Implementation of language policy in Nigeria: English as a sticking point
17:00 – 17:30
Stephen A. Mforteh (University of Yaounde I, Cameroon):
Colonial languages versus mother tongues: Focus on Cameroon’s educational system
17:30 – 18:00
Erick E. Ekembe (University of Yaounde I, Cameroon):
From input through developing to ‘developed’ systems: An interconnected process in multilinguals’ development in language learning
18:00 – 18:30
Dániel Z. Kádár (B. B. University, Hungary):
What happened to the honorifics? Reconstructing the (post-)colonial collapse of the traditional Chinese honorific system