4-0920 FORTY YEARS AFTER: TIDEMARKS, LEGACIES, AND FUTURES OF RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CONTACT LANGUAGES

Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Paul B Garrett (Temple University)

Chairs: Janina Fenigsen (Northern Arizona University)

Discussants: Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania), Christine Jourdan (Concordia University ), Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago) and John R. Rickford (Stanford University )

13:45

From the Margins to the Center: Forty Years Later, Are All Languages Contact Languages?

Paul B Garrett (Temple University)

14:00

CONTACT Languages, Nationalism, and LANGUAGE Heritage Among Deaf Signed Languages

Barbara C LeMaster (California State University, Long Beach (CSULB))

14:15

Language Contact, Syncretic Speech and Purism In Tlaxcala, Mexico

Jacqueline Messing (University of South Florida)

14:30

Proud to Be a Bajan: Independence Day Folksongs In a Caribbean Classroom

Jef Van der Aa (University of Jyväskylä)

14:45

Naija Laughs: Stand-up Comedy and the Nigerian Pidgin Nation

Rudolf P Gaudio (Purchase College, State University of New York)

15:00

Discussant

Christine Jourdan (Concordia University )

15:15

Discussant

Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago)

15:30

Break

15:45

(Don't) Read My Lips: Debates over language contact and boundaries in the online circulation of sign language texts

Erika G Hoffmann-Dilloway (Oberlin College)

16:00

The Salad of jopará: Moral Panics, Verbal Art and the Indexical Creation of Spanish-Guarani Contact Varieties In Paraguay

John F Thiels (University of Michigan)

16:15

Transidiomatic Floaters: Communicative Mutations In the Digital Age

Marco Jacquemet (University of San Francisco)

16:30

Mixed Feelings: Hybridity, Enregisterment and the Autonomy of Two Creoles

Janina Fenigsen (Northern Arizona University)

16:45

Discussant

John R. Rickford (Stanford University )

17:00

Discussant

Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania)

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