Languages in Contact 2012

Hours
DAY TWO: SUNDAY, May 27, 2012
Conference venue: Ośrodek Szkolenia Państwowej Inspekcji Pracy, Wrocław, ul. Mikołaja Kopernika 5
(National Labour Inspectorate Training Centre in Wrocław, 5 Mikołaja Kopernika Street)
9:00 - 10:00
PLENARY SESSION (room 100)
Prof. John R. Rickford
(Stanford University, USA)
Why don’t people in contact talk more like each other? Ecological, ethological (attitudinal/ideological) and other considerations.
SECTION I (room 100)
SECTION II (room 109)
SECTION III (room 110)
Chair: Prof. dr hab. Piotr P. Chruszczewski
Chair: dr Agnieszka Stępkowska
Chair: Prof. Andrei A. Avram
10:00 - 10:30
Anna Zięba (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland) - Linguistic manifestations
of national culture in press
Łukasz Stolarski (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)
- Size-sound symbolism in names of cars
Sándor Czeglédi (University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary) - The "Image of English"
in state-level official English proposals
10:30 - 11:00
Halina Wasilewska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland) - The position
of traditional Yi writing among the scripts of East Asia
Carmen Florina Savu (University of Buchrest, Romania) - More on the rhotic tap
and the implications of its structure
11:00 - 11:30
Mateusz Szal (University of Rzeszów, Poland) - Kanji, hiragana, katakana - the origin
and development of the Japanese writing system
Szymon Napierała (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
- A hypothesis on the catastrophic emergence of syntax and phonetics
Katarzyna Gęborys (The Angeles Silesius State School of Higher Vocational Education
in Wałbrzych, Poland) - The attitude change in legal discourse on the base
of The Treaty of Accession 2003
Mário Pinharanda (University of Macau, China) - Variation and change in the Makista
verb paradigm
11:30 - 12:00
COFFEE BREAK (hall)
12:00 - 13:00
PLENARY SESSION (room 100)
Prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & dr Marcin Kilarski
(Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
Phonetic descriptions of “primitive” languages: What do we learn from history?
Chair: Prof. dr hab. Piotr P. Chruszczewski
13:00 - 13:30
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Prędota (University of Wrocław/Opole University/Polish Academy
of Sciemces, Wroclaw, Poland) - Afrikaans priamels and their Dutch equivalents
13:30 - 14:00
Wojciech Alberski (Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland)
- Selected narrative functions in the process of communication
Chair: dr Agnieszka Stępkowska
Andrea F. Szabó (University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary) - The Discursive
construction of gender in Alice Munro’s fiction of the 1990s and 2000s through
descriptions of clothing
Wiesław Szałaj (Wroclaw, Poland) - Language adaptive operators
Chair: Prof. Andrei A. Avram
Katarzyna Ochman (Wroclaw, Poland) - Rebirth of spoken Latin in the 20th and 21st
centuries – origins, mechanisms and perspectives
Anna Cisło (University of Wrocław/Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw,
Poland) - The Blasket Library: the legacy of the Great Blasket Islanders in their native
language
14:00 - 14:15
CONFERENCE CLOSING (room 100)
Prof. dr hab. Piotr P. Chruszczewski
(University of Wrocław/Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Wąsik
(Rector of the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, Poland)
14:20
LUNCH (canteen, Park Hotel)