Summer 2021
Anthropological Linguistics: Insights into Language and Culture
The departmental seminar series will take place in the summer 2021 due to the corona pandemic in a digital format. Tuesdays 6:00 pm -7:15 pm Uhr, via Zoom Meeting.
| 20. April | Susanne Mohr (NTNU Trondheim) The meaning of I love you: a multimodal analysis of the representation of South African Sign Language on social media |
| 27.April | Alexander Yao Cobbinah (USP São Paulo) Emotionen und Kultur in der Casamance |
| 04. May | Ellen Hurst-Harosh (University of Cape Town) Slang, modernity and identity – global connections in the language of African youth |
| 11. May | Sambulo Ndlovu (Great Zimbabwe University/JGU Mainz) Partial homophony and predictability in lexicalising S'ncamtho and Ndebele slang |
| 18. May | Svenja Völkel (JGU Mainz) Die sprachliche Kodierung von Sozialstruktur und Personenkonzept im Tonganischen |
| 25. May | Anne Storch (Universität zu Köln) Nacht: Über eine Linguistik des Verbringens |
| 08. June | Maren Rüsch (Universität zu Köln/GU Frankfurt) Einblicke in die Sprachsozialisation in Ostafrika |
| 22. June | Shuichiro Nakao (Osaka University) Convivial multilingualism as a modern African ethos: Cases of East African non-Arab Arabophone societies |
| 29. Juni | Maud Devos (RMCA, Tervuren) tba |
| 06. July | Sara Petrollino (Leiden University) Cattle appearance and categorisation in Ethiopia |
| 13. July | Jan Knipping (JGU Mainz) Muchope, Musheshe, Mucholi: Othering und Essentialisierungen in Uganda |