Topic: When the German language goes astray - On the problem of linguistic-cultural crossovers
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes, University of Erfurt, Chair of German Linguistics
Time: Friday, 25.03.2022, 3:00 p.m.
Place: TU Ilmenau,Curie Building, Curie Lecture Hall, Weimarer Str. 25
ATTENTION: THIS LECTURE WILL EXCEPTIONALLY NOT TAKE PLACE IN THE FARADAYBAU
Admission: 5 Euro
Pre-registration is mandatory: www.tu-ilmenau.de/buergercampus
Sayings like "That is me sausage", "Take it veggie!" or "You hear what you want" are increasingly finding their way into our daily linguistic world. In the course of a communication reality increasingly characterized by internationalization and globalization, linguistic and cultural transitions, blending and cross-fading are playing an ever greater role. In different types of texts, for example in advertising or in the cyber world, such linguistic border crossings are celebrated with particular virtuosity - keyword "Denglish" - and authors see great creative potential in them.
In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens' Campus, Prof. Csaba Földes from the Department of German Linguistics at the University of Erfurt deals with the field of tension between the "own" and the "foreign" in contemporary German and describes constellations in which elements of two or more languages meet and produce something completely new, a "third quality". The scientist, who heads the Research Center for Interculturality and Multilingualism at the University of Erfurt, explains the range of such dynamic language-communicative processes using numerous current examples.
Contact:
Dr. Uwe Geishendorf
Central Institute for Education
+49 3677 69-4675
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de
