Convenor: Dr Falco Pfalzgraf

The Language and Linguistics Section of the CAGCR facilitates lectures, seminars and workshops concerning the contacts between the English and German language in the widest sense.

This includes for instance:

• the influence of the English language on the German language and vice versa
• the influence of the English language on Austrian and Swiss German and vice versa
• Linguistic purism in England and Germany
• Linguistic purism and national identity

A series of lectures on these subject areas is currently being organised for the academic years 2006/07 and 2007/08.

Events organised by the Linguistics Section:

Lectures

10.11.2006
Anthony Stanforth (Emeritus Professor, formerly Chair of Modern Languages at Heriot-Watt University), “The influence of German on English”.

09.02.2007
David Yeandle (Professor of German at King's College London), “English Loan Words and their Gender in German - An Etymological Perspective”.

23.03.2007
Felicity Rash (Reader in German at Queen Mary, London), “The Influence of English on Swiss German”.

08.06.2007
Rudolf Muhr (Professor of Austrian German at the University of Graz / Austria), “Anglizismen und Pseudo-Anglizismen im Österreichischen Deutsch”. Supported by the
The lecture was kindly attended by Her Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, Dr Gabriele Matzner-Holzer.

16.11.2007
Csaba Földes (Professor of German at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém / Hungary), “Das Verhältnis des Deutschen zum Englischen: Aspekte von Dominanz- und Kontaktdruck. Betrachtungen aus ostmitteleuropäischer Perspektive”. Supported by the Hungarian Cultural Centre.

08.02.2008
Gerald Newton (Director of the University of Sheffield Centre for Luxembourg Studies and Professor of German at Sheffield University), “The English Influence on Luxembourgish”.

13.03.2008
Melani Schröter (Reading): "The Thatcher-Merkel Comparison in the British and German Press".

30.01.2009
Kerstin Paul & Eva Wittenberg (both: Potsdam/Germany): "'Aşkım, Baby, Schatz...' – Anglicisms in a multiethnic youth variety of German".
Steiner Room, Lockkeeper’s Cottage, 5:00-6:00pm

The above mentioned lectures resulted in the publication of the following edited volume:

09.02.2010
Prof. Ulrich Busse (Halle-Wittenberg)
"Which Role do Anglicisms Play in  European Languages?"
Arts 2.07, 18:00-19:30

28.10.2011
Prof. Torsten Leuschner (Gent):
"The German 'Drang nach Osten': Linguistic Perspectives on Historical Stereotyping".
Mile End Campus, Lock Keeper's Cottage, Steiner Room, 17:00-18:30

 

Conferences

09-10.11.2007
International Conference Anglo-German Linguistic Relations.
The conference resulted in the publication of the following edited volume:

Pfalzgraf, Falco & Rash, Felicity (eds.). Anglo-German Linguistic Relations. Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, 2008. (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A, Band 98). ISBN 978-3-03911-656-0.

 

Other events

12.03.2010
Founding of the London Branch of the Society for the German Language (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, GfdS).
The opening ceremony was kindly attended by both His Excellency the German Ambassador, Georg Boomgaarden and Prof. Simon Gaskell, Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. For further information about the opening ceremony, please click here.

29.09.2011
Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS) Lecture
Dr. André Meinunger (Berlin):
"Die Deutschen und ihre Sprache - Über Sinn und Unsinn bestimmter Einstellungen".
Mile End Campus, G.O. Jones Building (Physics Building), room 609, 18:00-19:30

16.03.2012
Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS) Lecture
Prof. Peter Lutzeier (Birmingham):
"Jedes ausgesprochene Wort erregt den Gegensinn".
Mile End Campus, Lock Keeper's Cottage, Steiner Room, 6 pm

For further events, it is recommended to check the CAGCR's events page on a regular basis.