Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Christa Dürscheid::Projekte

Offering a platform for an exchange of ideas on the latest developments in research into the in-group languages of young people, the conference in Zurich maintains a tradition initiated in Leipzig and continued in Heidelberg, Osnabrück and Wuppertal. The main focus will be on theoretical considerations, new empirical results, but also on needs and requirements and plans for forthcoming projects.

Christa Dürscheid (Zürich)/Eva Neuland (Wuppertal): »›Spricht die Jugend eine andere Sprache?‹ Neue Antworten auf alte Fragen«

Erika Werlen (Bern/Basel): »›Uhuärägeili schattenparkierer‹. Jugendsprache in der Deutschschweiz«

Reinhard Fiehler (IDS Mannheim): »Was Alt und Jung gemeinsam haben. Ein Plädoyer, über der Jugend die anderen Generationen nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren«

Lecture of authors (presenting the winners of the short story competition »Alt und...« (»Aged and...«), organized by Zurich's department for health in cooperation with Radio DRS)

Competition in public speaking – finals and awarding of prizes

All the lecture titles are also listed in this brochure.

The abstracts of section talks can be found here (taken from the conference brochure; PDF, 362KB).

Please contact Jürgen Spitzmüller for any further question.



	International Conference »Current developments in research into the language of young people« 17th – 19th February 2005, Zurich (Tagungszentrum Boldern)

	» Deutsche Fassung » Call for Papers (PDF, 222KB) » Programme (outline, including lecture titles) (PDF, 243.5 KB) » Conference Brochure (verbose, including abstracts) (PDF, 747KB) » Application form (PDF, 68.5KB) or RTF (6.8KB) » NEW! Some impressionen from the conference
Objectives
	Offering a platform for an exchange of ideas on the latest developments in research into the in-group languages of young people, the conference in Zurich maintains a tradition initiated in Leipzig and continued in Heidelberg, Osnabrück and Wuppertal. The main focus will be on theoretical considerations, new empirical results, but also on needs and requirements and plans for forthcoming projects.
Programme
Thursday, 17th February
15.15:	Opening
15.30:	Christa Dürscheid (Zürich)/Eva Neuland (Wuppertal): »›Spricht die Jugend eine andere Sprache?‹ Neue Antworten auf alte Fragen«
16.40:	Coffee break
17.00:	Erika Werlen (Bern/Basel): »›Uhuärägeili schattenparkierer‹. Jugendsprache in der Deutschschweiz«
18.30:	Dinner
20.00:	Reinhard Fiehler (IDS Mannheim): »Was Alt und Jung gemeinsam haben. Ein Plädoyer, über der Jugend die anderen Generationen nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren«
21.15:	Lecture of authors (presenting the winners of the short story competition »Alt und...« (»Aged and...«), organized by Zurich's department for health in cooperation with Radio DRS)

Friday, 18th February
9-12.00:	Lectures in section 1-5
12-13.30:	Lunch break
13.30-17.00:	Lectures in section 1-5
18.00:	Dinner
19.00:	Competition in public speaking – finals and awarding of prizes

Saturday, 19th February
9-12.00:	Lectures in section 1-4
12-13.30:	Lunch break
13.30:	Evaluation
15.00:	Closing

Sections
Comparisons between youth cultures and in-group languages at international level (Responsible: Dr. Jannis K. Androutsopoulos, Hannover) in-group languages within and outside Europe comparison of youth (sub-)cultures youth movements in the past and today » talks The language of young people in media and communications research (Responsible: Prof. Dr. Peter Schlobinski, Hannover) research into the communicative behaviour of young people the use of language in the internet and mobile phone communication media for young people (magazines, websites, television and radio channels) body language » talks The language of young people from the linguistic and language didactic aspect (Responsible: Prof. Dr. Eva Neuland, Wuppertal) analysis on the lexical, syntactic and pragmatic level suggestions for the teaching of German as a mother tongue and as a foreign language reflections on their use of language with young people themselves » talks The language of young people in the spectrum of varieties of language and multilingualism (Responsible: Prof. Dr. Dr. Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich, Bern) dealing with varieties of language and modes of expression young people's use of language and/in dialect young people's in-group languages and multilingualism » talks The language of young people in academic and public discourse (Responsible: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schiewe, Greifswald) The language of young people as a subject of language criticism The language of young people and language change The language of young people, colloquial varieties, standard varieties » talks All the lecture titles are also listed in this brochure. The abstracts of section talks can be found here (taken from the conference brochure; PDF, 362KB).
Organisation
Head:	Prof. Dr. Christa Dürscheid
Contact:	Please contact Jürgen Spitzmüller for any further question.