Beschreibung
Already in the first half of the 20th century, Roman Jakobson pointed out the fact that the limits of language convergence seem to coincide strikingly with boundaries of physical and political geography. By stating so, he anticipated later findings of the American sociolinguist Dell Hymes, who claimed that different languages can form a speech community under certain political influence and social conditions. Like isoglosses, which constitute certain dialect areas in dialectology, bundled language and culture contact phenomena distinguish certain contact areas from others. A major contact area in Central Europe is the contact zone which we can associate with the Late Habsburg Monarchy. This paper will not only give some linguistic examples of shared expressions typical of the languages in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (such as Sparherd, Garçonnière, Fauteuil, etc.), but also show how brand names (like Pischinger, Ceres, etc.) and other specialist terms (like Teebutter, Kronenzucker, etc.) shaped the conceptual world of urban people and subsequently the whole population of the Habsburg Monarchy.| Zeitraum | 14 März 2014 |
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| Ereignistitel | Urban Space and Multilingualism in the Late Habsburg Empire |
| Veranstaltungstyp | Konferenz |
| Ort | Wien, ÖsterreichAuf Karte anzeigen |