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Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

Workshop 1: Language Contact through Written Discourse. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Session 1 (Chair: Svenja Kranich)

Plenary Speaker

• [14.00-14.30] Laura Wright (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge)
  The Text-Type of London Medieval Mixed-Language Business Writing

Further papers to be presented by

• [14:30-15:00] Steffen Höder (Research Centre on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg)
  Explicitation in Old Swedish translations: when, where, and why
   
• [15:00-15:30] Olga Timofeeva (Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki)
  Translation-induced interference in Old English
   

[15:30-16:00] Coffee Break

Session 2 (Chair: Steffen Höder)

• [16:00-16:30] Silvia Hansen-Schirra & Mary Mondt (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz & Universität des Saarlands, Saarbrücken)
  Communicative conventions in multilingual scientific discourse: a multidimensional study on language contact and language change
   
• [16:30-17:00] Viktor Becher, Juliane House & Svenja Kranich (Research Centre on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg)
  How translations from English shape the genre of popular scientific writing in German
   
• [17:00-17:30] Stella Neumann & Erich Steiner (Universität des Saarlands, Saarbrücken)>
  Contrasts and contact of cohesive features in English and German