Friday, July 1, 2016

ICOS 2017 website launched

http://icosweb.net/drupal/node/77



We are delighted to announce that the website of the 26th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences has now been launched and will be the place to visit over the coming months for details about next year's event, including the call for papers.

The Congress will be held at the University of Debrecen (Hungary), on 27 August - 1 September 2017, with the theme of 'locality and globality in the world of names'.

Welcome
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the website of the 26th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences.

Locality and globality in the world of names
The central topic of the congress is the linguistic position that proper names occupy in our present globalized world. Proper names as linguistic universals are an ancient linguistic category as old as language itself. They were probably created by the communicational situation in which, relying on linguistic signs fostering distinction, humans wanted to mark the things that were most important in their immediate environment. In fact, this ancient function is the most important reason for the existence and use of proper names even today. Nevertheless, at the same time, proper names may be the most characteristic linguistic representations of the global linguistic situation that has evolved up to our times. Communication in our times does not only make the ever more intensive use of proper names inevitable, but it also endows these with ever newer functions, continuously creating new types and sorts of names.

The wide-ranging central topic of the congress offers a number of possible approaches for speakers. Different questions of onomastic theory will come to the foreground, such as the situation of the variable relationships between particular types of names or their continuous interactions and changes. The presentation of the systematic character of names and their manifestation in different linguistic environments calls both for the study of phenomena and the accurate, thorough analysis of particular names. Besides the (historic and descriptive) aspects traditionally found in linguistics, new aspects may also be raised that have come to the fore over recent decades: e.g. socio- and psycho-onomastic or even cognitive frame sets; and, besides all these, even related disciplines, such as language policies or different approaches of applied science, may come to contribute to our knowledge concerning proper names.

The scientific committee

president:
István Hoffmann (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
co-president:
Terhi Ainiala (University of Helsinki, Finland)
coordinator:
Valéria Tóth (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
secretary:
Erzsébet Győrffy (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
organizer:
Robert Tornai (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
members:
Elena L. Berezovich (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Andrea Bölcskei (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary)
Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch (Institute of Polish Language Polish Academy of Sciences, Crakow, Poland)
Elwys de Stefani (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Joan Tort Donada (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Sheila Embleton (York University, Toronto, Canada)
Tamás Farkas (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Adrian Koopman (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Katharina Leibring (Institute for Language and Folklore, Uppsala, Sweden)
Sándor Maticsák (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Anita Rácz (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Pavel Štěpán (Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic)
Simon Taylor (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Christian Zschieschang (Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe, Leipzig, Germany)

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