{"id":12137,"date":"2026-11-09T09:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T09:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=12137&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:01:18","slug":"international-academic-conference-language-contact-in-literature-findings-problems-and-new-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=12124","title":{"rendered":"International Academic Conference \u2013 Language Contact in Literature: Findings, Problems and New Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We invite you to the international academic conference Language Contact in Literature: Findings, Problems and New Directions. We welcome your active participation in the form of conference paper presentations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and venue:<\/strong> 28 \u2013 29 May 2027, Institute of World Literature SAS (D\u00fabravsk\u00e1 cesta 9, Bratislava, Slovakia)<br \/>\n<strong>Deadline for abstract submission:<\/strong> <strong>15 January 2027<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Selected contributors will be contacted by the end of January 2027.<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a short biographical note (100 words) to <a href=\"mailto:languagecontactlit@gmail.com\">languagecontactlit@gmail.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Language-Contact-conference-call.docx\">Call for Papers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hosted by the Translation and Language Contact in Literature IMPULZ project (SAS, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagecontact.sav.sk\"><em>www.languagecontact.sav.sk<\/em><\/a><em>) and the \u201cLanguage Contact in Literature: Europe\u201d Research Committee of the ICLA. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Traditional models of national literatures, we increasingly understand, fail to account for the fundamentally global, transnational and multilingual nature of the literary process. Satisfactory alternatives, however, are still lacking. At the same time, the concept of translation is applied to an ever-growing range of literary phenomena. Both tendencies, each in its own way, highlight the pressing need for a precise ontology capable of sustaining an interdisciplinary conversation on how complex linguistic scenarios manifest in literary texts. This conference addresses this need and aims to spark a new dialogue across translation theory, literary multilingualism, translanguaging, world and postcolonial literature, international literary movements and several cognate fields. We look to contact linguistics for a unifying standpoint capable of bringing together the study of works shaped by language contact both at the level of communities (Thomason 2001; Matras 2009) and at the level of the individual mind (Pavlenko 2015). We thus invite contributions that span areas from minor literature, borderland, migrant and postcolonial writing to literary multilingualism, translingualism, and cross-lingual influence. Our goal is to better map the complex, multifaceted linguistic practices and processes that shape global literature, and to develop an approach that adapts language-contact perspectives for the literary context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invite you to the international academic conference Language Contact in Literature: Findings, Problems and New Directions. We welcome your active participation in the form of conference paper presentations. Date and venue: 28 \u2013 29 May 2027, Institute of World Literature SAS (D\u00fabravsk\u00e1 cesta 9, Bratislava, Slovakia) Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2027 Selected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=12124\" class=\"more-link\">Pokra\u010dova\u0165 na <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Academic Conference \u2013 Language Contact in Literature: Findings, Problems and New Directions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pozvanky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12137"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12139,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions\/12139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}