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The Celtic Englishes |
The Celtic Englishes I, 28-30 September 1995 |
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The first colloquium (i.e. pilot colloquium) took
place in 1995 and assembled some 40 scholars from Europe and Canada. Beside
the speakers, there were 18 official guests especially invited as discussants
as well as students from the universities of Potsdam, Freiburg i.Brsg.,
Heidelberg and two of the Berlin universities (Humboldt and Free University).
The purpose of the Pilot Colloquium was to take stock of the research done
in this field so far and to discuss the acceptability of the concept of
the "Celtic Englishes" as such. A summary of the results will
be published (in German) in Anglistik (Mitteilungen des Verbandes deutscher
Anglisten). An expanded form of the basic problematic will be published
(in German) under the title "The Celtic Englishes - Zwei grammatische
Beispiele zum Problem des Sprachkontakts zwischen dem Englischen und den
keltischen Sprachen" in the Proceedings of the Zweites Deutsches
Keltologensymposium (Second German Symposium of Celtic Studies), Bonn,
2-4 April 1997, ed. by Stefan Zimmer, in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift
für Celtische Philologie. The Proceedings
of the first Potsdam Colloquium appeared in 1997 in the Carl Winter Universitätsverlag
Heidelberg (ISBN 3-8253-0377-2), ed. by Hildegard L.C. Tristram. Reviews
will be cited when forthcoming.
A bibliography of 1260 titles relating to the "Celtic Englishes" was appended to the volume of proceedings. The bibliography also exists in classified form. Users interested in receiving the classified bibliography are welcome to contact us (tristram@rz.uni-potsdam.de). A hundred titles of the most important items is made available in annotated form as part of the ABES project (Annotated Bibliography for English Studies) of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) on CD-Rom in autumn 1998. It is hoped that ABES will go online in the near future. |