II Congreso Internacional CROS 2024 / II International CROS Conference 2024
The ease of mobility of the 20th century accelerated contact between individuals and promoted the fusion and coexistence of two or more cultural systems, where more than one language intervenes in the(re)construction of identities. This second congress proposes to analyze the contact situations where Spanish enters into cross-fertilization with English and other languages and cultures, as it would be for example in Spain (Basque, Catalan, and Galician and other European languages such as French and Portuguese); in Mexico (Nahuatl and Maya); in Central and South America (Quechua, Aymara, Maya, and Guarani); in the extreme South of Latin America (Portuguese, Italian, and German); in the Caribbean and the Philippines (the creole languages); in the United States (English).
The congress welcomes presentations involving research in different fields such as linguistics, literature, cultural studies, translation, language acquisition, and migratory movements, around three main subjects:
Spanish in contact with other Languages
ELE (SFL): learning and interlinguistic pragmatics
Migratory movements and identity (re)construction
This II international congress is a joint initiative of the Research Group CROS of the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies (Spanish language) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and the Department of Spanish at Ghent University (Belgium).
The congress will take place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium) on February 7 – 8, 2024 (in-person event).
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