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Daniel Veith specialized in the following
investigation themes:
• variation linguistics of Latin America
(Spanish and Portuguese)
• contact linguistics
and other questions of sociolinguistics in Romance context
• diachronical and synchronical comparison
of the Romance languages and also of German with regard
to the problems of foreign languages
teaching
• German language and culture
in foreign countries
• basic questions
of the systems of symbolization: language – art
A few of Daniel Veith’s investigation projects:
Italian in the Río
de la Plata region (dissertation)
Sociolinguistic survey in an area of contact of two very
similar languages that consequently provoke many interferences:
the Italian language in Buenos Aires, destination of intense
immigration for 150 years.
In the time of globalisation the linguistic communities
come closer everyday. We want to find out whether the
languages tend to mix even more or whether the speakers
develop a more intensive linguistic consciousness and
learn to separate the languages more clearly.
Using the example of the Italian language in the Río
de la Plata region we want to predict the general development
of language contact, its tendencies and consequences in
a situation of increasing cultural and ethnographic interlacement
of the world.
Daniel Veith: Italienisch am Río de la Plata. Ein
Beitrag zur Sprachkontaktforschung. Frankfurt/Main
etc.: Peter Lang 2008.
German
language and culture in South America
Parallel sociolinguistic surveys in the German colony
Rolândia in the south of Brazil (350 miles east
of São Paulo) and among the German speaking population
of the Belgrano district in Buenos Aires, comparing the
situation of the German language and culture in Portuguese
and Spanish context.
Daniel Veith edits with Dr. Rául Sánchez Prieto
(University of Salamanca) and Dr. Mikel Martínez Areta
(University of the Basque Country) the linguistic
journal Mikroglottika. A journal of minorized
language philologies (ISSN 1988-0863).
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