<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">CALL FOR PAPERS<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">Linguistic Subfield(s): Historical Linguistics / Sociolinguistics <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">Call Deadline:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>15-Apr-2007<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">Papers are invited for the following session at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Montreal, August 6-11, 2007:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoBodyText">Alternative Language Histories from the mid 18th centuries onwards, a view ‘from below’<O:P></O:P></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">This session on historical sociolinguistics focuses on language use from a group that is traditionally underrepresented (or ignored) in mainstream studies and conferences on language history: those writers at the very bottom of the social ladder. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing interest among language historians of the (late) 18th and 19th century in the study of documents from the lower social classes, paupers and working class emigrants. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">It is striking that these unschooled writers present us with a picture of language use that defeats many traditional accounts of standard languages at the time. Across language borders, it appears that this group had a relationship to language norms that was different from the small upper class layer whose language use has traditionally been the main basis for language histories. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">This session wishes to bring together original contributions on lower class writing from different languages and will try to convey a view on 18th and 19th century language history 'from below' (socially speaking). Recurring themes will therefore include the study of literacy, schooling practices and the evolving role of language norms for the creation of a specific social identity.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">If you wish to contribute to this workshop, please contact the organisers before April 15<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">th</SPAN></FONT>, 2007:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">France Martineau, Université d’Ottawa<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:fmartin@uottawa.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">fmartin@uottawa.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Wim Vandenbussche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:wvdbussc@vub.ac.be"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">wvdbussc@vub.ac.be</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">Presentations may be given in English or French.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">For full information on ICHL 18, please consult the conference homepage at<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="">Session URL:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/en/ateliers.asp#15"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/en/ateliers.asp#15</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>