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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">The University of Agder,<br>
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel,<br>
and the University of Bristol<br>
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present the</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">THIRD SUMMER SCHOOL ON
HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS<br>
20 - 27 August 2009</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">at Metochi, Lesvos
(Greece)</font></div>
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Organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network
(HISON)</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">The venue is the University of
Agder's Metochi study centre, a former monastery on the Greek island
of Lesvos.</font></div>
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Our teachers this year will be:<br>
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PETER TRUDGILL (AGDER, NORWAY)<br>
Language contact and linguistic change in early post-Roman Britain:
sociolinguistic insights<br>
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LAURA WRIGHT (CAMBRIDGE, UK)<br>
Historical sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics: 18th c. printed
ephemera and the London upper working-class sociolect<br>
<br>
JEROEN DARQUENNES (NAMUR, BELGIUM)<br>
Contact and conflict along the Germanic-Romance language border<br>
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HELEN KELLY-HOLMES (LIMERICK, IRELAND)<br>
Minority languages and media engagement: discourses and practices in
and on Irish<br>
<br>
ERNST HÅKON JAHR (AGDER, NORWAY)<br>
The Arctic Pidgin Russenorsk<br>
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NILS LANGER (BRISTOL, UK)<br>
Prescriptive grammars and linguistic purism<br>
<br>
MARK JANSE (GENT, BELGIUM)<br>
Asia Minor Greek: borrowing, interference, and the mixed language
debate<br>
<br>
GRO-RENEE RAMBØ (AGDER, NORWAY)<br>
Scandinavian - Low German contact in the late Middle Ages<br>
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Classes will take place in the morning and early evening and you will
have the opportunity to present your own research at a special
session.<br>
The school will last for one week and the cost of 375 British Pounds
includes accommodation, three meals per day, and tuition, and an
excursion.<br>
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If you register and pay in full before May 1st, 2009, we will give you
a discount of 75 British Pounds, i.e. you will only pay 300 British
Pounds.<br>
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Please note that there are only 40 places available.<br>
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Contact: Nils Langer, Reader in German Linguistics, School of Modern
Languages, University of Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK<br>
nils.langer@bris.ac.uk<br>
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Summer school website:
www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2009<br>
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venue: www.hia.no/metochi<br>
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HISON: www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison<br>
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