call for papers

[Nils Langer]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
University of Bristol, UK
9-11 April 2003

Studies on linguistic purism commonly concentrate on one particular 
aspect of the field, be it a specific language, region or type of 
purism. Little research has attempted to provide a more unified account
of purism, combining description of the phenomena with an explanation 
of why purism comes / came about.  In this conference we want to bring 
together scholars from a broad range of areas in order to initiate a 
dialogue between different aspects, fields and theoretical models. The 
aim is to provide a platform where a wide range of accounts of and 
approaches to puristic ideas can be discussed in order to detect common
patterns across languages, periods, regions and types. 

Guest Speakers:
James Milroy	University of Michigan 
Klaus Mattheier 	University of Heidelberg 
Oskar Reichmann 	University of Heidelberg 
Nancy Niedzielski 	Rice University, Houston
Dieter Stein		University of Düsseldorf

Papers (25-30 minutes) are invited on any of the following fields: 

Folk Linguistics 
Attitudes towards and perceptions of dialects and minority languages 
Standardization of Germanic languages 
Stigmatization of non-standard varieties 
History of puristic ideas 
Modern purism by institutions or individuals 

Please submit an abstract of 300 words by June 1st 2002 either by email
(preferred) or post to: 
Contact: 
Dr Nils Langer 
Dept of German 
University of Bristol 
21 Woodland Road 
Bristol, BS8 1TE 
United Kingdom

Email:
nils.langer at bris.ac.uk

Conference Website: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl

Organizers:
Nils Langer (nils.langer at bris.ac.uk)			
Winifred Davies (wvd at aber.ac.uk)
Maria Barbara Lange (m.b.lange at bris.ac.uk)


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Dr Nils Langer
Lecturer in German Linguistics
Dept of German
University of Bristol
Bristol, England
BS8 1TE
0044-(0)117-928 9841
Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk
homepage: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl