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Registration is now open, and all are welcome to attend. <br><br>
<h3><b>English Dictionaries in Global and Historical Context</b></h3>A
conference hosted by the Strathy Language Unit and the Department of
English, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA<br>
<b>3-5 June 2010<br><br>
</b><i>Scroll down for the link to online registration and additional
conference information.<br><br>
</i>What intellectual and social impact have English and
English-bilingual dictionaries had in the world from the era of the
Latin-Anglo-Saxon glossary to the era of the collaboratively constructed
and web-based Inuktitut Living Dictionary? To what extent did the
manuscript and printed dictionaries of English from the 11th century to
the 20th reflect and inform contemporaneous linguistic norms, literary
movements and social mores, and how now, in the early 21st century, will
the role of English as a lingua franca and the competition of burgeoning
and irreverent user-compiled dictionaries affect or reshape the
traditional dictionary?<br><br>
At this conference we are looking at the codification of English lexicon
through a wide-angle lens, examining English dictionaries not as cultural
givens but as books with authors and readers, produced in a various
historical and bicultural contexts, and serving particular artistic,
cultural, commercial and political ends. We hope that the historical and
cultural breadth of this conference will allow us to reconsider the role
of English dictionaries today, in a world that is increasingly
English-speaking and e-literate and yet digitally and economically
stratified. Over 40 scholars from around the world will present papers,
including keynote speakers Mark Abley (author of <i>The Prodigal Tongue:
Dispatches from the Future of English</i>) and Srinivas Aravamudan
(author of <i>Guru English: South Asian Religion in A Cosmopolitan
Language</i>).<br><br>
All those interested in dictionaries and the themes of this conference
are welcome to register. Broad participation by academics,
lexicographical professionals and community members will enrich our
discussions. The keynote talks by Mark Abley, on Thursday evening, and
Srinivas Aravamudan, on Saturday afternoon, will be open to the
public.<br><br>
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http://post.queensu.ca/~strathy/topics/dic_conf.html</a> <br><br>
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