Prescription and Tradition in Language <br>
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Date: 12-Jun-2013 - 14-Jun-2013 <br>
Location: Leiden, Netherlands <br>
Contact Person: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade<br>
Meeting Email: <a>< click here to access email > </a><br>
Web Site: <a href="http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/prescriptivism-conference.html">http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/prescriptivism-conference.html</a> <br>
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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics<br><br>
Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2012 <br><br>
Meeting Description:<br><br>
4th Conference on Prescriptivism: Following three highly successful
earlier conferences - Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006) and Toronto (2009)
- the next Conference on Prescriptivism will be hosted in The
Netherlands by the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in
collaboration with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, from 12 to 14
June 2013, with a public event (mostly in Dutch) on 15 June. <br> <br>The
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) engages in teaching as
well as research in a wide variety of languages of the world, ranging
from so-called Western languages to the languages of Africa, Eurasia and
indigenous America. The Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
represents multidisciplinary approaches to the study of Asia and the
Middle East. <br> <br>Conference theme: It is from the various research
perspectives embodied in these institutes that we wish to propose the
theme of the conference: Prescription and Tradition in Language. <br> <br>Different
languages have undergone different standardisation processes in the
course of their histories. For some, such as English and Dutch, standard
languages developed from the Renaissance onwards, while for other
languages, e.g. Basque or Indonesian, standardisation was initiated only
relatively recently. <br> <br>Whatever their duration and distribution,
all these developments reflect a perceived need for prescription, which
itself derives from linguistic, cultural, religious, ideological,
political, educational and other sources. These factors often occur in
complex combinations; modern examples are the official status of English
in Cameroon and of Mandarin in Taiwan. <br> <br>Plenary speakers at the conference will include: <br> <br>Florian Coulmas (Duisburg/Essen, Duitsland) <br>Henning Klöter (Johann Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) <br>Carol Percy (University of Toronto) <br>
<br>Conference organisers: Ton van Haaften, Riikka Länsisalmi, Maarten Mous, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Jeroen Wiedenhof.<br><br>
Call for Papers: <br> <br>Interested scholars are invited to submit
abstracts. Suggestions for topics include: prescription and
standardisation; prescription and politics; prescription and popular
attitudes to language; language politics; incipient prescription
processes; prescription and lingua francas; prescription and second
language acquisition. <br> <br>The deadline for the submission of
abstracts is 15 December 2012. Notification of acceptance will be given
before the end of January 2013. Abstracts should be submitted using the
format specified separately. The required documents will (soon) be
downloadable from the LUCL conference website. <br> <br>For further information, see <a href="http://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/">http://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/</a>.<br><br><a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3745.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3745.html</a><br clear="all">
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