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<br> CfP: Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence. An international colloquium on meaning and human expression<br><br>
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Subject: CfP: Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence. An international colloquium on meaning and human expression<br>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:18:00 +0200<br>
From: Ulla Savolainen <<a href="mailto:ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi" target="_blank">ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi" target="_blank">ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi</a>, <a href="mailto:ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi" target="_blank">ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi</a> <<a href="mailto:ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi" target="_blank">ulla.savolainen@helsinki.fi</a>><br>
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Call for Papers<br>
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Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence<br>
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An international colloquium on meaning and human expression<br>
22nd-24th May 2013, Helsinki, Finland<br>
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'Register' originated as a term in linguistics for contextual<br>
variation in language, or language as it is used in a particular<br>
communicative situation. This term and concept has become important<br>
for addressing communication through practice in several intersecting<br>
disciplines, such as folkloristics, linguistics and linguistic<br>
anthropology, being used with varying fields of inclusion and<br>
exclusion, ranging from the purely verbal<br>
level of communication to all features which have the capacity to<br>
signify (props, gestures, etc.). The Helsinki Register colloquia have<br>
been organized to bring together representatives of diverse<br>
perspectives in order to open cross-disciplinary discussion of the<br>
term and concept ?register?.<br>
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Register II sets out to explore interfaces of social, societal and<br>
semiotic processes that a) give rise to registers as meaningful<br>
constellations of communicative features; b) affect existing registers<br>
and their constituent features; and c) lead registers to become<br>
obsolete for certain functions or to drop out of use. We invite<br>
presentations on both synchronically oriented research and on<br>
long-term historical perspectives; on rapidly developing or<br>
short-lived registers (e.g. school-yard slang, "facebookese") as well<br>
as on<br>
registers characterized by social stability and slow-changing<br>
structures (e.g. "Biblical" language, oral epic singing). We hope<br>
that diverse presentations from different disciplinary perspectives on<br>
the life of registers as social practice will prove reciprocally<br>
informative and produce new insights and understandings.<br>
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Keynote speakers:<br>
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- Douglas Biber, Regents? Professor of Applied Linguistics, Northern<br>
Arizona University, USA<br>
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- Charles Briggs, Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore and<br>
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA<br>
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- Ruqaiya Hasan, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Macquarie<br>
University, Australia<br>
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- Timo Kaartinen, Adjunct Professor of Social and Cultural<br>
Anthropology, University of Helsinki, Finland<br>
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- Lars Boje Mortensen, Professor of Cultural History of Antiquity and<br>
the Middle Ages,<br>
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark<br>
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If you would like to take part in this event by presenting a paper,<br>
please send an abstracts of no more than 500 words to Ulla Savolainen<br>
(ulla.savolainen[a]<a href="http://helsinki.fi" target="_blank">helsinki.fi</a><u></u>) by Friday, 30th November 2012.<br>
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Papers presentations should be twenty minutes in length allowing ten<br>
minutes for discussion and accessible to participants from other<br>
fields for cross-disciplinary discussion. If you would like to<br>
participate without presenting a paper, please let us know by March<br>
15th, and also whether you would be interested in moderating a<br>
session. A participation fee of 50 euros covers lunches and receptions.<br>
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Organizers:<br>
- Folklore Studies of the University of Helsinki<br>
- The research project Oral and Literary Culture in the Medieval and<br>
Early Modern Baltic Sea Region of the Finnish Literature Society<br>
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For more information, please visit our website at:<br>
<a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/register/" target="_blank">http://www.helsinki.fi/<u></u>folkloristiikka/register/</a><br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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