8.984, Calls: Harold Orton Centenary Conf

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Subject: 8.984, Calls: Harold Orton Centenary Conf

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Date:  Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:10:39 GMT
From:  "J. KLEMOLA" <engjk at ARTS-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK>
Subject:  Harold Orton Centenary Conference

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Date:  Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:10:39 GMT
From:  "J. KLEMOLA" <engjk at ARTS-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK>
Subject:  Harold Orton Centenary Conference

Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers

HAROLD ORTON CENTENARY CONFERENCE:
DIALECTAL VARIATION IN ENGLISH
March 24-26 1998

Plenary speakers will include:

Bill Kretzschmar
Jim Milroy


1998 sees the centenary of the birth of Harold Orton, co-founder of
the Survey of English Dialects, and the half-centenary of the
establishment of the Survey itself.

The conference aims:

- to take stock of the research achievements in dialectology to date

- to address current issues in diachronic and synchronic variation in
English, from the point of view of dialectology, sociolinguistics,
corpus-based linguistics, socio-cultural studies, literary studies and
any other related fields

- to bring together people working on linguistic variation from
different perspectives and from all the English-using world

- to look forward to research projects for the new millenium

A selection of the proceedings will be published in Leeds Studies in
English.

We invite you to send one-page proposals for papers, workshops, and
panel discussions in the above areas. Papers will be 20 minutes
duration + 10 minutes for discussion.

Please send your abstracts/proposals by 30 September 1997 to one of
the following, either by post to the address below or by email:

Dr Clive Upton (c.upton at sheffield.ac.uk)
Dr Juhani Klemola (j.klemola at leeds.ac.uk)
Dr Anthea Fraser Gupta (a.f.gupta at leeds.ac.uk)

School of English
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

For more information, contact:

Professor Katie Wales (k.wales at leeds.ac.uk)

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