23.2528, Calls: English, Historical Ling, Lexicography, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling/France

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Subject: 23.2528, Calls: English, Historical Ling, Lexicography, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling/France

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Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:17:04
From: Nicolas Trapateau [nicolas.trapateau at univ-poitiers.fr]
Subject: Journée Parole 4: Walker and the English of his Time (18th c - 19th c)

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Full Title: Journée Parole 4: Walker and the English of his Time (18th c - 19th c) 

Date: 16-Nov-2012 - 17-Nov-2012
Location: Poitiers, France 
Contact Person: Nicolas Trapateau
Meeting Email: nicolas.trapateau at univ-poitiers.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 05-Jul-2012 

Meeting Description:

The spoken language researchers working in the Projet Parole (MSHS) at the University of Poitiers invite you to their next meeting. This fourth edition of the Journée Parole echoes the diachronic work undertaken during the previous workshop (November 2010) and will focus on 18th century English pronunciation as described in John Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary (1791).

Invited Speaker:

Joan Beal (University of Sheffield) 

Call for Papers:

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries - and up to Daniel Jones - John Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary remained unchallenged in terms of his authority for pronunciation. Since Dyche's and Bailey's first notations of stress in the 1720s, followed by Kenrick's superscript numbers to indicate vowel quality, orthoepists have kept trying to elaborate or refine systems for transcribing spoken English. The system introduced by Walker, taking after this tradition, was adopted by numerous authors during the next century and marked a major step towards the creation of the IPA. It is in light of such semi-phonetic indications that the study day aims at investigating the English - or differents types of English - recorded in John Walker's dictionary, particularly along three main lines: the purely phonetic and phonological work on Walker's transcriptions, the sociolinguistic issue of prescriptivism, and finally the comparison of the different editions of Walker's dictionary. Our focus may also include the works of his contemporaries, such as Sheridan.

Research is still in its early stages in this vastly unexplored domain and we invite all researchers working on John Walker's orthoepic work or that of his contemporaries to help shed light on the pronunciation of 18th century English. Possible topics may be the following (the examples are not exhaustive): 

- The segmental and suprasegmental characteristics of Walker's English and of his transcriptional system
- Walker and his discourse - between prescriptivism and descriptivism
- Consistency and contradictions between the rational principles prefixed to the dictionary and word transcriptions in the body of the work
- The implicit and explicit social stratification which emerges from Walker's judgments
- Walker's explicit position with respect to the co-existence of different pronunciations in other orthoepic dictionaries
- The linguistic comparison between Walker's dictionary and those of his contemporaries
- The editions and re-editions of Walker's dictionary throughout the 19th century

Abstracts should be sent to jeremy.castanier at univ-poitiers.fr and nicolas.trapateau at univ-poitiers.fr.

Submission:

Maximum 300-word abstract, including a title
Conference: 30-minute presentation followed by 15-minute discussion

Important Dates:

Date and location: November 16 and November 17 (morning), 2012
University of Poitiers (France)/MSHS
Deadline for abstract submission: July 5, 2012
Notification of abstract acceptance: July 14, 2012

Scientific Committee:

Nicolas Ballier (Université Paris VII Diderot)
Joan Beal (University of Sheffield)
Philippe Caron (Université de Poitiers)
Jérémy Castanier (Université de Poitiers)
Jean-Louis Duchet (Université de Poitiers)
Sylvie Hanote (Université de Poitiers)
Rita Ranson (Université du Havre)
Nicolas Trapateau (Université de Poitiers)
Franck Zumstein (Université Paris VII Diderot)

Organizing Committee:

Jérémy Castanier, Jean-Louis Duchet, Nicolas Trapateau, (EA 3816 FoReLL - Université de Poitiers), Franck Zumstein (EA 3967 CLILLAC-ARP - Université Paris VII Diderot)

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