27.3345, Calls: History of Ling, Lexicography/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3345. Mon Aug 22 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3345, Calls: History of Ling, Lexicography/USA

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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:52:58
From: Sarah Ogilvie [sogilvie at stanford.edu]
Subject: 19th Century Lexicography Conference: Between Science and Fiction

 Full Title: 19th Century Lexicography Conference: Between Science and Fiction 

Date: 06-Apr-2018 - 07-Apr-2018
Location: Stanford University, USA 
Contact Person: Sarah Ogilvie
Meeting Email: sogilvie at stanford.edu
Web Site: https://lexicographers.stanford.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics; Lexicography 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

How can we understand the making of monolingual and multilingual dictionaries
in the nineteenth century? Were lexicographers in conversation with
nineteenth-century philologists, seeing their work as science and as work
properly to be undertaken collaboratively, by teams of careful, scientific
observers? Or were they utopian thinkers, trying to create new languages, or
to create writers and speakers who would use old languages in new ways? How
are the prescriptive and the descriptive intertwined in their work? What
evidence do dictionaries in different languages offer to answer these
questions? What were lexicographers’ personal motives for their work? What
role, if any, did nationalistic enterprises play in the planning and execution
of these texts? What were the historical factors – in the history of
technology, or the history of thought – that led to the flourishing of
lexicography in the nineteenth century? And what brings this phenomenon to
scholars’ attention now?

This conference aims to bring together scholars in various fields –
linguistics, national literatures, and history – to do the following:

To compare nineteenth-century dictionary-making in Europe, the Americas, Asia,
the Pacific and beyond in order to determine possible patterns within or
across languages according to:

- Political and nationalistic agendas
- Scientific and historical methods of data collection, analysis, and
description
- Desire to standardize language, prescribe usage, or revive old forms

To investigate how and to what degree lexicographers were in dialogue with
Continental philologists who were forging new scientific approaches to
language and linguistic description.

To investigate how radical and widespread the notion of collaboration was for
lexicographers of the nineteenth-century.

To determine whether there is a prototypical nineteenth-century lexicographer,
regardless of language or region, or whether trends in methodology and
practice are language-specific, region-specific, or lexicographer-specific.
What might characterize someone working on dictionaries in this century in
contrast with other periods?


Call for Papers:

Please send abstracts no longer than 300 words (excluding references) to Sarah
Ogilvie (sogilvie at stanford.edu) and Gabriella Safran (gsafran at stanford.edu) by
1 September 2016.

Nineteenth-Century Lexicography Conference: Between Science and Fiction

Stanford University, 6-7 April, 2018

Organizers: Sarah Ogilvie and Gabriella Safran

Website: https://lexicographers.stanford.edu/

We invite abstract submissions for papers on the topic of Nineteenth-century
Lexicography for a conference at Stanford University, 6-7 April 2018.

Sponsored by Stanford University Libraries; the Dean of Humanities and
Sciences; the Dean for Research; the Program in Science, Technology, and
Society; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and the
Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French and Italian,
Linguistics, and Slavic Languages and Literatures.



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