27.2919, Calls: Lexicography, History of Ling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2919. Mon Jul 11 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2919, Calls: Lexicography, History of Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:39:26
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:

Nineteenth-Century Lexicography Conference: Between Science and Fiction
Location: Stanford University, USA
Dates: 6-7 April 2018
Contacts: Sarah Ogilvie and Gabriella Safran
Conference Email: sogilvie at stanford.edu and gsafran at stanford.edu
Conference Website: https://lexicographers.stanford.edu/
Call Deadline: 1 September 2016

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

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.




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