27.4137, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/UK

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Subject: 27.4137, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/UK

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:42:33
From: Anne-Helene Halbout [ahh31 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain

 
Full Title: The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain 

Date: 20-Apr-2017 - 21-Apr-2017
Location: Faculty of English, Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Anne-Helene Halbout
Meeting Email: meits at mml.cam.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.meits.org/events/event/the-emergence-of-standard-english-in-multilingual-britain 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 11-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Two-day workshop organised as part of the AHRC-funded project Multilingualism:
Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS).

Workshop Themes:

The history of Standard English as told in the handbooks is essentially a
monolingual one.  Yet anyone who has worked with late medieval texts written
in Britain has to contend with at least Medieval Latin and Anglo-Norman
French, as well as potentially the influences of one or more Celtic languages
and Old Norse.  Recent decades have seen a burgeoning of work in historical
sociolinguistics, where perspectives of variation, multilingualism, and
writing from below are applied to social groupings and political systems. 

This two-day workshop aims to bring together people who are interested in both
historical multilingualism and the evolution of Standard English. 

The confirmed speakers for the event are:

Prof Paivi Pahta, University of Tampere
Prof Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki 
Prof Merja Stenroos, University of Stavanger
Dr Jacob Thaisen, University of Oslo
Prof Juan Manuel Hernandez Campoy, University of Murcia
Prof Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre, University of Murcia
Dr Alpo Honkapohja, University of Zurich
Prof Anita Auer, University of Lausanne


Call for Papers;

Proposals are welcomed from Early Career Researchers on any of the themes
outlined below, or anything else that relates to multilingualism in Britain
and emerging standard languages. Proposals with an explicitly methodological
focus, e.g. exploring a new methodological approach to uncover interactions
between historical multilingualism and the emergence of a standard variety,
are also welcome. 

Please send your abstract of no more than 1 side of A4 to meits at mml.cam.ac.uk
by no later than 11 November 2016. Practical details about the workshop and
its location can be found at
www.meits.org/events/event/the-emergence-of-standard-english-in-multilingual-b
ritain.  This workshop is being organised as part of the AHRC-funded project
Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS). 

For a more detailed Call for Papers, please go to
www.meits.org/files/events/uploads/Call_for_Papers.pdf .

Wendy Ayres Bennett, Nicola McLelland, Laura Wright




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