28.1254, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 28.1254, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:36:15
From: Rik Vosters [Rik.Vosters at vub.ac.be]
Subject: Monolingual Histories – Multilingual Practices: Issues in Historical Language Contact

Full Title: Monolingual Histories – Multilingual Practices: Issues in Historical Language Contact 

Date: 01-Dec-2017 - 01-Dec-2017
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Rik Vosters
Meeting Email: Rik.Vosters at vub.ac.be
Web Site: http://taalentongval2017.blogspot.be 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

Monolingual histories – Multilingual practices: Issues in historical language
contact

Annual colloquium of Taal & Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries

1 December 2017
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (KANTL)
Ghent, Belgium

http://taalentongval2017.blogspot.be

Keynote Speakers:

Päivi Pahta (University of Tampere)
Joe Salmons (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Marijke van der Wal (Leiden University)

Languages such as English, German and Dutch have traditionally been described
in monolingual histories. Accounts of the history of these languages often
focus on their gradual development through time with special attention being
paid to the rise of the standard language. The areas in which these languages
were used, however, were also home to a wide spectrum of other languages,
including regional varieties of the dominant language, immigrant languages and
‘prestigious’ foreign languages such as Latin and French. This means that
speech and writing communities in most of these areas have in fact been highly
multilingual throughout history (Braunmüller & Ferraresi 2003, Stenroos et al.
2012). These multilingual practices, however, tend to be rendered invisible in
monolingual histories, and even regional languages within larger language
areas are not always represented, particularly when the developing standard
language is prioritized (Hüning et al. 2012, Schrijver 2014, Havinga & Langer
2015). At the 2017 Taal & Tongval colloquium, we aim to revisit the place of
language contact in historical settings, by focusing on historical
multilingualism and multilingual practices in language history. 

In historical settings, reconstructability is a crucial issue. It is often
difficult to find out who spoke which language(s) to whom. The written record
typically prefers some languages over others, which only intensifies when
standardization sets in. If we want to reconsider historical language contact,
we also need to develop ways to reconstruct the sociolinguistic conditions
determining the contact situation. 

Main organizers:

Gijsbert Rutten, Universiteit Leiden
Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

References:

Braunmüller, Kurt & Gisella Ferraresi (eds.). 2003. Aspects of Multilingualism
in European Language History. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Havinga, Anna & Nils Langer (eds.). 2015 Invisible Languages in the Nineteenth
Century. Bern: Peter Lang.
Hüning, Matthias, Ulrike Vogl & Oliver Moliner (eds.). 2012. Standard
Languages and Multilingualism in European History. Amsterdam & Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.
Peersman, Catharina, Gijsbert Rutten & Rik Vosters (eds.). 2015. Past, Present
and Future of a Language Border. Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low
Countries. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Schrijver, Peter. 2014. Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic
Languages. New York: Routledge.
Stenroos, Merja, Martti Mäkinen & Inge Særheim (eds). 2012. Language Contact
and Development Around the North Sea. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.

Call for Papers:

Monolingual histories – Multilingual practices: Issues in historical language
contact

Annual colloquium of Taal & Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries

1 December 2017
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (KANTL)
Ghent, Belgium

We are looking for contributions in the fields of historical sociolinguistics
and historical language contact, with a keen eye for the issues outlined
above. Topics to be discussed include (but need not be limited to):

- The multilingual experiences of migrating individuals and communities, and
the linguistic consequences thereof
- Domain-specific and socially conditioned language choice in situations of
societal multilingualism
- Contact-induced changes in traditional dialects and standard languages,
beyond the domain of lexical loans
- Standardization as koineization, and standard languages as contact varieties
- Societal and individual multilingualism vs. metalinguistic discourse
prototypically focusing on monolingualism
- The role of monolingual and standard language ideologies in language
historiography

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts of 250 words can be sent to the organizers (rik.vosters at vub.ac.be,
g.j.rutten at hum.leidenuniv.nl) before 1 May 2017. Notification of acceptance
will be given by 15 May 2017. The conference languages are English and Dutch.

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