29.1957, Calls: History of Linguistics/France

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Subject: 29.1957, Calls: History of Linguistics/France

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Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 13:09:14
From: Jean-Michel Fortis [fortis.jean-michel at neuf.fr]
Subject: Linguistics and its Historical Forms of Organization and Production

 
Full Title: Linguistics and its Historical Forms of Organization and Production 

Date: 24-Jan-2019 - 26-Jan-2019
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Chloé Laplantine
Meeting Email: shesl-htl2019 at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: https://shesl-htl2019.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2018 

Meeting Description:

Scientific inquiry may justifiably be seen as a practice ruled by specific
epistemic criteria (hypothesis-testing and empirical adequacy). It may also be
viewed as involving forms of organization which reflect institutional and
didactic traditions, theoretical affinities, paths of transmission, and
various social, political or even religious concerns. From this point of view,
we are confronted with the multifarious forms of organization of linguistic
research, description and prescription, and with the attendant diversity in
scientific production. 

Forms of organization and forms of production may deviate more or less from
the beaten tracks of what academic research today regards as bona fide
structures and theoretical work. Apart from the universities, one may think
for instance of learned societies (international, national or more local),
religious congregations, more or less enduring and organized intellectual
circles, networks, schools of various guises, linguistic institutes,
academies, etc.; and of their productions, in the form of descriptive and more
or less theoretical studies, translations and glosses, manifestos,
instructions (for collecting “data” or for the purpose of setting a
descriptive framework), memoirs, bulletins, missionary grammars,
terminological prescriptions, pedagogical textbooks and dictionaries. Beyond
structures laid out by academic institutions, forms of organization may
involve more or less stabilized theory groups and networks, and schools of
various guises; at stake here is the description of these “invisible
colleges”, of their historical motivations and goals, of factors inducing in
actors a sense of belonging and of the strategies employed in securing a place
in academia. The very broad understanding of “forms of organization” proposed
in this call leaves considerable latitude in the ways forms of linguistic
organization and production can be considered; in particular, it does not
restrict the purview to sociological approaches, although proposals in this
direction are of course welcome. 


Call for Papers:

The committee welcomes proposals bearing on the history, sociology and
epistemology of linguistics from the perspective of its forms of organizations
(schools and theory groups, learned societies, institutions, academic or not
etc.) and of its forms of production seen as representative of these forms of
organization (theoretical texts, dictionaries and textbooks, missionary
grammars, terminological prescriptions etc.).

In brief, the conference committee invites proposals which will bear on the
ways in which linguistic inquiry has organized itself, or, in other words, the
various modes in which individuals involved in linguistic research,
description and prescription have coalesced into groups, schools, “paradigms”
(if this Kuhnian notion is applicable in linguistics or not), research
programs, and institutions of various sorts.

The following more specific topics may be broached (the list is not intended
to be exhaustive): 

- The constitution of intellectual circles and networks (including from a
sociological standpoint)
- The role of religious congregations and their history
- The constitution of modern university disciplines (e.g. the
institutionalization of linguistic research in 19th century Germany)
- The role of learned societies and their history
- The notion of “school” (e.g. the Geneva or Prague school of structuralism)
- The constitution of linguistics as a self-standing discipline in the
academic world
- The notions of paradigm and research program in linguistics 
- The characterization of products related to linguistic activity (e.g.
grammars), insofar as they are representative of a school, institution, etc. 

Submission:

Please send your abstract (around 500 words, + affiliation, bibliography and
keywords) to: 
shesl-htl2019 at sciencesconf.org

Deadline for submission: 30 June 2018
Notification of acceptance: early September 2018

Registration fee: 50 €  (35 € for students)
Free for members of SHESL




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