30.2188, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 30.2188, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 23:40:08
From: Judith Huber [judith.huber at fau.de]
Subject: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics

 
Full Title: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics 
Short Title: HiSoN 2020 

Date: 01-Apr-2020 - 03-Apr-2020
Location: Erlangen, Germany 
Contact Person: Judith Huber
Meeting Email: conference-hison2020 at fau.de
Web Site: https://sprachwissenschaft.fau.de/hison2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2019 

Meeting Description:

The HiSoN 2020 conference Intra-Writer Variation in Historical
Sociolinguistics will be held on 1-3 April 2020 at the Friedrich-Alexander
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. It is is hosted by the junior
research group Flexible Writers in Language History in collaboration with the
FAU Linguistics Lab and the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN).

Intra-writer or stylistic variation can be considered as one of the new waves
in historical sociolinguistics - see the previous HiSoN conference in Leiden
2018. In modern sociolinguistics, intra-speaker and stylistic variation have
reached ''the centre of sociolinguistic theorization and method'' (Bell 2014:
297) and are now ''a key ingredient of variationist sociolinguistic research''
(Hernández-Campoy 2016: 30). The success of the so-called third-wave studies
with their focus on the construction of identities through language have
brought about influential concepts such as stylization, crossing and
enregisterment. Resulting from the frequent lack of available information
about individual historical writers and the randomness of textual
transmission, historical sociolinguistics faces increased difficulties when
focusing on individual language use and stylistic repertoires. This may be the
reason why intra-writer variation has as yet not received much attention -
this desideratum in historical sociolinguistics will be addressed at the HiSoN
2020 conference.

Further information, including the Call for Papers, can be found on our
conference website: https://sprachwissenschaft.fau.de/hison2020

Keynote speakers:

Stephan Elspaß (University of Salzburg)
Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki) 
José del Valle (The City University of New York)

Organizing committee:

Markus Schiegg, Franziska Eber, Monika Foldenauer, Sabrina Freund (German
Linguistics); Judith Huber (English Linguistics)

Contact: conference-hison2020 at fau.de

Website: https://sprachwissenschaft.fau.de/hison2020


Call for Papers:

For the Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2020 in Erlangen,
focusing on intra-writer variation, we invite contributions that, among
others, address the following questions:

- Which factors influence stylistic variation in historical writing - intended
addressees, social situations, communicative purposes and/or self-identity
management?
- Can the concepts of intra-speaker or stylistic variation in modern
sociolinguistics be applied to historical data?
- In which kind of historical data can we find intra-speaker variation?
- Can effective style-shifting and the scope of a stylistic repertoire be
correlated with communicative competence and education?
- How can we separate stylistic from social variation in historical data?
- Is it possible to aggregate local findings of stylistic variation and
combine qualitative with quantitative approaches?
- Does the analysis of stylistic variation in writing allow us to observe
language change in progress? Can the language history 'from below' approach
benefit from stylistic variation?
- How does intra-speaker variation evolve over the lifespan of historical
writers?
- What roles do style-shifting and individual language use play within
historical social networks and communities of practice?
- Do we have access to metalinguistic discourses on and ideologies of
historical styles and register awareness?
- How can electronic corpora and digital methods be used to assess individual
variation?

Presentations will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion. Please send your
abstracts of up to 300 words (excluding references) to
conference-hison2020 at fau.de
by 1 September 2019.

Notification of acceptance will be sent in October 2019.




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