30.4011, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Typology/Austria

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Subject: 30.4011, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Typology/Austria

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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 05:58:21
From: Imke Mendoza [imke.mendoza at sbg.ac.at]
Subject: Double Standards. Codified Norms and Norms of Usage in European Languages (1600 – 2020)

 
Full Title: Double Standards. Codified Norms and Norms of Usage in European Languages (1600 – 2020) 

Date: 16-Apr-2020 - 17-Apr-2020
Location: Salzburg, Austria 
Contact Person: Imke Mendoza
Meeting Email: Double-Standards at sbg.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

The histories of most European languages in the last two hundred to four
hundred years (or even beyond) have been marked by the development of standard
languages and the effects of standardization on other language varieties. At
the same time, the individual standardization processes have differed
considerably, ranging from processes of supra-localisation of formerly
regional varieties on the spoken level, eventually resulting in written
standard varieties (such as in the case of French), to levelling processes of
written varieties, forming the basis of spoken standards (such as in the case
of German), or the merger of two (or more) varieties (as in Russian). As a
consequence of the diverse nature of standardization histories, present-day
language communities can differ considerably with respect to speakers’
attitudes towards standard varieties and the underlying standard language
ideologies. In particular, such attitudes and ideologies have sometimes
resulted in what may be termed ‘double standards’ – one notion of ‘standard’
which is mainly based on codified norms, often originating in literary
standards (cf. terms like “Literatursprache”, “langue littéraire”,
“literaturnyj jazyk”) and another notion of ‘standard’ which draws on norms of
usage in non-literary texts of standardized languages. 
The conference will take a further step towards a ‘comparative standardology’
(Joseph 1987). Comparative work has been conducted mostly within the large
language families, i.e. the Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages. Thus, the
conference aims not only at extending the comparison to other European
languages, but also to a comparison across language families. Particular
attention will be paid to the relationship between codified norms and norms of
usage. 

References:

Joseph, John Earl. 1987. Eloquence and Power. The Rise of Language Standards
and Standard Languages. London: Pinter.
Seiler, Guido. 2019. Non-Standard Average European. In Andreas Nievergelt &
Ludwig Rübekeil (eds.), ‘athe in palice, athe in anderu sumeuuelicheru stedi’.
Raum und Sprache. Festschrift für Elvira Glaser zum 65. Geburtstag.
Heidelberg: Winter, 541–554.

Invited Speakers:

Françoise Gadet (Université Paris Nanterre, France) 
Wim Vandenbussche (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 
Monika Wingender (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)


Call for Papers:

Please send your abstract for a 25 min talk to: Double-Standards at sbg.ac.at

Contributions  are welcome on (but not restricted to) the following topics:

– notions of and competing terms for ‘standard language’
– codified norms and norms of usage of individual phenomena
– codified norms and norms of usage of ‘small’ languages 
– ephemeral written languages/varieties
– failed attempts of standardisation
– the role of “Dachsprachen” / ‘roof languages’
– the role of linguistic purism
– a typology of phenomena which developed into codified norms in some
languages, but were stigmatised norms of usage in other languages
– typological aspects of “standard average European” and “non-standard average
European” (Seiler 2019) 

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: December 15, 2019
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2020
 
Organizing committee: 
Stephan Elspaß, Imke Mendoza, Bernhard Pöll, Erik Schleef




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