31.2543, Calls: Hist Ling, History of Ling, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax/Romania

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2543. Tue Aug 11 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2543, Calls: Hist Ling, History of Ling, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax/Romania

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:56:26
From: Carmen Mîrzea Vasile [carmen.vasile at unibuc.ro]
Subject: Workshop on Standardization and Usage: A Comparative Approach

Full Title: Workshop on Standardization and Usage: A Comparative Approach 

Date: 20-Nov-2020 - 21-Nov-2020
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Carmen Mîrzea Vasile
Meeting Email: carmen.vasile at unibuc.ro
Web Site: https://litere.ro/2020/08/01/colocviul-international-al-departamentului-de-lingvistica/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Morphology; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Romanian (ron)

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This workshop will be held as part of the twentieth Conference of the
Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest. 

The present workshop is intended to foster a deeper understanding of the
standardization process and linguistic variable norm(s), by comparing similar
cases in different languages and cultures, in a sociolinguistic framework.
Standardization will be considered in its relationship with language
evaluation, ideologies, purism and folk linguistics. Special attention will be
paid to norm variability and the effects of implicit or explicit norms on
language change.

Call for Papers: 

The workshop aims to find answers to the following queries: 
- Are there more convergences or more differences in the standardization
processes, both in diachrony and in the contemporary state of national
languages?
- Is there a general tendency of relaxing norms and accepting register
hybridization? What is the balance between power and weakness of regulatory
institutions, and between norm acceptance and norm criticism?
- Is there a specific on-line metadiscourse on language norm(s)? 
- Which are the similar constructions differently standardized in various
languages and how are they standardized (e.g. agreement in number and gender
for coordinated, partitive, collective expressions; “agreement” of adverbs and
invariability of adjectives; clitic doubling; negative concord; feminization
of profession nouns, etc.)?
- What effects does the standardization of one level of language have on other
levels (e.g. writing norms on pronunciation)? How similar are languages in
this respect? 

Papers may focus on a particular language, investigated either synchronically
or diachronically or may compare phenomena from two or more languages
(genetically related, belonging to the same areal, but also completely
different).

Each presentation will last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
The workshop languages are Romanian, English and French.

Abstracts, no longer than 500 words (references excluded), in Times New Roman,
size 12, will be sent by attachment to:  carmen.vasile at unibuc.ro (Carmen
Mîrzea Vasile), isabela.nedelcu at unibuc.ro (Isabela Nedelcu),
rodica.zafiu at unibuc.ro (Rodica Zafiu).

Important dates:  
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2020
Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2020
Conference dates: November 20‒21, 2020

Registration fee (if the conference will be held face-to-face): € 40 (or RON
190); doctoral students: € 20 (RON 95).

We will keep you informed in a timely manner on how the workshop will take
place (face-to-face or online).

Selected bibliography: 
Armstrong, N., I. E. Mackenzie, 2013. Standardization, Ideology and
Linguistics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ayres-Bennett, W., 2020. From Haugen’s codification to Thomas’s purism:
assessing the role of description and prescription, prescriptivism and purism
in linguistic standardisation. In: Language Policy 19. 183-213.
Coseriu, E., 1952. Sistema, norma y habla. Montevideo: Universidad de la
República.
Haugen, E., 1972. The Ecology of Language. Stanford/Calif.: Stanford
University Press.
Lebsanft, F., F. Tacke (eds), 2020. Manual of Standardization in the Romance
Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Milroy, J., L. Milroy, 1991. Authority in Language: Investigating Language
Prescription and Standardisation. London: Routledge.
Niedzielski, N. A., D. R. Preston, 2000. Folk Linguistics. Berlin/New York: De
Gruyter Mouton.
Pountain, Ch. J., 2016. Standardization. In: A. Ledgeway, M. Maiden (eds). The
Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: O.U.P. 634-643.
Rutten G., R. Vosters, W. Vandenbussche (eds), 2014. Norms and Usage in
Language History, 1600-1900: A Historical-sociolinguistic and Comparative
Perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 
Thomas, G., 1991. Linguistic Purism. London/New York: Longman.

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