32.1570, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Slovo a slovesnost (Jrnl)

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Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 13:44:03
From: Petr Kaderka [slovo at ujc.cas.cz]
Subject: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Slovo a slovesnost (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Slovo a slovesnost 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2021 

Call for Abstracts:

For a special issue on Historical Sociolinguistics

Guest editors:
Marek Nekula (University of Regensburg)
Stefan Michael Newerkla (University of Vienna)

When sociolinguistics established itself as an independent discipline between
linguistics and sociology during the so-called pragmatic turn of the 1960s and
1970s, its research primarily focused on the present. This emphasis was also
reflected in its use of both linguistic and sociological methods and their
further development, regardless of whether the research orientation was
quantitative or qualitative. As a result of the aforementioned methods and
their use in the framework of empirical research, it may seem that the
discipline is exclusively grounded in synchronic research. Sociolinguistics,
however, is a discipline which does not only deal with interactions and their
social aspects and representations of societal differentiations in linguistic
variation and patterns of language use. It also explores the covariance
between changes in linguistic and social norms, whether they are examined in
longitudinal studies or by means of language biographies, whose narratives
reflect changes in the linguistic situation over the course of several
generations. The specificity of historical sociolinguistics thus lies not in
its study of changes in linguistic and social norms, but rather, in the fact
that the research deals with a period which can no longer by studied directly
through active observation or by examining its participants, but exclusively
via documents: registries, urbaria, ego-documents, contemporaneous papers, the
press or ordinances and statistics concerning the state, land, rule, city,
school and so on. At the same time, historical sociolinguistics must cope with
the fact that the data is not of equal quality - it is usually patchy as well.
Therefore, the necessity of specific research methods naturally arises,
regardless of whether the aim is to study the history of settlements with the
help of historical onomastics, urban multilingualism, the social background
established by new genres or the formation of linguistic identity and social
deixis.

It is precisely these historical sociolinguistic methods and their use in case
studies that is the focus of this special issue, which poses the following
questions among others: Which methods does historical sociolinguistics create
for its research purposes and how does it use them? In what way are
quantitative and qualitative approaches and methods of sociolinguistic
research adapted in regard to handwritten and printed documents? How does
sociolinguistics treat documents involving quantity such as censuses,
registries and business ledgers? Is the triangulation of methods in historical
sociolinguistics only possible when taking qualitative approach, while
quantitative data require a methodological mix including qualitative methods
and approaches? To what degree may contemporaneous engravings or postcards be
used in the framework of historical sociolinguistics in the study of
linguistic landscapes?

Timeline: Send abstracts (up to 1800 characters including spaces) to the
addresses below by July 31, 2021. Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest
editors and the head editor. Authors will be contacted by August 8, 2021. The
submission date for articles is December 31, 2021. Languages of publication
are Czech, Slovak, English and German. The issue will be published in 2022.
All articles will be submitted for peer review. 

Send abstracts to: Marek.Nekula at ur.de, stefan.newerkla at univie.ac.at,
slovo at ujc.cas.cz.




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