32.2808, Calls: Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 32.2808, Calls: Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 01:55:40
From: Roderick McDonald [mcdrod at gmail.com]
Subject: Leeds International Medieval Congress 2022

 
Full Title: Leeds International Medieval Congress 2022 
Short Title: IMC2022 

Date: 04-Jul-2022 - 07-Jul-2022
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Axel Müller
Meeting Email: imc at leeds.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2022/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 22-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects
of Medieval Studies. In 2022 the special thematic focus is ‘Borders’.


Call for Papers:

Historical linguistics panel(s): ‘Linguistic Boundaries, Speaking of Borders’ 
International Medieval Congress (IMC) Leeds, 4-7 July, 2022.

Two successful Linguistic Borderlands panels were held at Leeds online IMC
2021, and we want to do it all again for 2022 (hopefully in person!) 

Historical linguistics has not been prominent at Leeds IMC, and now we hope to
build on 2021, establishing an ongoing presence for historical linguistics in
this important conference.

2022 Theme
Leeds IMC is again running with the theme ‘Borders’; this is the same theme
that was planned for the Covid-cancelled conference of 2020. 

In 2021 both of our two panels ran under this theme: we called them
‘Linguistic Borderlands, Languages at the Boundaries’. 

The theme continues to be highly suited to historical linguistic theory and
specific historical linguistic analyses, and even though there were
withdrawals from the 2020 schedule of 4 such panels, there is still much
ground to cover. 

So for 2022 we continue with this theme, but want to mix it up a bit. 

We’ve all been through a fairly shit couple of years, so we also want to mix
some whimsy and fun into our academic poindexterism.

Title:
Linguistic Boundaries, Speaking of Borders 

Paper Proposals:
a. Serious
Both theoretical and specific subject-analytical papers are invited, and your
proposal must deal with a medieval topic. You might consider one or more of
the following subject ideas, or propose another topic that may fit under the
broad boundaries and borders theme:
- Language contact and language change
- The language of marginal or other overlooked inscriptions: manuscript,
stone, lexis, text, graphics
- Modern concepts of language boundaries and implications for the study of
historical/medieval languages
    • Contexts of the study of historical languages: theoretical, political,
cultural, academic 
- Disciplinary boundaries affecting language study

b. Whimsical
Do you want to break a rule, disrupt a pattern, or just throw an idea out
there for the hell of it? Whimsy, swears and silliness are all linguistic
behaviours, and if you want to explore the silly, if you want to test the
boundaries of rude, or just play with language, be mischievous, weird,
capricious, comical or fanciful, we want to open our space up to you! All you
need to do is make sure it is historically linguistic (somehow), and
medievally oriented. Topics that you might like to mess about with include:
- Lexis okay, pragmatics fine, but what’s the deal with syntax?
- Border wars, boundary disputes: they really thought/spoke/wrote like that?
- I can’t believe it’s not Dutch!
- Holes in the OED. More like no ED.
- Bound dairies, Bored oars: playing with dumb puns and topical play.
- For fuck’s sake! Swearing at/in/through the academy.
- Laugh! Rectum! The body, the mind, the soul: it’s all a bit of a linguistic
game.

Process:
Paper proposals including an abstract of approx. 150 – 200 words are invited,
to be sent to
Roderick McDonald mcdrod at gmail.com by Wednesday 22nd September 2021.

Publication:
Our previous aims (for 2020) were to edit a collection of papers derived from
these panel sessions into a hard copy volume with an academic publisher. This
is still a possibility, but hey, there are no promises any more, just hopes
and dreams, likes and prayers.

Seán Vrieland (Københavns Universitet), Christine Wallis (Sheffield and
Manchester), Emily Reed, Roderick McDonald (Emu Forge)




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