33.3244, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Translation/Greece

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Subject: 33.3244, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Translation/Greece

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:50:33
From: Nikolaos Lavidas [nlavidas at uoa.gr]
Subject: Translations in the history of languages: From their position in historical corpora to their effects on language change

Full Title: Translations in the history of languages: From their position in historical corpora to their effects on language change 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Nikolaos Lavidas
Meeting Email: nlavidas at uoa.gr
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/meetings/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 2023

Translations in the history of languages: From their position in historical
corpora to their effects on language change
Workshop convenors:
Nikolaos Lavidas (Athens), Robert Crellin (Oxford), Hanne Eckhoff (Oxford),
Dag Haug (Oslo)

Keywords: translations, diachrony, language change, contact, corpora   

Workshop description and research questions

An account of language change that includes the role of translations is a
challenge for any theoretical model. Recent studies have recognized a twofold
relation between language change and translations: on the one hand, the study
of translations can be part of a research methodology and provide vital data
for the investigation of language change, and, on the other hand, translations
can be seen as a trigger for language change of various types (Koller 1998;
McLaughlin 2011).

The characteristics of translations as an important context of written
language contact have been discussed in several studies on contact—for
example, as related to ancient languages used for religious purposes (e.g., in
the case of Sanskrit, Koine Greek, Latin and Classical Arabic). The role of
translations is also obvious in the development of a language’s prestige. The
translation of ancient (especially Latin and Greek) works and of the biblical
texts into late medieval and early modern European languages has been analyzed
as an important factor for the emergence of the vernacular written languages
(cf. Cornillie & Drinka 2019 [eds.]). Biblical translations, for instance, led
to the realization that the vernaculars have all the necessary means of
expressing the Bible. As a result, the publication of the Bible in the
vernacular languages parallels the publication of grammar books in several
northern European countries (Linn 2013). Certain grammatical and stylistic
characteristics can be seen as related to the influence of translations in the
standardization and establishment of the target language’s prestige. Moreover,
there is consensus that translations have been a major factor in the
introduction of loanwords — for instance, in the case of the introductions of
Latin loanwords into Early English (Lakoff 1972; van Hoecke & Goyens 1990;
Delisle & Woodsworth 2012; Steiner 2008). Other studies have stressed that
translations have transferred culture-specific concepts into various languages
and cultures (Häcker 2011; Luraghi 2013 – cf. Luraghi & Cuzzolin 2007 on
translations of Luke’s Gospel into Latin, Gothic and Old Church Slavonic).

A thorough examination of the role of translations in the history of languages
must confront several significant challenges. In our full workshop
description, we include research topics that the workshop papers are invited
to consider:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NqegRqf8IuKhcAfugG7Wu7NACHZpV9_K/view?usp=sha
ring

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite papers on all listed and related issues. Provisional abstracts (of
no more than 300 words excluding references) should be sent to the workshop
organizers, Nikolaos Lavidas (nlavidas at uoa.gr), Robert Crellin
(robert.crellin at classics.ox.ac.uk), Hanne Eckhoff
(hanne.eckhoff at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk), Dag Haug (d.t.t.haug at ifikk.uio.no), no
later than November 10, 2022.

For the full workshop description, please visit our page here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NqegRqf8IuKhcAfugG7Wu7NACHZpV9_K/view?usp=sha
ring

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