34.1470, Calls: Sociolinguistic Variation in Historical Legal Texts from Britain: An International Workshop

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Subject: 34.1470, Calls: Sociolinguistic Variation in Historical Legal Texts from Britain: An International Workshop

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Date: 11-May-2023
From: Anita Auer [anita.auer at unil.ch]
Subject: Sociolinguistic Variation in Historical Legal Texts from Britain: An International Workshop


Full Title: Sociolinguistic Variation in Historical Legal Texts from
Britain: An International Workshop

Date: 06-Oct-2023 - 07-Oct-2023
Location: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Contact Person: Anita Auer
Meeting Email: anita.auer at unil.ch
Web Site: https://wp.unil.ch/lalp/international-workshop-on-sociolingu
istic-variation-in-historical-legal-texts-from-britain-universite-de-l
ausanne-6-7-october-2023/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-May-2023

Meeting Description:

Legal and administrative texts punctuated the history of the English
language from the earliest period, e.g. Æthelberht’s code (c.600 AD),
Domesday Book (1086), Magna Carta (1215), Provisions of Oxford (1258),
etc. The development of the legal system over time has led to the
creation of new text types that can serve as sources for the field of
English historical (socio)linguistics, e.g. writs, treatises, law
codes, depositions, etc. Although a great amount of attention has
already been paid to specific text types from different historical
periods, e.g. the role of legal texts in the standardisation processes
of Late Medieval and Early Modern English, a more comprehensive
discussion on legal text types across periods as sources for
linguistic research has not taken place to date. Therefore, this
two-day international workshop aims to bring together scholars working
on legal texts in the history of the English language and to provide a
platform for sharing recent research findings and for facilitating
discussions on different text types, methods, and frameworks.

Contributions focusing on the following themes are particularly
welcome:

- theoretical approaches to historical legal texts;
- evolution of legal institutions and legal practices;
- evolution of legal text types and genres;
- inter-/intra-speaker variation in historical legal texts;
- regional and social variation in historical legal texts;
- code-switching in historical legal texts;
- supralocalisation, standardisation processes;
- scribes, offices and communities of practice participating in the
legal domain;
- templates and manuals in historical legal writing.

Call for Papers:

To shed more light on sociolinguistic variation in historical legal
texts from Britain, we cordially invite researchers working on legal
texts in Britain to submit an abstract for this two-day international
workshop by 31 May 2023. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words
(excluding references). The presentations will be 20 minutes long
followed by 10 minutes Q&A.

Please send your abstracts to Anita Auer (anita.auer[@]unil.ch) and
Olga Timofeeva (olga.timofeeva[@]es.uzh.ch) by 31 May 2023.



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