35.1121, Calls: D-A-CH_LVC

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Subject: 35.1121, Calls: D-A-CH_LVC

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Date: 30-Mar-2024
From: Christa Schneider [christa.schneider at unibe.ch]
Subject: D-A-CH_LVC


Full Title: D-A-CH_LVC

Date: 01-Apr-2025 - 03-Apr-2025
Location: University of Munich, Germany
Contact Person: Christa Schnieder
Meeting Email: dach_lvc at germanistik.uni-muenchen.de

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2024

Meeting Description:

We are organising a new conference format for the German-speaking
area: The first D-A-CH_LVC. For more information, please check out the
call for papers.

Call for Papers:

D-A-CH_LVC

Language Variation and Change in the German-speaking Area

Munich, April 1-3, 2025

This conference picks up on an idea that originated in the workshop
“Sociolinguistic Perspectives: Contact – Variation – Change,” that
took place in May 2023 at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Some
participants decided to initiate a variationist and sociolinguistic
conference focused on language variation and change for linguists from
the German-speaking area, inspired by the “LVC-Conferences.” Notable
examples of LVC conferences include Language Variation and Change –
Australia (LVC-A) and the United Kingdom Language Variation & Change
(UKLVC). Continuing in this tradition and starting in 2025, a new
conference series, D-A-CH_LVC, will be launched. D-A-CH_LVC aims to
provide a platform for scholarly work documenting and analysing
language variation and change in the German-speaking area.

The goal of D-A-CH_LVC is thus not only to present research on
language variation and change but also on sociolinguistics,
dialectology, and related fields in a conference format highlighting
the diversity of empirical, theoretical, and methodological
approaches. Attention will also be paid to research related to
variation and change of German varieties, including contact phenomena.
Research on non-German varieties will be considered for presentation
as well, as long as it is relevant to the respective thematic focus of
D-A-CH_LVC.

The inaugural D-A-CH_LVC in 2025 will thematically focus on real-time
language variation and change and lectal coherence. This includes
contributions that address short-term diachronic language variation in
real-time, either by a) comparing older data with more recent data in
real-time studies (e.g., Schwarz 2015; Bülow et al. 2019; Leonhardt
2021; Steiner et al. 2022; Stöckle & Wittibschlager 2022) or b)
examining the language use of the same individuals over time in panel
studies (e.g., Harrington et al. 2000; Lameli 2004; Buchstaller &
Wagner 2018; Sankoff 2019; Bülow & Vergeiner 2021). Contributions that
consider the language use of social groups or individuals in terms of
lectal coherence are welcome as well (e.g., Guy & Hinskens 2016;
Beaman & Guy 2022; Beaman & Sering 2022; Vergeiner et al. 2022; Lameli
& Schönberg 2023), i.e., examining how varieties or idiolects can be
distinguished or related based on the distribution of linguistic
features.

Researchers at all career stages are encouraged to submit their
findings, the conference languages will be German and English. Two
presentation formats are planned: 1) 20-minute talks followed by a
10-minute discussion and 2) poster presentations.

Abstracts for talks and posters (in German/English, max. 350 words
excl. references) can be submitted by June 15, 2024, to the following
email address: dach_lvc at germanistik.uni-muenchen.de

Decisions on the acceptance or rejection of submissions will be made
by September 30, 2024.

Organizers (in alphabetical order): Lars Bülow, Sonja Quehenberger,
Christa Schneider, Alexander Werth

Confirmed Keynotes:
•       Karen V. Beaman (University of Tübingen)
•       David Britain (University of Bern)
•       Simone Pfenninger & Mason Wirtz (University of Zurich &
University of Salzburg)
•       Philip C. Vergeiner (LMU Munich)

Bibliography available upon request.



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