Methods in Dialectology XI/Dialects Across Borders

[curt fredric woolhiser]

Dear Colleagues:

I am organizing a special session on "Border Effects in Slavic
Dialect Continua" at the 11th International Conference on Methods in
Dialectology (University of Joensuu, North Karelia, Finland, August
5-9, 2002) and would like to invite all
Slavic dialectologists and sociolinguists to consider submitting
abstracts for  papers dealing with any aspect of border impact
studies in Slavic. A more detailed description of the topics for the
special session is appended below, together with the original call
for papers for Methods XI. Please note that the deadline for
submission of abstracts is November 30.

Best regards,

Curt Woolhiser

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Curt F. Woolhiser
Dept. of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Calhoun 415
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78713-7217 USA

Tel. (512) 232-9133, (512) 471-3607
Fax: (512) 471-6710
Email: cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu
Slavic Department Home Page:
http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/slavic/
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Special Session: Border Effects in Slavic Dialect Continua

Among the major language families of Europe, the Slavic languages
have experienced the greatest number of border shifts (whether in
location or in political status) over the course of the 20th century,
with far-reaching implications for the development of dialect
continua within the South Slavic, West Slavic and East Slavic zones.
Despite the significance of these socio-political developments for
the Slavophone regions of Europe, it is only within the last decade
that large-scale empirical research has been done on the effects of
political borders on contemporary Slavic dialect landscapes.

This special session will serve as a forum at which scholars
investigating the role of political borders in ongoing processes of
dialect divergence and
convergence in Slavic can present their research and engage in
discussion of theoretical and methodological issues in
sociolinguistic border impact studies. It is also hoped that the
session will promote dialogue between Slavists and sociolinguists
studying border effects elsewhere in Europe and in other regions of
the world.

Topics for the session include: the role of horizontal
(dialect-dialect) and vertical (dialect-standard) convergence in
cross-border divergent and convergent
innovation; political borders and the geographical distribution of
language functions; border regimes and cross-border geolinguistic
diffusion; regional
integration and cross-border diffusion; divergent language planning
and its impact on border communities; cross-border social networks
and their linguistic
reflexes; ethnolinguistic identity and cross-border dialect
divergence and convergence; political borders and language attitudes;
political borders and perceptual dialectology. Proposals for papers
dealing with situations in which Slavic dialects are "roofed" by
Slavic standard languages on both sides of a political border are
particularly welcome.

Session Organizer:

Curt Woolhiser, University of Texas (USA)

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2001. N.B. Please send your
abstract both to the organizer of the session
(cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu) and the
Methods XI Organizing Committee (methodsxi at joensuu.fi).

Those who do not have access to e-mail should send their abstracts by
regular mail to both of the following addresses:


Curt Woolhiser
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Calhoun 415
The University of Texas
Austin, TX 78713_7217 USA
Tel. (512) 232_9133, (512) 471_3607
Fax: (512) 471_6710


Methods XI Organising Committee
Department of English
University of Joensuu
P.O. Box 111
FIN-80101 Joensuu
Finland


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Methods XI Call for Papers

The Eleventh International Conference on Methods in Dialectology
(Methods XI) will be held from 5 to 9 August 2002, at the University
of Joensuu, North
Karelia, Finland. This conference, which has previously met
triennially at various places in Canada and the United Kingdom, is
now for the first time
arranged in northern Europe. From its initial focus on problems of
methodology, the conference series has gradually expanded its scope
to cover the whole
range of issues relating to regional, social and also historical
variation in any language, group of languages or linguistic area. A
special theme for Methods
XI will be "Dialects across borders", which accords well with the
nature of North Karelia as a historical border area between two
states and two different
linguistic and cultural traditions.

Abstracts for papers are invited on any topic in regional, social or
historical language variation. The presentations will last for 20
minutes, followed by a
10-minute discussion period. Abstracts should be 300-400 words long,
excluding bibliographies, and should preferably be submitted by
e-mail as RTF (or
ASCII text) files to the following address:

                           methodsxi at joensuu.fi

Those who do not have access to e-mail should send their abstracts by
regular mail to:

                           Methods XI Organising Committee
                           Department of English
                           University of Joensuu
                           P.O. Box 111
                           FIN-80101 Joensuu
                           Finland

The conference language is English, but papers read in French and
German are also welcome. The deadline for submission is 30 November,
2001. The authors
will be notified of acceptance in January 2002.

Invited speakers include Peter Auer (Freiburg), Jenny Cheshire
(London), Ruth King (Toronto), Tapani Lehtinen (Helsinki) and Dennis
Preston (Michigan).

Papers and workshops or special sessions are particularly welcome on
topics dealing with the effects of political, ethnic, cultural or
other kinds of borders on all aspects of dialect or language
variation. Suggestions for special sessions, workshops,
demonstrations or poster sessions on other topics are also welcome.


For further information, please see the conference website:

http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/methodsxi/

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