THIRD SUMMER SCHOOL ON HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

[Wim Vandenbussche]

The University of Agder,
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
and the University of Bristol

present the

THIRD SUMMER SCHOOL ON HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS
20 - 27 August 2009
at Metochi, Lesvos (Greece)

Organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON)

The venue is the University of Agder's Metochi 
study centre, a former monastery on the Greek 
island of Lesvos.

Our teachers this year will be:

PETER TRUDGILL (AGDER, NORWAY)
Language contact and linguistic change in early 
post-Roman Britain:  sociolinguistic insights

LAURA WRIGHT (CAMBRIDGE, UK)
Historical sociolinguistics and historical 
pragmatics: 18th c. printed ephemera and the 
London upper working-class sociolect

JEROEN DARQUENNES (NAMUR, BELGIUM)
Contact and conflict along the Germanic-Romance language border

HELEN KELLY-HOLMES (LIMERICK, IRELAND)
Minority languages and media engagement: 
discourses and practices in and on Irish

ERNST HÅKON JAHR (AGDER, NORWAY)
The Arctic Pidgin Russenorsk

NILS LANGER (BRISTOL, UK)
Prescriptive grammars and linguistic purism

MARK JANSE  (GENT, BELGIUM)
Asia Minor Greek: borrowing, interference, and the mixed language debate

GRO-RENEE RAMBØ (AGDER, NORWAY)
Scandinavian - Low German contact in the late Middle Ages


Classes will take place in the morning and early 
evening and you will have the opportunity to 
present your own research at a special session.
The school will last for one week and the cost of 
375 British Pounds includes accommodation, three 
meals per day, and tuition, and an excursion.

If you register and pay in full before May 1st, 
2009, we will give you a discount of 75 British 
Pounds, i.e. you will only pay 300 British Pounds.

Please note that there are only 40 places available.

Contact: Nils Langer, Reader in German 
Linguistics, School of Modern Languages, 
University of Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK
nils.langer at bris.ac.uk

Summer school website: www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2009

venue: www.hia.no/metochi

HISON: www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison
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