2nd Call for Papers: Linguistic Purism in the Germania

[Nils Langer]

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Final CALL FOR PAPERS
Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
University of Bristol, UK, 9-11 April 2003
Supported by the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB)

Deadline for abstracts: June 1st, 2002

Guest Speakers:   
James Milroy	        University of Michigan 
Klaus Mattheier 	University of Heidelberg 
Oskar Reichmann 	University of Heidelberg 
Nancy Niedzielski 	Rice University, Houston
Dieter Stein		University of Düsseldorf

Studies on linguistic purism commonly concentrate on one particular 
aspect of the field, be it a specific language, region or type of 
purism. Little research has attempted to provide a more unified account
of purism, combining description of the phenomena with an explanation 
of why purism comes / came about.  In this conference we want to bring 
together scholars from a broad range of areas in order to initiate a 
dialogue between different aspects, fields and theoretical models. The 
aim is to provide a platform where a wide range of accounts of and 
approaches to puristic ideas can be discussed in order to detect common
patterns across languages, periods, regions and types. 

Papers (25-30 minutes) are invited on any of the following fields: 
· Folk Linguistics 
· Attitudes towards and perceptions of dialects and minority languages 
· Standardization of Germanic languages 
· Stigmatization of non-standard varieties 
· History of puristic ideas 
· Modern purism by institutions or individuals 

Please submit an abstract of 300 words by June 1st 2002 either by email
(preferred) or post to: 
 Dr Nils Langer 
Dept of German 
University of Bristol 
21 Woodland Road 
Bristol, BS8 1TE 
United Kingdom
Email:
nils.langer at bris.ac.uk

Conference Website: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl
 
Organizers:
Nils Langer (nils.langer at bris.ac.uk)			
Winifred Davies (wid at aber.ac.uk)
Maria Barbara Lange (m.b.lange at bris.ac.uk)


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Dr Nils Langer
Lecturer in German Linguistics
Dept of German
University of Bristol
Bristol, England
BS8 1TE
0044-(0)117-928 9841
Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk
homepage: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl