[lg policy] call: Prescription and Tradition in Language

[Harold Schiffman]

Prescription and Tradition in Language

Date: 12-Jun-2013 - 14-Jun-2013
Location: Leiden, Netherlands
Contact Person: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site:
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/prescriptivism-conference.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics;
Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2012

Meeting Description:

4th Conference on Prescriptivism: Following three highly successful earlier
conferences - Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006) and Toronto (2009) - the next
Conference on Prescriptivism will be hosted in The Netherlands by the
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in collaboration with the Leiden
Institute for Area Studies, from 12 to 14 June 2013, with a public event
(mostly in Dutch) on 15 June.

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) engages in teaching as
well as research in a wide variety of languages of the world, ranging from
so-called Western languages to the languages of Africa, Eurasia and
indigenous America. The Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) represents
multidisciplinary approaches to the study of Asia and the Middle East.

Conference theme: It is from the various research perspectives embodied in
these institutes that we wish to propose the theme of the conference:
Prescription and Tradition in Language.

Different languages have undergone different standardisation processes in
the course of their histories. For some, such as English and Dutch,
standard languages developed from the Renaissance onwards, while for other
languages, e.g. Basque or Indonesian, standardisation was initiated only
relatively recently.

Whatever their duration and distribution, all these developments reflect a
perceived need for prescription, which itself derives from linguistic,
cultural, religious, ideological, political, educational and other sources.
These factors often occur in complex combinations; modern examples are the
official status of English in Cameroon and of Mandarin in Taiwan.

Plenary speakers at the conference will include:

Florian Coulmas (Duisburg/Essen, Duitsland)
Henning Klöter (Johann Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Carol Percy (University of Toronto)

Conference organisers: Ton van Haaften, Riikka Länsisalmi, Maarten Mous,
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Jeroen Wiedenhof.

Call for Papers:

Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts. Suggestions for topics
include: prescription and standardisation; prescription and politics;
prescription and popular attitudes to language; language politics;
incipient prescription processes; prescription and lingua francas;
prescription and second language acquisition.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 December 2012.
Notification of acceptance will be given before the end of January 2013.
Abstracts should be submitted using the format specified separately. The
required documents will (soon) be downloadable from the LUCL conference
website.

For further information, see http://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3745.html

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