23.1067, Confs: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Historical Ling/Poland

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Subject: 23.1067, Confs: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Historical Ling/Poland

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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:54:25
From: Matylda Wlodarczyk [wmatylda at ifa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: On the Development of Extraterritorial Varieties

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On the Development of Extraterritorial Varieties 

Date: 08-Sep-2012 - 10-Sep-2012 
Location: Poznań, Poland 
Contact: Matylda Wlodarczyk 
Contact Email: wmatylda at ifa.amu.edu.pl 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

On the development of extraterritorial varieties: Migrants, women, and 
other providers of 'bad data'

Within the disciplines of socio-historical linguistics, historical 
pragmatics and discourse analysis the issue of evidence has been 
subject to ongoing debate over the last two decades. The resulting 
consensus involves accepting many sources, previously regarded as 
'bad data', as valid objects of linguistic inquiry. For instance, historical 
correspondence, once a debatable source of data (cf. the reservations 
in Wright 1989), has been widely analysed using the tools drawn from 
contemporary conversation analysis or other frameworks developed in 
natural data contexts (e.g., Culpeper and Kádár 2010). More interest in 
the so-far unexplored evidence arose from the need for approaches 
offering language histories 'from below' (Elspass et al. 2007; cf. also 
Nurmi - Nevala - Collin 2009; Langer - Davies - Vandebussche 2012) 
as an alternative to the histories of standard languages. These 
postulates involve a shift from the focus on the language of high 
social strata to the less prominent varieties, such as those used by the 
lower social classes and underprivileged groups (e.g., immigrants, 
women, etc.). At the same time, more emphasis needs to be placed on 
the value of first-hand attestations of the past stages of languages (cf. 
Pahta and Jucker 2011). All of the above trends are relevant to the 
historical study of transported varieties, especially in the periods of 
restricted literacy. This panel offers an overview of the more recent 
approaches to the study of linguistic histories, particularly in 
extraterritorial contexts. This event's central goal is to present the 
analytic tools and theoretical resources needed to revise and expand 
the current frameworks and models of development of transported 
varieties (e.g., Trudgill 2004; Schneider 2007) with regard to the nature 
of the primary sources. This session brings together a wide-ranging 
group of linguists who have interest and expertise in the 
sociolinguistic, pragmatic and discourse-based descriptions of the 
development of transported varieties across time and space. We 
anticipate that the audience members will be attracted from across the 
various disciplines of socio-historical linguistics and more broadly 
across the field of linguistics.

References:

Culpeper, Jonathan and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.). Historical (Im)politeness 
Research. Bern: Peter Lang.
Elspass, Stephan, Nils Langer, Joachim Scharloth and Wim 
Vandenbussche (eds.). 2007. Germanic Language Histories 'from below' 
(1700-2000). Berlin: de Gruyter.
Langer, Nils, Steffan Davies and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.). 2012. 
Language and
History, Linguistics and Historiography. Interdisciplinary Approaches. 
Bern: Peter Lang.
Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.). 2009. The 
Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800). Amsterdam: John 
Benjamins.
Pahta, Päivi and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.). 2011. Communicating Early 
English Manuscripts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schneider, Edgar. 2007. Postcolonial English: Varieties Around the 
World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Trudgill, Peter. 2004. New-Dialect Formation. The Inevitability of 
Colonial Englishes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Wright (Fitzmaurice), Susan. 1989. Private language made public. The 
language of letters as literature. Poetics 18: 549-78. 

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