27.2898, Calls: Greek, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 27.2898, Calls: Greek, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:16:31
From: Klaas Bentein [klaas.bentein at ugent.be]
Subject: Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

 
Full Title: Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek 

Date: 01-Dec-2016 - 02-Dec-2016
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Klaas Bentein
Meeting Email: klaas.bentein at ugent.be
Web Site: http://www.varieties.ugent.be/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Conference organised at Ghent University (December 1-2, 2016) by Klaas
Bentein, Mark Janse, Willy Clarysse & Bruno Rochette concerning varieties of
Post-classical and Byzantine Greek.

For a large part of the twentieth century, linguistic variation has received
little attention. With the work of William Labov and others, however,
heterogeneity in language again became a topic of interest: within the newly
founded discipline of sociolinguistics, scholars have investigated the
correlationship between linguistic variants and contextual variables such as
age, gender, social class, social distance, etc. In actual language use,
however, variants (and to some extent, variables) do not occur in an isolated
fashion; rather there is patterned heterogeneity. In this spirit, scholars
have described the existence of various lects such as chronolects, dialects,
idiolects, ethnolects, genderlects, regiolects, sociolects, technolects, etc.
in a great number of languages.

The aim of this conference is to investigate varieties of Post-Classical and
Byzantine Greek, a topic of considerable interest among various members of the
Greek section at Ghent University. Whereas some research has been done in this
area, aspecially when it comes to Post-Classical Greek (e.g. Janse 2007 on New
Testament Greek, Horrocks 2007 on levels of writing, Torallas-Tovar 2010 on
Greek in Egypt, Nachergaele 2015 on idiolect, Bentein 2015 on register), a
more systematic  discussion of these varieties has yet to take place – despite
the great potential of our Post-Classical and Byzantine sources.


Call for Papers:

The organisers invite all Greek linguists to submit a one-page English
abstract to varieties at ugent.be (please use a Unicode-based font for Greek
text) by September 1, 2016 at the latest. Notification of acceptance will be
given by the end of September. Next to the discussion of specific varieties,
we consider the following issues of particular interest:

- What linguistic models can be used for the description and analysis of
varieties? 
- What is the relationship between different dimensions of variation, for
example between the diachronic and the diastratic dimension?
- What role do idiolects play for the description of language variation? 
- To what extent do non-congruent features (i.e. features belonging to
different, or even opposed varieties) occur in texts?  
- What is the relevance of and relationship between documentary and literary
texts as sources of variety?
- At which linguistic levels (phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical)
can varieties be described?




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