27.4752, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/UK

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Subject: 27.4752, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/UK

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:42:36
From: Gertrud Reershemius [g.k.reershemius at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Successor Lects or Can Languages Have an 'Afterlife'?

 
Successor Lects or Can Languages Have an 'Afterlife'? 

Date: 07-Dec-2016 - 07-Dec-2016 
Location: Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Gertrud Reershemius 
Contact Email: g.k.reershemius at aston.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Symposium at Aston University in Birmingham, December 7 2016: Language shift
is rarely a wholesale abandonment of a language by its speakers but a complex
process normally taking place over two to three generations. In some cases
language shift can lead to the development of successor lects. During the 19th
century, for example, Romani speakers in the process of shift to English
consciously retained a repository of words and phrases to be implemented into
their English, thus forming a distinct variety of English often referred to as
Anglo Romani. Another language where a conscious preservation of at least a
repository and the development of successor lects took place during a process
of shift is Western Yiddish in contact with Dutch and German in the first four
decades of the 20th century. With a focus on speakers with multilingual
repertoires, the symposium presents case studies as a contribution to a wider
sociolinguistic framework in order to further theoretical approaches to
language change.

Funded by the British Academy a one day symposium will take place on December
7 (10 am to 4 pm) at Aston University in Birmingham.

Confirmed Speakers:

Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles)
Yaron Matras (University of Manchester)
Anne Pauwels (SOAS, London)
Jakob Wiedner (University of Oslo)

The event is free of charge. Please register by 15/11/2016 under: 
lss_researchsupport at aston.ac.uk
 

Programme:

9:30: 10:00: Coffee and informal Welcome

10:00: 
Anne Pauwels (SOAS, London)
Language Shift and successor lects

11:00:
Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles)
Ethnolinguistic Infusion: The Conscious Incorporation of Elements of an
Ancestral Language

12:00:
Gertrud Reershemius (Aston University, Birmingham)
Performing heritage: Remnants of Western Yiddish in Amateur Theatre

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00:
Jakob Wiedner (University of Oslo)
Meta-linguistic discourses on Norwegian Romani

15:00:
Yaron Matras (University of Manchester)
'Can languages have an afterlife? The re-functionalisation of unspoken speech
varieties'

The event is free of charge. Please register under: 
lss_researchsupport at aston.ac.uk





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