28.1002, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/France

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Subject: 28.1002, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/France

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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:06:13
From: Justyna Robinson [justyna.robinson at sussex.ac.uk]
Subject: The Role of an Individual in Linguistic Change

 
Full Title: The Role of an Individual in Linguistic Change 

Date: 04-Jul-2017 - 06-Jul-2017
Location: Tours, France 
Contact Person: Justyna Robinson
Meeting Email: justyna.robinson at sussex.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.cbdaconference.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 28-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

This is a workshop on ''The role of an individual speaker in linguistic
change'' at the Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English (CBDA-5).
http://www.cbdaconference.org/

Organiser: Justyna Robinson

On the one hand, this workshop explores the way in which individual speakers
participate in an ongoing community change by advancing it, resisting it, or
following other response scenarios (what are the potential scenarios?). In
this respect, the workshop aims to assess the importance of various factors in
differential speaker's response to change such as social position of the
speaker, attitudes to and perceptions of change, the type of change (e.g.
change at different levels of language, changes from above/below), etc. On the
other hand, the workshop considers the lifecycle of linguistic change and how
it intersects with the life of a speaker or a small group of speakers as
evidenced in the history of English. How do innovations arise and how are they
'managed' by individual speakers? How are the innovations passed on to other
speakers during the diffusion of change? How is the process of receding usage
managed by individuals? The workshop also considers the issue of differential
'reaction' of individuals to change (participating in the change or not, other
scenarios?) depending on the stage of change (e.g. new change, change towards
completion) and depending on the life stage of an individual speaker. 

This workshop also aims to assess the effect of remaining historical records
of individual usage on our understanding of the history of English.   

A desired outcome of the workshop is a more fine-grained understanding of how
linguistic change happens as exemplified by changes in the English language.
What were the past reasons for an individual to depart from an established
usage and follow the innovative use? What were the social, cognitive, and
structural ingredients of a successful change? What were the characteristic of
ephemeral changes? 

Apart from theoretical issues, this workshop will discuss methodological
challenges involved in investigating linguistic change at an individual level
and outline the most pressing areas of further research. 


Call for Papers:

The workshop on individual variation considers the question of how linguistic
innovation and change happens when viewed from the point of an individual
speaker or a small group of speakers.  We would like to invite papers which
consider this question in the context of the diachrony of the English
language.

Full papers will be allowed 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion.
If you would like to take part in the workshop, please send an abstract
(approximately 300 - 400 words), in .doc or .pdf format, to Justyna Robinson
(justyna.robinson at sussex.ac.uk). Abstracts should reach us no later than March
28, 2017. Please leave the abstract anonymous, but do cite your name and
affiliation as well as the title of your paper in the e-mail.

Further information on the CBDA-5 conference is on the meeting website:
http://www.cbdaconference.org/




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