28.527, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/Austria

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Subject: 28.527, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/Austria

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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:30:54
From: Gabriella Mazzon [Gabriella.Mazzon at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Contact and Contaminations in the History of English(es)

 
Full Title: Contact and Contaminations in the History of English(es) 
Short Title: SLIN 18 

Date: 15-Mar-2018 - 17-Mar-2018
Location: Innsbruck, Austria 
Contact Person: Gabriella Mazzon
Meeting Email: Gabriella.Mazzon at uiibk.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 18th SLIN Conference, marking the 30th anniversary of the constitution of
the group and of its first conference, will take place on March 15th- 17th
2018 at the Leopold-Franzens Universität in Innsbruck, Austria. The conference
will take place in the historical rooms of the seventeenth-century “Palais
Claudiana”, named after Claudia de’ Medici: you can have a preview at
https://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/veranstaltungen/standorte/claudiana/fo
tos.html . More information will be on the conference website, which will be
announced shortly.

The conference fee, including conference materials and coffee breaks, is set
at € 120.00. Information about travelling, accommodation options and social
programme will be circulated in the summer. 

The theme of the conference is 'Contact and Contaminations in the History of
English(es).'

Keynote speakers who have kindly accepted to give lectures at the event are:

Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)
Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna)

The focus is on the impact of language coexistence from Old English to late
Modern English.


Call for Papers:

Papers (20 mins + 10 mins discussion) are invited on the conference theme.
Please note that the chronological scope of the papers ranges between Old
English and Late Modern English, i.e. until 1900 at the latest. Possible focus
areas include:

- Language coexistence in diachrony: direct and indirect influences on
spelling, phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary and pragmatics
- Contact factors in the birth of (“new”) varieties
- Borrowing and its impact on the English language
- The impact of translation on developments in written varieties
- The impact of multilingual practices on (especially medieval)
text-production
- The interplay between socially- and/or geographically-marked varieties / the
impact of different languages and varieties on processes of standardization
- Influences from other languages on views of English and linguistic
meta-discourse

Abstracts (max 300 words + References, in Windows Word format) can be sent by
September 30 2017 to Gabriella.Mazzon at uibk.ac.at. Notification of acceptance
will ensue by November 15 2017.




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