30.1733, Calls: English; Historical Linguistics/Netherlands

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1733. Mon Apr 22 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1733, Calls: English; Historical Linguistics/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:32:32
From: Svenja Kranich [skranich at uni-bonn.de]
Subject: International Conference on English Historical Linguistics - 21

 
Full Title: International Conference on English Historical Linguistics - 21 
Short Title: ICEHL-21 

Date: 08-Jun-2020 - 12-Jun-2020
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Meeting Email: i.m.tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl
Web Site: https://icehl21.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 25-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

ICEHL is a conference on all aspects and subjects relating to English
Historical Linguistics. Having started in Durham, in 1979, its twenty-first
edition will be held at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in the second
week of June, 2020.


2nd Call for Papers:

Call for Contributions to a proposed Workshop ”Epistemic and evidential stance
in English past and present: Interaction and (social) change“ 
Svenja Kranich (University of Bonn) & Elisabeth Reber (University of Würzburg)

The evolution of epistemic modal markers have attracted a lot of attention in
research on the history of English (e.g. Krug 2000), and so have
grammaticalizing processes in present day English (PDE) from an interactional,
discourse-functional perspective (e.g. Kärkkäinen 2003). Markers of
evidentiality, which are less grammaticalized in English, have been tackled to
a lesser extent in diachronic studies (but cf. e.g. Aijmer 2009), but recent
interactional work has suggested ongoing grammaticalization processes in PDE
(Reber 2018).

We think that both strands of research – functional-oriented diachronic as
well as interactional studies concerned with ongoing change – are interested
in similar research questions, but rarely interact and share their different
perspectives.  Shared interests and assumptions include:
1) The functions of epistemic and evidential markers: Epistemic and evidential
expressions are clearly shaped in their evolution and use in social
interaction
2) The forms of epistemic and evidential markers: The context-specific shaping
of epistemic and evidential markers, in turn, is highly dependent on social
factors, such as the ways in which we visualize the relationship between
ourselves and our interlocutors when we speak/write..
Based on these shared interests and assumptions, the present workshop wishes
to facilitate a discussion between linguists interested in changes in the
English language over time. The aim of the workshop is thus to bring together
insights from historical linguistics on the emergence, grammaticalization, and
historical patterns of use of evidential and epistemic markers and insights
from interactional studies on ongoing change.

We thus highly welcome papers concerning any of the following issues:

- general properties of individual epistemic and evidential markers from the
point of view of their interactional and social potential and functions 
- studies of the emergence (grammaticalization) of epistemic and evidential
markers
- studies of interactionally and/or socially triggered changes in the usage of
markers of epistemic and evidential markers 
- studies of the use of particular markers in particular registers and genres,
with an eye to the interactional and social functions they fulfill there

Papers dealing with any of these issues or other topics relevant to
interactional and social perspectives on epistemic and evidential stance
markers in the history of English up to the present day will be welcome. The
deadline for abstract submission is 15 August 2019, through the ICEHL website.
But in order to formulate the Workshop proposal, we would need you to send us
a title and short description of your paper (just 200 words or so) by April
25, 2019. Please send these short mini-abstracts to skranich at uni-bonn.de.

References: 
Aijmer, Karin (2009). Seem and Evidentiality. Functions of Language 16 (1):
63–88.
Kärkkäinen, Elise. 2003. Epistemic Stance in English Conversation. A
description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think.
Amsterdam, John Benjamins. 
Krug, Manfred. (2000). Emerging Modals: A Corpus-based Study of
Grammaticalization. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Reber, Elisabeth. 2018. Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. A short-term
diachronic study of an evidential practice. Unpublished Habilitation thesis.
University of Potsdam.




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