30.4576, Calls: English; French; German; History of Linguistics, Philosophy of Language/Germany

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Subject: 30.4576, Calls: English; French; German; History of Linguistics, Philosophy of Language/Germany

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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:38:08
From: Cordula Neis [cordula.neis at uni-flensburg.de]
Subject: Language and Language Awareness in the History of Linguistics

 
Full Title: Language and Language Awareness in the History of Linguistics 

Date: 18-Jun-2020 - 20-Jun-2020
Location: Flensburg, Germany, Germany 
Contact Person: Cordula Neis
Meeting Email: cordula.neis at uni-flensburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics; Philosophy of Language 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     German (deu)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

>From June 18th-20th, 2020, the XXXI. International Colloquium of the
“Studienkreis ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft’” (SGdS) on Language and
Language Awareness in the History of Linguistics will take place at the
Europa-Universität Flensburg. The choice of topics may range from antiquity to
the present.


Call for Papers:

Since antiquity, there has been a lively debate on questions dealing with
language and language awareness.

Over the centuries, the Renaissance, especially turned out not merely to be an
age of discovery, but also an age of an arising language awareness, as
evidenced by the whole range of apologetic texts which spread all over Europe
at that time: 
Sperone Speroni, Dialogo della lingua (1542), Joachim Du Bellay, Deffence et
illustration de la langue françoyse (1549), Richard Carew, On the Excellency
of the English Tongue or Martin Opitz, De contemptu linguae teutonicae (1617)
and Schottelius and his Lob der Teutschen Haubtsprache (1663). 

During the 17th century, especially in France, tendencies of linguistic
standardization come to the fore which are reflected in the purism of the
Académie française. Apologetic texts on the French language and its alleged
clarity are expressed in a large amount of treatises published in France
during the 17th and 18th centuries such as Dominique Bouhours‘ Entretiens
d’Ariste et d’Eugène, Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique or Rivarol’s
Discours sur l’universalité de la langue française.

This apologetic manner of discourse is echoed even today in French linguistic
discussions as well as in France’s language policy. On the one hand, an
increasing demand for an appropriate appreciation of regional and minority
languages together with their social and political acceptance has to be
noticed. On the other hand, due to globalization, there is the worldwide usage
of English as an indispensable and universal lingua franca.

Over the centuries, language in Europe turned out to be an essential component
of cultural identity. Thus, the development of a European linguistic awareness
has been closely linked to the formation of European nations and nation
states. The emergence of nation states in Europe in the 19th century
facilitated the evolution of social and cultural mentalities as well as the
manifestation of individual and collective language awareness.

The main interest of this conference will be the expression of language
awareness in different European countries in past and present times. Speakers
can provide comments and opinions about their own and other languages,
language assessment, language criticism as a manifestation of language
awareness, as well as the evaluation of specific language usage. This usage
can be expressed as the acceptance or rejection of particular linguistic
forms. The choice of presentation topics is relatively free within the range
of the history of linguistics. We warmly welcome interdisciplinary
presentations as well.

Colleagues who would like to participate in this conference, in particular
those who would like to give papers, are kindly asked to register as soon as
possible (by 31 January 2020 at the very latest). A title and an abstract of
c. 200-300 words (in German, English or French) should be submitted to the
following email address:

languageawareness2020 at uni-flensburg.de

Presentations of papers are strictly limited to a maximum of 30 minutes,
followed by a discussion of 15 minutes.
Information on the selection of papers and further details concerning travel
and accommodation will be available in the first half of February 2020.




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