31.809, Calls: Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 31.809, Calls: Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:10:03
From: Tim Machan [tmachan at nd.edu]
Subject: The Once and Future English

 
Full Title: The Once and Future English 

Date: 11-Mar-2021 - 13-Mar-2021
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Tim Machan
Meeting Email: tmachan at nd.edu
Web Site: http://sites.nd.edu/once-and-future-english/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

This conference begins with the notion that English is today used by about 1.5
billion people, less than a third of whom speak it as their first language.
This minority-majority reversal has significantly impacted the grammatical
characteristics of English, the demographics of the Anglophone population, the
domains in which English is used, and attitudes towards the language, which
has been described both as a venue for increased global communication and as a
cultural and economic predator. The history of the language is being rewritten
as well, from one defined by conventional periodization and the triumph of
English as a Germanic language, to one that has reoriented the historical and
contemporary significance of the language’s traditional homelands. The Once
and Future English asks the question: How will English’s present and past look
to future speakers?

Plenary Speakers:
Anne Curzan, University of Michigan
Seth Lerer, University of California – San Diego
Lynda Mugglestone, University of Oxford


Call for Papers: 

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers on any of the following threads: 
mutual intelligibility; written and spoken language; the impact of language
contact; historical periodization; social and cultural consequences of the
spread of English; the definition of English and of Anglophone speech
communities; resistance to the spread of English; the status of English in
relation to other languages; the relative status of current varieties of
English; L2 speakers and the future of English; grammatical changes in
progress; written standards; and English language historiography.

Interested speakers should send a 300-word abstract, including names and
affiliations, to onceandfutureenglish at nd.edu. 

Submissions are due by August 15, 2020.  Please specify which of the threads
for which you are applying.

Any questions should be directed to the conference organizer, Tim Machan
(tmachan at nd.edu).




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