35.2129, Calls: Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2025

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Subject: 35.2129, Calls: Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2025

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Date: 26-Jul-2024
From: Anna Havinga [Anna.Havinga at bristol.ac.uk]
Subject: Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2025


Full Title: Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2025
Short Title: HiSoN2025

Date: 21-May-2025 - 23-May-2025
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Anna Havinga & James Hawkey
Meeting Email: hison-conference2025 at bristol.ac.uk
Web Site: https://hison2025.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Conference theme: HiSoN 20 years on: past, present, future

The 20-year anniversary edition of the historical sociolinguistics
network conference is taking place at the University of Bristol (UK)
from 21 to 23 May 2025.

In 2005, Nils Langer, Stephan Elspaß, Joachim Scharloth, and Wim
Vandenbussche organised a conference on "Language History from Below:
Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages from 1700–2000" at the
University of Bristol, which led to the foundation of the Historical
Sociolinguistic Network. Since then, research in historical
sociolinguistics has flourished and the network has grown beyond its
Germanic roots. At the 20-year anniversary edition of the Historical
Sociolinguistics Network Conference, we will return to and build on
the study of language history ‘from below’ by looking at current
trends in historical sociolinguistic research, such as the study of
historical multilingualism and research on linguistic impacts of
colonialism, to identify future directions of the field.

Over the past decades, historical sociolinguistics has grown and
diversified considerably, contributing to our increasingly
multifaceted understanding of language histories. We would like to
take this opportunity to return to origins of the Historical
Sociolinguistics Network, both geographically and figuratively. The
first conference sought to offer an alternative to the traditional
historiography of the Germanic languages by moving beyond
‘teleological and isolationist approaches’ that ‘focused on standard
or prestige varieties’. This view ‘from below’ has undergone
significant development in scope, having moved beyond its original
Germanic focus, and this conference will provide a moment for us all
to reflect and take stock. Where have we come from – how are the
original aims of the Network reflected in our current practice? Where
are we now – how can we use historical sociolinguistic theories and
methods to address current challenges? And where are we going – how
will our discipline grow and adapt in an ever-changing world?

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Joanna Kopaczyk (University of Glasgow)
Prof. Nils Langer (Europa-Universität Flensburg)
Prof. Israel Sanz-Sánchez (West Chester University)

Conference organisers: Anna Havinga & James Hawkey, School of Modern
Languages, University of Bristol

Call for Papers:

We invite suggestions for papers dealing with aspects of language and
society in the past. Topics and (sub)disciplines might include, but
are not limited to:
 - Language variation and change
 - Historical multilingualism, language contact, and multilingual
practices
 - Language maintenance, language shift and heritage languages
 - Language standardization, norms, prescriptivism and purism
 - Language policy and planning in the past
 - Language ideologies, beliefs and attitudes in the past
 - Language history ‘from below’
 - Historical text types, registers, genres and domains
 - Methods for historical sociolinguists, including corpus linguistics
 - Historical dialectology and geolinguistics
 - Historical pragmatics and discourse analysis
 - History of linguistics and history of language teaching.

All papers need to include historical as well as sociolinguistic
aspects. We welcome abstracts for two different formats (individual
papers and thematic panels):

Individual papers are formal presentations on original research by one
or more authors, who will be allotted 30-minute slots at the
conference (20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for
discussion). Abstracts for individual paper presentations must not
exceed 500 words (incl. title and references).

Thematic panels, roundtables or workshops should follow the 30-minute
structure of the conference. We have a strong preference for shorter,
focused events (e.g. an introductory paper, 3–4 papers by different
contributors, and a final discussion). Panel convenors are expected to
invite contributors and discussants in advance, and submit one full
proposal. This proposal includes the overall aims and rationale of the
event (max. 500 words) as well as the names, affiliations, and short
abstracts of 200–300 words for each contribution (incl. introductory
paper and/or final discussion). Please note that panel convenors take
active responsibility for the quality of all contributions and are
expected to guide their invited participants through the formal
process as well as to chair the panel.

Please submit your abstract by 1 October 2024 via
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/HiSoN2025/.



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