35.2457, Confs: Mythologies of English

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Subject: 35.2457, Confs: Mythologies of English

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Date: 04-Sep-2024
From: Tim Machan [tmachan at nd.edu]
Subject: Mythologies of English


Mythologies of English

Date: 13-Mar-2025 - 14-Mar-2025
Location: University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway, USA
Contact: Tim Machan
Contact Email: tmachan at nd.edu

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

Meeting Description:

When:   March 13-14, 2025
Where: University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway

Bringing together scholars of the English language and English
historical linguistics from around the globe, Mythologies of English
is a major international symposium to be held at Notre Dame’s London
Gateway center March 13-14, 2025. The conference begins with
recognition that the past five centuries have witnessed dramatic
changes in the grammar, speakers, domains, and uses of English. No
longer the language of primarily one island-country, it is now the
national and even official language of several independent nations and
the most common second language in use today. English is the world’s
first truly global language, even if different regions may have
different grammars, use English for different purposes, and represent
different attitudes towards it. These are all linguistic issues, but
they are also embedded in critical frameworks, or mythologies, of
ideologies, stories, images, and ideas that organize experience.

This conference will focus on the various mythologies that have framed
the English language, both historically and today. These are the
ideological and institutional structures that enable speakers to
conceptualize the language itself and to process specific uses of it.
They enable historiographic narratives that shape how the language and
its uses are understood; whether or not they are true in some absolute
sense, they necessarily reflect and further specific cultural
expectations. Put another way, they constitute a horizon of
expectations that give intellectual and social meaning to the language
and how it functions. As such, they may relate to grammar, usage, the
definition of dialects and other languages, speakers, domains, race,
ethnicity, culture, nationhood, and morality.

Open to the public, “Mythologies of English” features 12 invited
speakers:  Alexandra Beytenbrat (Ben Gurion University, Israel);
Nathalie Dajko (Tulane University): Mark Faulkner (University College,
Dublin); William Kretzschmar (University of Georgia); Marcin Kyrgier
(Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland); Preetha Mani (Rutgers
University); Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago); Lynda
Mugglestone (University of Oxford): Rhiannon Purdie (University of St
Andrews); John Scahill (Keio University, Japan); Gjertrud Stenbrenden
(Inland Norway University); George Walkden (University of Konstanz,
Germany).

Please send any questions to T. W. Machan (tmachan at nd.edu).



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