36.1929, Confs: 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (USA)

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Date: 21-Jun-2025
From: North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) [NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com]
Subject: 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics


8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in
Historical Sociolinguistics
Short Title: NARNiHS 2026

Date: 08-Jan-2026 - 11-Jan-2026
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Meeting URL: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Aug-2025

100% in person
Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
This event offers an opportunity for historical sociolinguistics
scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research.
We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in
related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in New
Orleans for our Eighth Annual Meeting.
Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web:
https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135 .
Call for Papers:
Abstract submission online:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ .
Deadline: Friday, 15 August 2025, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.
Late abstracts will not be considered.
The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
(NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Eighth Annual Meeting in New
Orleans, Thursday, January 8 -- Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 8th
edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a
collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work
for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as
a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical
sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in
productive development of the field’s enduring questions.
NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics,
which is understood as the application and/or development of
sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of
historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly,
the study of the interaction of language and society in historical
periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of
linguistic areas, subdisciplines, methodologies, and adjacent
disciplines easily find their place within historical
sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that
reflect this broad scope.
Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters.
Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations
are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier
presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster
presentation based on determinations in the review process about the
most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that
your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation,
please specify this in your abstract.
Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in
historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of
research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas.
Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical
frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies*
are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be
sufficiently presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding
of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the
*connection of your research to the field of historical
sociolinguistics* should be explicitly outlined in your abstract.
Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection.
Abstract Format Guidelines:
- Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
- Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller
than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman
12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page, providing a full
and robust description of the research. All additional supporting
content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples,
and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No
exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts longer than
one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content
will be rejected without review.
- Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a
poster presentation.
- Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete
anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the
nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless
non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure
to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by
clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it
appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving
the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF
(e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically
anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying
information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name
should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract
submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever
possible will be rejected without review.
General Requirements:
- Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ .
- Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author
abstract and one co-authored abstract.
- Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the
NARNiHS annual meeting and the LSA annual meeting or another LSA
sister society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA).
- After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the
abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of
typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the
abstract is printed in the conference booklet.
- Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or
represent bona fide developments of the same research.
- Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present
their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event.
Contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions.



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