Date: 07-Apr-2010
From: Lin Solvang <ls hum.ku.dk>
Subject: Int. Summer School: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
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Int. Summer School: Sociolinguistic Perspectives Date: 07-Jun-2010 - 12-Jun-2010 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Contact: Lin Solvang Contact Email: lin21 sol.dk Meeting URL: http://www.dgcss.dk Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: Course description: At the LANCHART Centre we have for many years now been concerned with the integration of various strands of sociolinguistics with a view towards fruitful collaboration and integration of results. This is an endeavour from which Ph. D. students as well as more senor researchers would benefit from seeing through. Thus we are all the more happy that we have been able to persuade a number of the discipline's top researchers to focus in their presentations on the different research questions and neighbouring disciplines which they have worked with, in order to give a selected group of students from the global sociolinguistic community a chance to see their own project in a broader perspective. Invitation: The LANCHART Centre at University of Copenhagen is happy to invite PhD students from the international sociolinguistic community to send applications by March 20th for participation in: International Summer School 2010 Sociolinguistic Perspectives, Copenhagen, 7-12 June Plenary lecturers will be Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa, Canada), Dave Britain (University of Bern, Switzerland), Peter Auer (University of Freiburg, Germany), Nik Coupland (University of Cardiff, Wales) and Professor Brian Joseph (Ohio State University, USA). Course director and moderator will be Professor Frans Gregersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Location: The summer school will take place at the University of Copenhagen. The administration of the LANCHART Centre's address: Njalsgade 136, building 27, 5th floor, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, DENMARK. Please note that the exact location of each session will be announced upon arrival. Call for Participation: Reminder: Applications accepted until April 15th. The LANCHART Centre and Gradeast would like to remind you that the deadline for applying the Summer School 2010 - Sociolinguistic Perspectives is April 15th. The faculty will be Peter Auer, David Britain, Brian Joseph, Barbara Johnstone and Shana Poplack with Frans Gregersen as course director. Find more information on www.dgcss.dk and apply here: http://dgcss.hum.ku.dk/summer_school_2010/link1_registration_form/ Application for participation: We accept applications from PhD students, i.e. graduate students who have finished an MA and are working on a PhD project. You can read more about the summer school and fill out the registration form from our homepage www.dgcss.dk You shall apply no later than April 15th and also include an abstract of your project of a maximum of 5 pages. Information about admittance will be sent out no later than May 3rd, 2010. Course Fee: Participation is free of charge if your application is accepted. Due to a grant from the Danish National Research Foundation under its International Talent Recruitment Programme, The LANCHART Centre will pay for all meals during the course (cf. the programme) and lodging at a hostel. However, participants will have to cover their travel costs and meals in connection with arrival and departure. Course certificate and credits: A course certificate will be issued, based on 80% active participation. 4.5 ECTS credits will be awarded by completion of the course. PhD project presentations: As a participating PhD student you are required to present your own project and discuss it with the lecturers and fellow students. You should therefore prepare a presentation lasting a maximum of 30 minutes, which will be followed by 30 minutes of discussion and feedback from faculty and audience. Programme: Monday, June 7th 9:00-9:30 Introduction and Welcome 9:30-10:30 Lecture by Shana Poplack: Historical Perspectives 1: Morpho-Syntactic Change 10:30-10:45 Tea and coffee 10:45-12:00 Workshop and plenary discussion 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:30 Student Presentations 15:30-16:00 Tea and coffee 16:00-18:00 Student Presentations 19:00 Dinner Tuesday, June 8th 9:30-10:30 Lecture by Brian D. Joseph: Historical Perspectives 2: Phonetic Change 10:30-10:45 Tea and coffee 10:45-12:00 Workshop and plenary discussion 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:30 Student Presentations 15:30-16:00 Tea and coffee 16:00-18:00 Student Presentations 19:00 Dinner Wednesday, June 9th 9:30-10:30 Lecture by Peter Auer: The Perspective from Dialectology 10:30-10:45 Tea and coffee 10:45-12:00 Workshop and plenary discussion 12:00-13:30 Lunch 19:00 Dinner Thursday, June 10th 9:00-11:00 Student Presentations 11:00-11:30 Tea and coffee 11:30-12:30 Student Presentations 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-18:00 Panel Discussion: What can Sociolinguists Learn from Neighbouring Disciplines. 19:00 Dinner Friday, June 11th 9:30-10:30 Lecture by David Britain: The Perspective from Human Geography 10:30-10:45 Tea and coffee 10:45-12:00 Workshop and plenary discussion 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:30 Student Presentations 15:30-16:00 Tea and coffee 16:00-18:00 Student Presentations 19:00 Dinner party Saturday, June 12th 10:00-12:00 Student Presentations 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:30 Lecture by Nik Coupland: The Delicate Relationships between the Various Perspectives and Interaction 14:30-14:45 Tea and coffee 14:45-16:00 Concluding Discussion Departure Lecturers: Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at the Ohio State University. His main areas of interest are historical linguistics, Greek linguistics, Balkan linguistics, and morphological theory, with secondary areas of interest being language and ethnicity, Sanskrit linguistics, and Indo-European linguistics in general. David Britain is Professor of Modern English Linguistics at the University of Bern. Until January 2010, he was senior lecturer at the University of Essex (Department of Language and Linguistics), and continues to supervise some Essex PhD students. His main research interests are language variation and change, dialect contact and new dialect formation, second dialect acquisition and the dialectology-human geography interface. Shana Poplack is Distinguished University Professor, Canada Research Chair and director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, Department of Linguistics. Her fields of interest are linguistic variation and change, constraints on language mixing, language contact and linguistic convergence, the genesis of African American Vernacular English, language ideology, normative prescription and praxis Peter Auer is Professor of Germanic Philology (Linguistics) at the University of Freiburg, and currently one of the directors of the University of Freiburg's Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS). Peter Auer's research interests span bilingualism, sociolinguistics, interaction analysis, dialectology, syntax of spoken language, phonology, and prosody.
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