LINGUIST List 14.2894

Thu Oct 23 2003

Calls: Historical Ling/Scotland; Historical Ling/Italy

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  • patrick, Conference on Historical News Discourse

    Message 1: LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES

     Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:57:24 +0000
    From: saills04 <saills04st-andrews.ac.uk>
    Subject: LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES


    LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITTORALS OF WESTERN EUROPE

    Short Title: SAILL04

    Date: 11-Jun-2004 - 13-Jun-2004 Location: St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Contact: Snezha Mathewson Contact Email: saills04st-andrews.ac.uk Meeting URL:

    http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/modlangs/saills/conference2004.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The conference, organised by the St Andrews Institute for Language and Linguistic Studies (SAILLS), in collaboration with the Europ�ischer Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim (ELAMA), will explore the effects of language contact (since 1500) in four areas of western Europe: Scandinavia and the Low Countries, the British Isles, France and the Iberian Peninsula. While most attention will be devoted to contact between the traditional languages of Europe, space will be given to contact with immigrant languages from outside the Continent.

    For further information please contact: Snezha Mathewson (conference administrator) e-mail: saills04st-andrews.ac.uk School of Modern Languages ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH

    FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

    LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITORALS OF WESTERN EUROPE EUROLINGUSTICS WEST

    St Andrews University, June 11-13 2004

    Plenary speakers:

    Peter Trudgill (Fribourg) Sture Ureland (Mannheim) Peter Nelde (Brussels) Ralph Penny (London)

    While both Neogrammarians and Structuralists recognise the effects of language contact on the development of the languages of Europe, especially in the remote past, they have on the whole preferred endogenous and language-internal explanations of language change. Nowadays, linguists are perhaps less subject to the influence of nationalism and the cult of language 'purity', and more sensitive to the mobility of populations and to the role of exogenous influences.

    This conference, organised by the St Andrews Institute for Language and Linguistic Studies (SAILLS), in collaboration with the Europ�ischer Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim (ELAMA), will explore the effects of language contact (since 1500) in four areas of western Europe: Scandinavia and the Low Countries, the British Isles, France and the Iberian Peninsula. While most attention will be devoted to contact between the traditional languages of Europe, space will be given to contact with immigrant languages from outside the Continent.

    Papers will include, but need not be limited to, topics such as:

    - levelling and koin�ization - lexical borrowing - language obsolescence and death - language shift and language planning

    For further information please contact: Snezha Mathewson (conference administrator) e-mail: saills04st-andrews.ac.uk

    School of Modern Languages ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH

    Message 2: Conference on Historical News Discourse

     Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:59:33 +0000
    From: patrick <patricklocaltrans.net>
    Subject: Conference on Historical News Discourse


    Conference on Historical News Discourse Short Title: CHINED

    Date: 02-Sep-2004 - 03-Sep-2004 Location: Florence, Italy Contact: Patrick Studer Contact Email: chinedchined.org Meeting URL: http://www.chined.org

    Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics Subject Language: English

    Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2004

    Meeting Description:

    First International Conference on Historical News Discourse. We are pleased to announce the first International Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED), to be held in Florence, Italy, 2-3 September 2004. We invite contributions dealing with news discourse from the Early Modern English Period (c. 1500-1800). News discourse will be understood in its widest sense as belonging to the sphere of public discourse, thus including a variety of speech situations (political speeches, proclamations, announcements, orders, etc.), as well as referring to the more specific text genres traditionally associated with the domain of news, such as ballads, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, correspondence, histories, annals, etc. The focus of the conference will be on:

    - Methodologies in collecting and analysing linguistic data from the above areas, both quantitative and qualitative, diachronic and synchronic;

    - Sociolinguistic, pragmatic factors and the study of early news discourse;

    - Domains of language change (lexical, syntactic, textual); situations motivating language change (e.g. language contact, translations, etc.);

    - Comparison of different text types; study of one specific text type.

    We solicit submissions for 20 minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts should be no more than 400 words in length, including examples and references.

    - Deadline for receipt of abstracts: January 31, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2004 All abstract submissions will be done electronically. Please visit http://www.chined.org/submission.html to submit an abstract. For further information or queries, please contact the conference organisers Nicholas Brownlees or Patrick Studer on chinedchined.org.

    Organisers:

    Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence, Italy, n.brownleeslibero.it)

    Patrick Studer (University of Limerick, Ireland, patricklocaltrans.net)