Registration is now open for the conference 'Sociological Theories of Language in the USSR, 1917-1938', which will take place at the University of Sheffield from 9 to 11 September 2006.
The conference is a key component of the project 'The Rise of Sociological Linguistics in the Soviet Union, 1917–1938: Institutions, Ideas and Agendas',
directed by Craig Brandist (see http://www.shef.ac.uk/bakhtin/projects/sociolinguistics).
The conference programme and registration form may be downloaded from
http://www.shef.ac.uk/bakhtin/projects/sociolinguistics/conference.html.
All queries about the conference should be directed to the contacts named in the
programme and booking form.
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Sociological Theories of Language in the USSR, 1917-1938
9-11 September 2006
University of Sheffield, UK
Saturday 9 September
9.00 Registration and Welcome
Introduction: The Problem of Sociological Linguistics
[Проблема социолингвистики]
9.30 Vladimir M. Alpatov Советская лингвистика 20-30-х гг. ХХ в. и научное наследие; [Soviet Linguistics of the 1920s and 30s and its scholarly heritage].
10.30 Coffee break
Panel 1: Soviet language theory: new agendas and horizons
[Советское теоретическое языкознание: новая проблематика и новые горизонты]
11.00 Elena Simonato (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) ‘Social Phonology’ in the USSR in the 1920-s; [«Социальная фонология» в СССР 1920-х гг.]
11.30 Katya Chown (University of Sheffield) TBA
12.00 Ekaterina Velmezova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) The ‘Social Semantics’ of M.M. Pokrovskii and N. Ia. Marr; [«Социальная семантика» М.М. Покровского и Н.Я. Марра].
12.30 Lunch
Panel 2: The development and application of Voloshinov’s sociolinguistic ideas;
[Развитие и использование идей В.Н. Волошинова в области социолингвистики]
2.00 Patrick Seriot (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) The Right-wing Sources of Left-wing Sociology of Language in Soviet Social Linguistics of the Inter-war Period; «Правые» истоки «левой» социологии языка в советской социолингвистике межвоенного периода.
2.30 Inna Ageeva (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) «Социальность» как понятие и как реальность: теория знака В.Н. Волошинова в контексте научных дискуссий начала ХХ в. [‘Sociality’ as concept and as reality: Voloshinov’s theory of the sign in the context of scholarly discussions at the beginning of the 20th Century].
3.00 Peter E Jones (Sheffield Hallam University) Voloshinov’s View of ‘Social’ and His Critique of Linguistics: Observations from a Modern Integrationist Perspective; [«Социальное» в понимании Волошинова и его критика языкознания: наблюдения с современной «интеграционистской» позиции]
3.30 Coffee break
Panel 3: Psychology, sociology and language
[Психология, социология и язык]
4.00 Mladen Uhlik (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) TBC
4.30 Ilia Kalinin Между генетическим изоморфизмом и историческим материализмом (проблема рудиментарных форм сознания в марксистском языкознании и советской психологии 1920-1930-х гг.); [Between genetic isomorphism and historical materialism (the problem of rudimentary forms of consciousness in Marxist linguistics and Soviet psychology of the 1920s and 30s)].
5.00 Craig Brandist (University of Sheffield) TBA
7.30 Conference meal
Sunday 10 September
Panel 4: Language, Speech and Class Struggle
[Язык, речь и классовая борьба]
9.00 Kapitolina Fedorova (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) Language as a Battlefield: Class Struggle in Language and Linguistics; [Язык как арена боевых действий: классовая борьба в языке и языкознании].
9.30 Viktoria B. Gulida (Sankt-Petersburg State University, Russia) О масштабном характере ранней советской социолингвистики; [On the scale of early Soviet sociolinguistics].
10.00 Michael Gorham (University of Florida, USA) ‘Kul'tura iazyka’ in Stalinist Russia”; [«Культура языка» в сталинской России].
10.30 Coffee break
Panel 5: Reworking the scholarly heritage
[Переосмысление научного наследия]
11.00 Oleg V. Nikitin (Moscow Regional University, Russia) Деятельность А.М. Пешковского в 1920-1930-е гг. и развитие советского языкознания; [The work of A.M. Peshkovskii in the 1920s and 30s and early Soviet linguistics].
11.30 Ornella Discacciatti (University of Milan, Italy) «В начале было слово...». Составление «Толкового словаря» Д.Н. Ушакова; [‘In the beginning was the word…’. The compilation of D.N. Ushakov’s ‘explanatory dictionary’].
12.00 Matthias Aumüller (University of Hamburg, Germany) Viktor Zhirmunskii and German ‘Mundartforshung’; [Виктор Жирмунский и немецкая диалектология (Mundartforshung)].
12.30 Lunch
Panel 6: Language Theory and Language Policy: Ideas of language construction and rationalization)
[Теория языка и языковая политика: идеи строительства и рационализации языка]
2.00 Alexandr D. Dulichenko (University of Tartu, Estonia) Идея международного искусственного языка в дебрях ранней советской социолингвистики; [The idea of an artificial international language in the labyrinths of early Soviet sociolinguistics].
2.30 Sébastien Moret (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Some Attempts of Rationalizing the Russian Language in the USSR of the 1920-ies; [О попытках рационализации русского языка в СССР в 1920-е гг.].
3.00 Valerii Grechko (Tokyo University, Japan) Между утопией и “Realpolitik”: вопрос о всемирном языке в лингво-политическом контексте 1920-30-х гг.; [Between utopia and ‘Realpolitik’: the problem of a global language in the linguistic and political context of the 1920s and 30s].
3.30 Coffee break
Panel 7: Historical context
[Исторический контекст]
4.00 Michael G. Smith (Purdue University, USA) Stalin and the Politics of Language Intervention; [Сталин и политика языкового вмешательства].
4.30 Nikolai L. Vasil'ev (Mordvinia State University, Saransk, Russia) Этнические факторы и потенциальные «административные ресурсы» в становлении советской социолингвистики и нового учения о языке (яфетидологии); [Ethnic factors and potential ‘administrative resources’ in the development of Soviet sociolinguistics and the new doctrine of language (Japhetidology)].
5.00 Pavel Kononenko (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) Russian Sociolinguistics against a Background: Scientific and Social Revolutions and the Rise of a New Discipline; [Российская социолингвистика в канве исторических событий: научная и общественная революция и становление новой дисциплины].
Monday 11 September
Panel 8: Methodology
[Методологические поиски]
9.00 Irina Ivanova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Эмпиризм, позитивизм, марксизм и методы лингвистических исследований в России конца ХIХ-начала ХХ вв.; [Empiricism, positivism, Marxism and the methods of linguistic research in Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries].
9.30 Mika Lähteenmäki (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) On Different Understandings of ‘Sociology’ in Soviet Linguistics of the 1920-30s; [О различном понимании социологии в советской лингвистике 1920-1930-х гг.]
10.00 Nilolai A. Pan'kov (Moscow State University, Russia) М.М. Бахтин и Н.Я. Марр: Теория романа и концепция скрещения языков; [M.M. Bakhtin and N.Ia. Marr: the theory of the novel and the idea of the crossing of languages].
10.30 Coffee break
Panel 9: Language and Art Scholarship
[Языковедение и искусствоведение]
11.00 Maria Candida Ghidini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano) Текущие задачи и вечные проблемы: от чистой науки – к прикладной. Густав Шпет и его школа в Государственной Академии Художественных Наук; [Current tasks and eternal problems: from pure to applied science. Gustav Shpet and his School in the State Academy of Artistic Studies)].
11.30 Michela Venditti (University of L’Aquila, Italy) Внутренняя форма слова в понимании Г. Шпета; [The inner form of the word in thework of Gustav Shpet].
12.00 Vladimir V. Feshchenko (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences) «Лингвистическая эстетика» на фронтах художественного и научного авангарда (Россия – Советский Союз, 1910-1930 гг.); ‘Linguistic Aesthetics’ on the Front Lines of Artistic and Scientific Avant-Garde (Russia – Soviet Union, 1910-1930).
12.30 Lunch
Panel 10: The borders of linguistics
[Границы лингвистики]
2.00 Ken Hirshkop (University of Waterloo, Canada) Linguistic Technology or Linguistic Politics?: Radical Soviet Linguistics and Scientific Discourse in the early Twentieth Century; [Лингвистическая технология или лингвистическая политика: радикальный характер советской лингвистики и научный дискурс в начале ХХ в.]
2.30 Vladislava Reznik (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Poetics, Linguistics, Sociology: Where Does the Border Lie?; [Поэтика, лингвистика, социология: где лежит водораздел?]
3.00 Alexandr N. Dmitriev (Journal Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (Moscow), Institute of the history of natural and technical sciences, St. Petersburg branch) Язык литературы и язык риторики в работах Виктора Гофмана 1920-1930-х гг.; [The language of literature and the language of rhetoric in the work of Viktor Gofman].
3.30 Coffee break
4.00 Conclusions
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