Call for Papers: This is for special interest to historians and linguists:
A fine conference is to be held by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network
(HiSoN) with the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research
Council (AHRC)
International Conference on
Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography
April 2nd to April 4th, 2009
Burwalls, University of Bristol
with
Robert Evans (University of Oxford, UK)
Peter Trudgill (Agder University, Norway)
Tomasz Kamusella (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Juan Hernandez-Campoy (University of Murcia, Spain)
Brian Joseph (Ohio State University, USA)
What are the barriers to collaboration between history and linguistics and
how do we overcome them?
Interdisciplinary research has been one of the buzzwords in academic
research for a number of years, yet - at least in the humanities - it
appears that little actual progress has been made with regard to bringing
different disciplines, e.g. social historians and sociolinguists together
to jointly tackle methodological, programmatic, and practical problems.
This conference seeks to address key problems related to the nature of
interdisciplinary research in sociolinguistics and social history. Papers
are invited to present and discuss current research problems and findings on
Social/linguistic history from below: the shift towards a focus on the
language and living conditions of the underpriviledged
Historians’ view of language, linguists’ view of history: the necessity of
an understanding of the other discipline to pursue research in one’s own
Identity formation and social conflicts: the use of language as a social
tool in political and social conflicts
Communicative spaces: the use and restriction of communication in
geographical and imagined spaces
Historical semantics: the changes in the meaning and significance of words
and concepts
Historical discourse analysis and pragmatics: the changes in ways people
speak, act, and communicate
Corpora, editorial practice, data interpretation, translation:
methodological problems associated with investigating social history and
historical language(s)
Joint presentations by historians and linguists are particularly
encouraged. There will be a number of small bursaries for postgraduates to
help with costs.
Please send your abstracts of 250 words by Dec 15th, 2008 to
Nils Langer, School of Modern Languages, 21 Woodland Road, University of
Bristol, BS8 1TE
For enquiries, please contact [log in to unmask]
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Dr Nils Langer
Reader in German Linguistics
School of Modern Languages
University of Bristol
Bristol, England
BS8 1TE
0044-(0)117-928 9841
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http://www.bris.ac.uk/german
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The Historical Sociolinguistics network:
http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/
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