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<div><b>Making Waves in Historical Sociolinguistics</b></div>
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<div>Organized by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network – HiSoN and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics – LUCL </div>
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<div>30 May – 1 June 2018</div>
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<div>What are the next steps in historical sociolinguistics? Where is the discipline heading? Which challenges and opportunities are we facing? These are the issues we want to address at the next HiSoN conference on historical sociolinguistics. Over the past
few decades, the field of historical sociolinguistics has developed from a niche that brought together historical linguists, philologists and sociolinguists to a vibrant and established subdiscipline of its own. The results have been impressive: new data sets
have been collected, corpora have been built, theories, methods and analyses have been presented in papers, books and journals. At the 2018 conference, at a time when the Leiden-based <i>Going Dutch</i>-project is nearing its end, we want to reflect on the
state-of-the-art in our field, and identify new avenues of historical-sociolinguistic research.</div>
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<div>Possible issues to be addressed include the following. Are hot topics in modern sociolinguistics, such as <i>contact</i>, <i>migration</i> and <i>identity</i>, sufficiently represented in historical sociolinguistics? If not, how can we operationalize them?
What about key concepts in historical linguistics, such as <i>grammaticalization</i>, <i>constructionalization</i> and <i>subjectification</i>? If we seek to integrate internal and external factors in explaining language change, do these concepts need to become
more integrated into our analyses? Are <i>stylization</i> and <i>enregisterment</i> useful concepts in the analysis of historical situations? Are so-called third-wave studies of historical situations feasible at all – in the frequent absence of detailed information
about individual writers and their identities? Which languages and language groups are still conspicuously absent from the field? Can we extend the historical-sociolinguistic approach to ancient languages, or to contexts with only a recent written tradition?
Which methodological innovations can further our field and its analytical adequacy? What kinds of data from the written record are still waiting for us to study?</div>
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<div>We are looking for historical-sociolinguistic papers that identify a promising avenue of historical-sociolinguistic research, in terms of data, method or theory. Papers are 20 minutes excluding Q&A. Abstracts of max. 300 words (references included) can
be sent to <a href="mailto:hison2018@hum.leidenuniv.nl"><font color="blue"><u>hison2018@hum.leidenuniv.nl</u></font></a>. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 January 2018. Notification of acceptance will be given before 1 February 2018. </div>
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<div><b>Keynote speakers</b></div>
<div>James Clackson (University of Cambridge) – Sociolinguistics of ancient languages, esp. Latin and Greek</div>
<div>Kristine Horner (University of Sheffield) – Language politics, multilingualism and mobility</div>
<div>Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town) – Migration, language and social change</div>
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<div><b>Organizing committee</b></div>
<div>Andreas Krogull, Gijsbert Rutten, Jos Schaeken, Bob Schoemaker, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Marijke van der Wal</div>
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<div><b>Contact</b></div>
<div>Call for papers: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.universiteitleiden.nl_en_events_2018_05_call-2Dfor-2Dpapers-2Dhison&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8XUotgnvQZj3ynAQKGZrWCxziEaZbQMbKl-uXfvBDoA&s=Y_Y12kWcaQBIcqfWJf-BOT4eVM5tAMmQe5Xf56yLfss&e="><font color="blue"><u>https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2018/05/call-for-papers-hison</u></font></a> </div>
<div>Email: <a href="mailto:hison2018@hum.leidenuniv.nl"><font color="blue"><u>hison2018@hum.leidenuniv.nl</u></font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="2" color="gray"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Dr. Gijsbert Rutten</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri" size="2" color="gray"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Senior researcher Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri" size="2" color="gray"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Current project: Going Dutch. The Construction of Dutch in Policy, Practice and Discourse, 1750-1850 (NWO VIDI grant)</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="2" color="gray"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Universiteit Leiden</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri" size="2" color="gray"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="2" color="gray"><span style="font-size:9pt;">NL – 2300 RA Leiden</span></font></div>
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