Third Summer School on Historical Sociolinguistics, 20 - 27 August 2009, at Metochi, Lesvos (Greece)

By: gna
Organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) The venue is the University of Agder's Metochi study centre, a former monastery on the Greek island of Lesvos.

Teachers this year will be:

 

PETER TRUDGILL (AGDER, NORWAY)

Language contact and linguistic change in early

post-Roman Britain: sociolinguistic insights

 

LAURA WRIGHT (CAMBRIDGE, UK)

Historical sociolinguistics and historical

pragmatics: 18th c. printed ephemera and the

London upper working-class sociolect

 

JEROEN DARQUENNES (NAMUR, BELGIUM)

Contact and conflict along the Germanic-Romance language border

 

HELEN KELLY-HOLMES (LIMERICK, IRELAND)

Minority languages and media engagement:

discourses and practices in and on Irish

 

ERNST HÅKON JAHR (AGDER, NORWAY)

The Arctic Pidgin Russenorsk

 

NILS LANGER (BRISTOL, UK)

Prescriptive grammars and linguistic purism

 

MARK JANSE (GENT, BELGIUM)

Asia Minor Greek: borrowing, interference, and the mixed language debate

 

GRO-RENEE RAMBØ (AGDER, NORWAY)

Scandinavian - Low German contact in the late Middle Ages

 

Classes will take place in the morning and early evening and you will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session.

The school will last for one week and the cost of 375 British Pounds includes accommodation, three meals per day, and tuition, and an excursion.

 

If you register and pay in full before May 1st, 2009, we will give you a discount of 75 British Pounds, i.e. you will only pay 300 British Pounds.

 

Please note that there are only 40 places available.

 

Contact: Nils Langer, Reader in German

Linguistics, School of Modern Languages,

University of Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK

nils.langer@bris.ac.uk