Labnet: Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7-13 August, Univ. of Bristol, UK

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From: Wim Vandenbussche [mailto:wvdbussc at vub.ac.be] 



1st Announcement

 

2nd HiSoN summer school in Historical Sociolinguistics

Aug 7-13, 2008, University of Bristol, UK

 

"History and Language, Linguists and Historians" - a summer school on methodologies, research outcomes, and unanswered questions, taught by leading historians and linguists!

 

£150/£180 for accommodation, teaching, and excursion

supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Universität Augsburg, and the University of Bristol.

 

some bursaries available

for further info, please visit

http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool  <http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool> 

 

This is the second summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) and it will offer classes by leading historians with an interest in language and sociolinguists with an interest in history. There will be seven teaching units in which you will explore a number of issues relating to the different methods, intellectual premises, and disciplinary frameworks of pure historians and historical sociolinguists working on a range of European languages and historical periods. There will be six hours of teaching per day, complemented by discussion groups sessions during which you can present your own research. There will only be space for 45 graduate students and young researchers, so you are advised to book early.

 

Courses include:

 

Thomas Sokoll (Hagen) <http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/geschichte/institut/team/thomas.sokoll_lg1.shtml>  &Stephan Elspaß (Augsburg) <http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/germanistik/sprachwissenschaft/mitarbeiter/stelspass/> 

The labour of language and the language of labour: letters from the labouring poor in nineteenth-century England and Germany

Joachim Scharloth (Zurich) <http://www.ds.unizh.ch/scharloth/>  & Martin Klimke (Washington / Heidelberg) <http://maklimke.com/> 

Speaking about History: Historical and Linguistic Dimensions of Oral History

Wim Vandenbussche (VU Brussels) <http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~wvdbussc/> 

Language, nation and social struggle:  the Belgian case

Joseph Salmons (UW Madison) <http://german.lss.wisc.edu/facdes/salmons.htm> 

Historical language contact: German and English in the American Midwest

David Willis (Cambridge) <http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/staff/dwew2/> 

Language contact and  maintenance in the Celtic countries

Derek Offord (Bristol) <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/russian/staff/offord/offord.html> 

Language and National Identity in Russia

Mair Parry (Bristol) <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/italian/staff/parry.html>  & Stephen Milner (Manchester) <http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/italian/StephenJMilner/> 

Communicative strategies in medieval Italian society

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