Lesbos 2007 - Summer School

Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON)

1st Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics

supported by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Agder University College Kristiansand, the Universität Augsburg, the University of Bristol, and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB)

16. August – 23. August 2007

Metochi, Lesbos, Greece

with

Peter Trudgill (Fribourg, CH & Agder, N)

Sociolinguistic dialect typology

Dennis Preston (Michigan, USA):

Language attitudes, ideologies and folk linguistics: Cognitive, synchronic, and diachronic approaches

Ernst Håkon Jahr (Agder UC, N)

Language planning in a historical sociolinguistic perspective: the  case of Modern Norwegian

Kristine Horner (Leeds, UK):

Language policy across time and space: the legitimation and promotion of Luxembourgish

Stephan Elspaß  (Augsburg, D)

Methods of Historical Sociolinguistics: texts, transcriptions, corpora and analysis

Kristin Killie (Tromsø, N) &

Agnete Nesse (Bodø / Bergen, N)

Language contact in a historical perspective

Eleni Karantzola (Rhodes, Greece)

Cappadocian as a Case of Contact-Induced Language Change

 


No more places available - we are fully sold out!


This is the first summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) and it will offer classes by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguists. The venue is the Metochi study centre, a monastery on the Greek island of Lesbos. 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. For travel links and general tourist information about the island, click here.

The school will last for one week and the cost of 499 Euros includes accommodation, three meals per day, and tuition.

Abstracts of the teaching programme can be found here.

Maps of Metochi and Lesbos

And here is a copy of the Teaching Schedule.

Travel links / tourist information: click here.


contact: Nils Langer, Senior Lecturer in German, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK

nils.langer@bris.ac.uk

website: www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool

venue: www.hia.no/metochi OR http://ezweb.hia.no/en/portaler/om_hia/organisasjonen/hia_videre/metochi

HISON: www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison