Colocviul internațional al Departamentului de Lingvistică, ediția a XX-a, 20-21 noiembrie 2020

Date: 20-Nov-2020 – 21-Nov-2020
Location: BUCHAREST, Romania
Contact Person: Carmen Mîrzea Vasile
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://litere.ro/2020/08/01/colocviul-international-al-departamentului-de-lingvistica/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; History of Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Romanian

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020

Meeting Description:

Date: November 20‒21, 2020
Organizers: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest

This workshop will be held as part of the twentieth Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest.

The workshop is intended to foster a deeper understanding of the standardization process and linguistic variable norm(s), by comparing similar cases in different languages and cultures, in a sociolinguistic framework. Standardization will be considered in its relationship with language evaluation, ideologies, purism and folk linguistics. Special attention will be paid to norm variability and the effects of implicit or explicit norms on language change.

The workshop aims to find answers to the following queries:
– Are there more convergences or more differences in the standardization processes, both in diachrony and in the contemporary state of national languages?
– Is there a general tendency of relaxing norms and accepting register hybridization? What is the balance between power and weakness of regulatory institutions, and between norm acceptance and norm criticism?
– Is there a specific online metadiscourse on language norm(s)?
– Which are the similar constructions differently standardized in various languages and how are they standardized (e.g. agreement in number and gender for coordinated, partitive, collective expressions; “agreement” of adverbs and invariability of adjectives; clitic doubling; negative concord; feminization of profession nouns, etc.)?
– What effects does the standardization of one level of language have on other levels (e.g. writing norms on pronunciation)? How similar are languages in this respect?

The workshop will be held online using Google Meet platform. A few days before the event, participants will receive the meeting link to join the workshop.

No registration fee is applied.

Call for Papers:

Papers may focus on a particular language, investigated either synchronically or diachronically or may compare phenomena from two or more languages (genetically related, belonging to the same areal, but also completely different).

Each presentation will last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion. The workshop languages are Romanian, English and French.

Abstracts, no longer than 500 words (references excluded), in Times New Roman, size 12, will be sent by attachment to: carmen.vasile(at)unibuc.ro (Carmen Mîrzea Vasile), isabela.nedelcu(at)unibuc.ro (Isabela Nedelcu), rodica.zafiu(at)unibuc.ro (Rodica Zafiu).

Important dates:
Deadline for submissions: October 25, 2020
Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2020
Conference dates: November 20‒21, 2020