Official Program for the
2022 NARNiHS Research Incubator
North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
2022 Research Incubator
Entirely online via video-conference!
co-located at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference – University of Kentucky
Thursday Morning, 21 April 2022 – all times are U.S. Eastern Time
The historical sociolinguistics of historically remote corpora
Chair: Sandrine Tailleur, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
09:30 – Graphic, Graphemic, Orthographic, and Linguistic Variables in the Accession Statements in Classic Mayan Texts
David Mora-Marín, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
10:00 – Use and social functions of epistolary formulae: investigating everyday letters from sixteenth century Tuscany
Eleonora Serra, Ghent University
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion (incubation of ideas from the panel)
[1 hour] led by Sandrine Tailleur, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Friday Morning, 22 April 2022 – all times are U.S. Eastern Time
The historical sociolinguistics of language discourses and individual identity
Chair: Carolina Amador-Moreno, Universitetet i Bergen
09:30 – “Quaker Speak” in 19th-century patient letters from the York Retreat
Julian Mader, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
10:00 – A corpus-based investigation of thanks, thank you, and ta: gender variation and change in the years 1994 and 2014
Ljubica Leone, University of Lancaster
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion (incubation of ideas from the panel)
[1 hour] led by Carolina Amador-Moreno, Universitetet i Bergen
Saturday Morning, 23 April 2022 – all times are U.S. Eastern Time
The historical sociolinguistics of European immigration in the Americas
Chair: Israel Sanz-Sánchez, West Chester University
09:30 – Immigration, social movements, and pronoun address variation in the city of Santos
Victor Carreão, State University of Campinas
10:00 – The Language of the early 20th-century Serbian newspapers in the USA
Jelena Vujić and Aleksandar Milanović, University of Belgrade
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Collaborative Brainstorming and Collective Discussion (incubation of ideas from the panel)
[1 hour] led by: Israel Sanz-Sánchez, West Chester University