Program: NARNiHS 2024

Official Program for NARNiHS 2024

Sixth Annual Meeting
North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics

A Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
[ go to the site of the LSA 2024 Annual Meeting ]

After three all-online editions, the NARNiHS Annual Meeting is back in person!

==> Find the NARNiHS 2024 program also in the full LSA program.


Thursday, 4 January 2024

Session 1
Time:  15:00–16:30 (New York)
Location:  Murray Hill, Lower Level
Chair:  Kelly Elizabeth Wright (Virginia Polytechnic University, USA)

15:00 Reconstructing historical sociolinguistic contact landscapes: Assessing metalinguistic evidence from Mexico-Tenochtitlan (1524-1630).  [abstract]
Israel Sanz-Sánchez (West Chester University, USA).
15:30 Context matters: a comparison of lexical borrowing in 19th – 20th century American-Flemish heritage newspapers and ego-documents.  [abstract]
Yasmin Crombez (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) – Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (FWO), Belgium).
16:00 Phonological variation in Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: Orthographic evidence from three 18th–20th century pop lit texts.  [abstract]
Uri Horesh (University of Essex, Great Britain).

Thursday, 4 January 2024

Session 2
Time:  16:30-17:30 (New York)
Location:  Murray Hill, Lower Level
Chair:  Laura Moquin (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

16:30 Religious influences in Spanish diachronic semantic change.  [abstract]
Aaron Yamada (Creighton University, USA).
17:00 Por tanto, a VS suplico: The functions of discourse markers in Colonial Louisiana Spanish.  [abstract]
Jeremy King (Louisiana State University, USA).
17:30 The Broadcast of TV3 in the Catalan-Speaking Lands: Questioning Sociolinguistic Naturalism with Pompeu Fabra and The Royal Chancellery.
Vicente Lledó-Guillem (Hofstra University, USA).

Friday, 5 January 2024

Session 3
Time:  12:00-13:30 (New York)
Location:  Murray Hill, Lower Level
Chair:  Israel Sanz-Sánchez (West Chester University, USA)

12:00 “The brogue is common everywhere in Ireland, but you are taught to avoid it in reading”: notions of correctness and speakers’ attitudes in nineteenth century Ireland.  [abstract]
Carolina Amador Moreno (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain and Universitetet i Bergen, Norway).
12:30 Uncovering agents of implementation in Chile: the role of primary school supervisors in the negotiation of a standard language regime between 1852-1861.  [abstract]
Tania Avilés Vergara (Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile / ANID – Fondecyt Iniciación 11230628).
13:00 “Ai miei bravi soldati”: Linguistic Ideologies and Colonial Pedagogies in Italian-occupied East Africa (1885-1947).  [abstract]
Kevin Martín (University of California, Berkeley, USA).

Friday, 5 January 2024

Session 4
Time:  13:45-14:45 (New York)
Location:  Murray Hill, Lower Level
Chair:  Sandrine Tailleur (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada)

13:45 The Verticalization of African American Sociolinguistic Labor.  [abstract]
Kelly Elizabeth Wright (Virginia Polytechnic University, USA).
14:15 “The actual words of the witness were not included”: credibility, accuracy, and verbatimness in 18th and 19th century Flemish courtroom records.  [abstract]
Magda Serwadczak, Rik Vosters, Mieke Vandenbroucke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium).
14:45 « Ça va venir découragez-vous pas » : La Bolduc singer, from textual to oral sources.
France Martineau and Nikita Kamblé-Bagal (University of Ottawa, Canada).

Friday, 5 January 2024

Session 5
Time:  15:00-16:00 (New York)
Location:  Murray Hill, Lower Level
Chair:  Carolina Amador-Moreno (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain and Universitetet i Bergen, Norway)

15:30 “‘Oh, because.’ That’s a girl’s reason, and it’s a funny one.” (Brooks 1911) Gender, power relations, and stand-alone because in late Modern English.
Alexander Bergs (Universität Osnabrück, Germany).
15:00 Concluding remarks and NARNiHS General Meeting  (open to all).
Sandrine Tailleur (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada).
Note that this meeting is planned for one hour.