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). |
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). |
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)
Alexander Bergs (Universität Osnabrück, Germany). |
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| 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. |