Conference: Language, place and periphery
PROGRAMME
Book of Abstract
Can be downloaded here.
Conference venue
Copenhagen University, Njalsgade 136, 2300 Copenhagen S
Conference room 27.0.09
Conference room 27.0.17
Plenary room 22.0.11
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Conference fee: € 150 (DKK 1.116) including coffee and tea, lunch on the 18 and 19 January and conference dinner on the 18 January.
Plenary speakers
- David Britain, University of Bern (CH): R is for Rural: phonologically constructing the rural Other in Southern England
- Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (US): Chronotopes of Dialect Style
- Marie Maegaard, University of Copenhagen (DK): Standardization as sociolinguistic change – a comparative study of three traditional dialect areas
- Emma Moore, University of Sheffield (UK): The influence of place on language change: Similarities and differences across insular communities
- Pia Quist, University of Copenhagen (DK): Language and place - Linguistic variation in urban and rural Denmark
This conference focuses on sociolinguistic perspectives on place and periphery:
- Place & Belonging
- Periphery
- Language Ideologies
- Rurality
- Dialect and social media
- Dialect and migration
- Dialect and mobility
Local organizers
The conference is an end-of-project event organized by Dialect in the Periphery and Language and Place – Language Variation in Rural and Urban Denmark at University of Copenhagen, Section of Dialectology and the LANCHART Centre. The two projects will both finish in 2018 and the conference will mark this by bringing together scholars from similar fields of research.
Conference Venue
University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Njalsgade 136