Hison 2016 abstracts General sessions + Panels (The Role of Education in the Standardization of Language, Historical Code-switching and Multilingualism)
Schedule outline
Wednesday, 9 March
18.00-20.00 Reception (5th floor lobby, Unioninkatu 40, Helsinki city center)
Thursday, 10 march
9-10.30 Registration & coffee
10.30-11.30 Opening + Plenary 1 (Prof. Marijke van der Wal, University of Leiden, Crossing linguistic boundaries: migration and multilingualism in Early and Late Modern times. Abstract )
11.30-13.00 Sessions 1a and 1b
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Sessions 2a and 2b
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.30 Sessions 3a and 3b
19.00-> Conference dinner
Friday, 11 March
9-10.30 Sessions 4a and 4b
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 Sessions 5a and 5b
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Sessions 6a and 6b
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 Sessions 7a and 7b
17.00-18.00 Closing + Plenary 2 (Prof. Jukka Tyrkkö, University of Tampere, On the (Changing) Sociolinguistics of Political Language: From the Queen’s Speech to Trump on Twitter. Abstract )
Posters
- “Interfacing structured and unstructured data in sociolinguistic research on language change” by Katja Litola, Taru Nordlund and Johanna Utriainen.
- “Linguistic change in its social contexts in eighteenth-century English” by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin, Tanja Säily, Mikko Hakala, Samuli Kaislaniemi, Mikko Laitinen, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Anni Sairio (University of Helsinki).
- “Language Change Database: a new online resource” by Terttu Nevalainen, Tanja Säily and Turo Vartiainen (University of Helsinki).
- “Paul Sinebrychoff’s Swedish business letters 1895-1909” by Hanna Lehti-Eklund and Beatrice Silén
- “Studying 18th and 19th Century Finnish Letters Written in French” by Juhani Härmä.
- “Tagging Dialectal Morphology to Early Modern Finnish News Paper Corpus” by Antti Kanner.