2nd Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics
August 7 – August 13, 2008
University of Bristol

with
Joseph Salmons (UW Madison):
Historical language contact: German and English in the American Midwest

Mair Parry (Bristol) & Stephen Milner (Manchester):
Communicative strategies in medieval Italian society

David Willis (Cambridge):
Language contact and maintenance in the Celtic countries

Wim Vandenbussche (VU Brussels):
Language, nation and social struggle: the Belgian case

Derek Offord (Bristol):
Language and National Identity in Russia

Thomas Sokoll (Hagen) & Stephan Elspaß (Augsburg):
The labour of language and the language of labour: letters from the labouring poor in nineteenth-century England and Germany

Joachim Scharloth (Zurich) & Martin Klimke (Washington / Heidelberg):
Speaking about History: Historical and Linguistic Dimensions of Oral History



This is the second summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) and it will offer classes by leading historians with an interest in language and sociolinguists with an interest in history. There will be seven teaching units in which you will explore a number of issues relating to the different methods, intellectual premises, and disciplinary frameworks of pure historians and historical sociolinguists working on a range of European languages and historical periods. There will be six hours of teaching per day, complemented by discussion groups sessions during which you can present your own research. There will only be space for 45 graduate students and young researchers, so you are advised to book early.

Contact
Nils Langer, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK,
nils.langer@bris.ac.uk