6th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics
9 – 16 August, 2012
Frauenchiemsee, Bavaria, Germany

This is the sixth summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) and it will offer classes by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguistics. The venue is the abbey of Frauenwörth on the island of Frauenchiemsee (Lake Chiemsee, Bavaria). Classes will take place in the morning and afternoon and you will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session. Our teachers and modules in 2012 will be

• Richard Watts (Bern)
  Historical Linguistics as the Exercise of Social Power:
  Decontextualization and Recontextualization, Decentering and Recentering
  
  
• Mari Jones (Cambridge)
  Language Death & Historical Sociolinguistics on Channel Island French
  
  
• Magnus Huber (Gießen)
  The Sociolinguistic Potential of the Old Bailey Corpus – Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  
  
• Helmut Graser (Augsburg) & Ann Tlusty (Bucknell)
  History of the German Language 'From Below': Archival Sources from the 16th and 17th Centuries
  
  
• Joan Beal (Sheffield)
  Enregisterment and Historical Sociolinguistics
  
  
• Mark Richard Lauersdorf (Kentucky)
  Dialect Continua, Political Borders, Standard Languages – Data, Interpretation, Visualization
  
  
• Kristine Horner (Sheffield)
  Social and Critical Approaches to Multilingualism from Past to Present
  

The school will last for one week and will cost €495, which includes accommodation, three meals per day, tuition, and an excursion. If you pay in full by May 1st, you will get a discount of €50. We would like to point out that we're not making a profit from this and neither organisers nor teachers get a fee for their work.