THURSDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 2014 8.30 – 9.15 Registration: Jessop West Foyer (Ground Floor) 9.15 – 9.30 Welcome: Jackie Labbe, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) Exhibition Space G.01a 9.30 – 10.30 Plenary 1: Phil Withington (Sheffield) 'Aristocracy' and 'Democracy' in Early Modern England? Exhibition Space G.01a (Chair: Mark Faulkner) 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break: Jessop West Foyer (Ground Floor) Exhibition Space G.01b Chair: Christine Wallis Jessop West G.03 Chair: Mark Faulkner Jessop West SR07 (Level 4) Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice 11.00 – 11.30 Droit, puissance, or violence? Wielding the vocabulary of power in the acts of Jeanne de Penthièreve, duchess of Brittany, Erika Graham (York) Evidentiality and genre in Early Modern German: Insights from the GerManC corpus, Richard J. Whitt (Nottingham) Construction of power and worth in sixteenth-century bibles, Iona Hine (Sheffield) 11.30 – 12.00 Power of language, language of power: Reading Pintoin and Froissart, Katariina Nara (Aberystwyth) Introducing Genderscope: a tool for analysing representations of gender in the Early Modern Period, Heather Froehlich (Strathclyde) Anatomising the body politic: Crown and parliament in early 17th-century political dialogues, Cathy Shrank (Sheffield) 12.00 – 12.30 Identity, prestige and Local vs. national perspectives on ‘Barbarous names’ in guide-books standardisation in the teaching of French in England, 1650-1700, John Gallagher (Cambridge) 12.30 – 13.30 language shift in Ireland 18501890: New statistical approaches, Nicholas Wolf (New York University) Lunch: Exhibition Space G.01a Exhibition Space G.01b Chair: Catharina Peersman Jessop West G.03 Panel on Language Ideologies and Standardization: Part I Chair: Gijsbert Rutten 13.30 – 14.00 Languages of magical power in ancient Italy, Katherine McDonald (Cambridge) The ideological construction of Southern Dutch: Discourses of difference and decay, Rik Vosters (VUB) 14.00 – 14.30 More cutting than the sword: Verbal irony and ‘civilizing trends’ of power in late Old English society, Graham Williams (Sheffield) The power of purism: Rethinking language ideology in Flanders, Kevin Absillis (Antwerp) & Jürgen Jaspers (ULB) 14.30 – 15.00 Interpreting early French linguistic policy: the meaning and impact of François I’s Edict of VillersCotterêts, Joshua Bengough-Smith (Sheffield) (De)standardization in Flemish Belgium: Evidence from late 1970s TV fiction, Sarah Van Hoof (Oslo) 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break: Exhibition Space G.01a to the English Lakes (1750s to 1840s), Tony Fairman (Independent) Exhibition Space G.01b Chair: Tony Fairman Jessop West G.03 Panel on Language Ideologies and Standardization: Part II Chair: Gijsbert Rutten 15.30 – 16.00 Multilingualism and power: Codeswitching in Early Modern school drama, Aleksi Mäkilähde (Turku) The making of the Scandinavian languages, Ivar Berg (Trondheim) 16.00 – 16.30 John Foxe: ‘Tragedy’, performance and history in the Acts and Monuments’, Gavin SchwartzLeeper (Sheffield) Shifting ideologies of linguistic authority: Language, nation and citizenship in Luxembourg, Kristine Horner & Joanna Kremer (Sheffield) 16.30 – 17.00 ‘Brother’, ‘Sir’, or ‘You lying young fool’: Enacting power differences on the stage, Linnéa Anglemark (Uppsala) The instrumentalisation of past Russian language debates in present-day metadiscourse, Gesine Argent (Bristol) 17.00 – 17.15 Short Break 17.15 – 18.15 Plenary 2: Sharon Macdonald (York) Heritage, nostalgia and authenticity: commonalities and diversities in past-presencing in Europe Exhibition Space G.01a (Chair: Kristine Horner) 19.30 Conference Dinner: Loch Fyne Restaurant (Glossop Road) FRIDAY, 7 FEBURARY 2014 9.00 – 10.00 Plenary 3: Anita Auer (Utrecht) Strangers and aliens in Early Modern England Exhibition Space G.01a (Chair: Catharina Peersman) Exhibition Space G.01b Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice Jessop West G.03 Chair: Rik Vosters 10.00 – 10.30 Filthy and indecent words: The linguistic archaeology of insults and political subversion in the Low countries, 14th-16th centuries, Jelle Haemers (Leuven) Correctives: A sociolinguistic variable indexing prescriptivism, Spiros Moschonas (Athens) 10.30 – 11.00 The power of parts: The production of penis and vagina terms by college-aged students, Joanne Sampaio & Nandi Sims (Florida International) ‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in 21st century Britain, Joan Beal (Sheffield) 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break: Exhibition Space G.01a Exhibition Space G.01b Chair: Joanna Kremer 11.30 – 12.00 Jessop West G.03 Chair: Gijsbert Rutten FDR and a historical perspective on School reforms in 18th-century the language of power, Alex Austria: Their social, linguistic and Matthew Kunst (Helsinki) political outcomes, Anna Havinga (Bristol) Jessop West SR07 (Level 4) Chair: Mark Faulkner ‘The information of Thomas Dangerfield’: The language of conspiracy and the Restorationperiod debate, Mike Cressey (Durham) 12.00 – 12.30 Patterns in EU discourse about enlargement: framing inclusion and exclusion, Maria Varela (Independent) Historical discourses on language, education and power in Germanspeaking Belgium, Magali Boemer (Namur) Identity construction of witches in 18th century Hungarian witchcraft trials, Marton Petyko (Eötvös Loránd) 12.30 – 13.00 The discourse of power in Maori language revitalisation in New Zealand, Elisa Duder (AUT) Soviet attitudes to language and power in post-Soviet society: A case study of the Republic of Tatarstan, Teresa WigglesworthBaker (Sheffield) Censored letters from 19th century lunatic asylums: Institutional power and discourses on the language of social outsiders, Markus Schiegg (Augsburg) 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch: Exhibition Space G.01a Exhibition Space G.01b Chair: Kristine Horner Jessop West G.03 Chair: Catharina Peersman Jessop West SR07 (Level 4) Chair: Audrey Small 14.00 – 14.30 Discourses of legitimacy and power in early 20th century German anti-feminist rhetoric, Geraldine Horan (UCL) Correction and control in an AngloSaxon manuscript, Christine Wallis (Sheffield) The colonial legacy and the linguistic landscape Philippines, Stefanie Meier (Basel/Freiburg) 14.30 – 15.00 Language and National Socialism: The inner exile experience, William Dodd (Birmingham) The Death of Old English: linguistic destandardisation in twelfthcentury England, Mark Faulkner (Sheffield) Greetings from the tower of Babel: The discourse on language and power in German colonialism, Doris Stolberg (Mannheim) 15.30 – 16.00 History – power – discourse: The construction and interpretation of historical discourses as hegemonic ‘Could you not, in speaking, correct your native accent?’: Marking the boundary between standard and Aristide and the French press: An insight into neo-colonial culture in contemporary France, Sophie Watt discourses, Ruth Mell (IDS Mannheim) non-standard in British fiction 1800-1836, Jane Hodson (Sheffield) (Sheffield) 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break: Exhibition Space G.01a 16.30 – 17.30 Plenary 4: Nils Langer (Bristol) Language conflicts in the German-Danish borderlands Exhibition Space G.01a (Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice) 17.30 Close of Conference: Exhibition Space G.01a