Attitudes to Prescriptivism
Pre-conference workshop 11 June 2013
Room: Lipsius 148
Conference programme (preliminary)
Prescription and Tradition in Language 1215June 2013
14.0017.00 Registration
Wednesday 12 June 2013
8.3010.00 Registration
10.0010.15 Conference opening
10.1511.00 Plenary: Carol Percy, Aristocratic influence and the English prescriptive tradition: Lord Chesterfield and his afterlives (Chair:
to be announced; room to be announced)
COFFEE/TEA
11.1511.45
st
1 morning session: Chair tba, room tba
1st morning session: Chair tba, room tba
Natalia Guermanova, The Principle of Iconicity in English
11.4512.15 Henri Le Prieult, What did custom mean for the first English
grammarians: a friend or a foe?
Prescriptive Grammar
Tim
Green,
Religious
Rhetoric
and
the
Rise
of
“ProtoKyoko Takashi Wilkerson and Douglas Wilkerson,
12.1512.45
prescriptivism” in Early Modern England
Democracy of Signs: Prescription and Liberty in Japanese
Names
Lunch
12.4514.00
st
1 afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
1st afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
Ahmed Kabel, Language planning through other means: the
14.0014.30 Don Chapman, Prescriptive rules as a tradition in the United
States
prescriptive authentification and purification of Standard
Amazigh
Matthijs
Smits,
‘Garnering’
Respect?:
The
Emergence
of
Heimir Freyr Viðarsson, The rise of standard Icelandic
14.3015.00
Authority in the American Usage Tradition
syntax in the 19th century: rewriting history
TEA/COFFEE
15.0015.30
2nd afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
2nd afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters, Negation and prescription
15.3016.00 María E. Rodríguez-Gil, Traits of prescriptivism in
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century treatises of English for
in the history of Dutch
Spanish speakers
16.0016.30 Dominik Banhold, German School Grammars as Norm
Setting Language Authorities in Nationalistic Germany of the
19th Century
16.3019.00
9.0010.00
10.0010.30
10.3011.00
11.0011.30
11.3012.00
Lars Hinrichs, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Axel Bohmann,
Unusually strong impact of prescriptive rules on language use:
The case of object-function restrictive relativizers in written
standard English
DRINKS
Thursday 13 June 2013
Plenary: Henning Klöter, “What is correct Chinese?” revisited (Chair: to be announced; room to be announced)
COFFEE/TEA
morning session: Chair tba, room tba
morning session: Chair tba, room tba
Andrea Nava and Luciana Pedrazzini, Exploring non-native Ekaterina Golovko and Valentina Di Fabio, Standardization
EFL trainee teachers’ attitudes towards linguistic
processes in Italian: neo-standard and non-standard features
prescriptivism in their L1 and L2
Ulrich Busse, The native speaker is dead vs. The native
Cristina Monzón, Pirecuas and dialectical variation, criteria
speaker is alive: Whose norms do ELFs need?
for a P’urhepecha standard
Katja Lochtman, Prescriptivism and sociolinguistic
Spiros A. Moschonas, Non-uniform standards: The case of
competence in German as a Foreign Language at University
Standard Modern Greek
Arto Mustajoki, Challenges in the standardization of
12.0012.30 Massimo Sturiale, Pedagogical Prescriptivism in Early 20thcentury Correspondence Language Courses. A Case Study: Il
contemporary Russian
Poliglotta Moderno (1905-1907)
LUNCH
12.3014.00
1st afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
1st afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
Hanna Rutkowska, Etymological spelling in thirteen editions
14.0014.30 Gabriela Dima, Prescription and Tradition in the Romanian
Literary Language
of The Kalender of Shepherdes
Danielle Candel, Prescription and tradition, from the
14.3015.00 Charlotte Brewer, Poets, grammars and dictionaries
French Dictionnaire de l’Académie (1635-) to the official
French language enrichment process (-2013)
Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,
15.0015.30 Rita Queiroz de Barros, “A higher standard of correctness
than is quite desirable”: Linguistic prescription in Dickens’s
The battle of prescriptivism: France vs England
journals
TEA/COFFEE
15.3016.00
nd
2 afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
2nd afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
16.0016.30 Alan Scott, Prescriptivism and self-regulation in language use
on German social media
16.3017.00 Viktorija Kostadinova, The Cyberstate of Language: Popular
Attitudes to English Language Use on the Internet
Kazuhiko Nakae, From Prescriptivism to Purism in
Multiglossic Arabic
Loreta Vaicekauskiene, Joining scholarship and state
standardization ideology: prescription as Soviet inheritance in
post-soviet Lithuania
19.0023.00 Conference dinner (registration required)
Friday 14 June 2013
Plenary:
Felix
Ameka,
The
uselessness
of
the
useful: between prescriptivism and practice (Chair: to be announced; room to be
9.0010.00
announced)
COFFEE/TEA
10.0010.30
morning session: Chair tba, room tba
morning session: Chair tba, room tba
Miren
Lourdes
Oñederra,
Basque
pronunciation:
dialectal
Mark Kaunisto, Guidebooks on English usage in light of
10.3011.00
richness vs. strength of the Standard in a minority language
corpus evidence: are the entries truly warranted?
11.0011.30 Aleksandra Gjurkova, Prescription and Language
Management in Macedonia
11.3012.00 Pieter Duijff, Towards a modern Frisian Standard
12.0013.30
13.3014.00
14.0014.30
14.3015.00
15.0015.30
15.3016.30
16.3017.00
Robin Straaijer, Perspectives on Prescriptivism: The
reception of English usage guides
Nadia Petrova, A comparative analysis of Russian and
English usage guides from the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries
LUNCH
afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
afternoon session: Chair tba, room tba
Dick Smakman, International definitions of the standard
Niina Hynninen, Language regulation in English as a lingua
language
franca: Negotiating acceptable language
Giedrius Tamaševičius, The ideological contexts of language Martin Gill, The discomfort of strangers: nostalgia, ideology
standardization in the media
and defence of the English speech community
Kanavillil Rajagopalan, The descriptive linguist’s dilemmas
Dace Strelēvica-Ošiņa, Human-oriented prescriptivism,
when confronted with the challenge of language planning
language-oriented prescriptivism, error-oriented
prescriptivism: some cross-cultural differences
TEA/COFFEE
Plenary: Florian Coulmas, Prescriptivism and writing systems (Chair: to be announced; room to be announced)
Conference closes
Public symposium (primarily in Dutch), Wie is de baas over taal? 15 June 2013
Klein Auditorium, Academiegebouw