Historical Sociolinguistics
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MSCA-2020-RVosters01
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Project description
As historical sociolinguistics is currently one of the strategic research priorities of VUB (‘SRP growth funding’), we welcome experienced researchers to work on any aspect of historical sociolinguistics, including (but not limited to) language history from below, standardization, language variation and change, language contact or historical multilingualism, the relationship between norms and usage, orality and literacy in historical data, historical language policy and language planning, etc. Our team mostly works on the historical sociolinguistics of Dutch, but any proposal within the field would be more than welcome if it is more theoretically, methodologically or comparatively oriented. Previous and current projects on historical sociolinguistics at our center have focused, for instance, on norm implementation in top-down standardization; norms, orality and literacy in nineteenth-century pauper letters and other writings from below; French- Dutch language contact; language choice in social domains from a LPP perspective; pluricentricity and pluriareality in Dutch language history; etc. Researchers interested to work on lstandardization as a historical process are particularly invited to apply.
About the research Group
Centre for Linguistics (CLIN)
CLIN is part of the Linguistics and Literary Studies department (LIST) within the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. The main objective of CLIN is to promote research in theoretical and applied linguistics and the application of this research in the wider society. Research at CLIN addresses a broad spectrum of issues related to the structure, use, learning and teaching, impairment, historical development, and the social and political contexts of languages. Recent work includes studies on morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, sociohistorical linguistics, bilingualism and bilingual education, aphasia, childhood speech and language disorders, second language acquisition, and methodology and practice in language teaching. Applications of research at CLIN include consultancy for private and public organisations in the areas of language and education policy, curriculum design, language teaching material development, language assessment, speech pathology, and natural language processing. Furthermore, the research centre hosts the Werkgroep Over Taal (WOT), a platform for the collaborative interchange of knowledge via presentations and workshops by international (guest-)speakers covering a wide variety of linguistic topics.